Jane Austen Heroines - Are You Lizzie, Emma or Marianne? | A Video Essay Quiz

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Get 25% off an annual membership of CuriosityStream: curiositystream.com/thetake | Are you a clever Lizzie Bennet, a passionate Marianne Dashwood, or a slightly spoiled but generous Emma Woodhouse? In her six published novels, Jane Austen created some of the most iconic female characters of all time. Each complex heroine represents distinct strengths, motivations, and obstacles to overcome -- some of which are laid out in the very titles of the books. Thus, identifying which Austen character you’re most like can help you see both what you’re best at and which defining lesson you need to learn -- whether that’s to rethink your snap judgments, reign in your emotional nature, not be so open to influence, or check your privilege. So, which Jane Austen heroine would you be?
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  • @thetake
    @thetake3 жыл бұрын

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  • @abrilmolina5012
    @abrilmolina50123 жыл бұрын

    All I know is that I have the social skills of Mr Darcy

  • @monicacreator3168

    @monicacreator3168

    3 жыл бұрын

    So a Mary?

  • @xtxpxhx

    @xtxpxhx

    3 жыл бұрын

    And none of his wealth 😢

  • @chongmcafee3799

    @chongmcafee3799

    3 жыл бұрын

    ..but what about the noble mien and tall, dark keen eyes, and that dark wavy hair?!

  • @ineffablemars

    @ineffablemars

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @natsurf

    @natsurf

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeap. And Mrs Bennet sense of humour

  • @luisenrich5436
    @luisenrich54363 жыл бұрын

    I am Charlotte Lucas because I am twenty-one years old, I've no money and no prospects. I'm already a burden to my parents and I am frightened.

  • @kaoribecerril8342

    @kaoribecerril8342

    3 жыл бұрын

    hahahahahaha girl, I'm 25 in th same position hahahaha don't dispair

  • @annaniezgodzka1101

    @annaniezgodzka1101

    3 жыл бұрын

    You're 21, you're hardly an adult. I am sorry to hear you feel you're a burden to your parents. No one should feel that way ever.

  • @jlshadday6401

    @jlshadday6401

    3 жыл бұрын

    Omg! Charlotte is the most relatable!!

  • @NC-ij9rb

    @NC-ij9rb

    3 жыл бұрын

    Charlote was 27!!! 😂😂😂✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️

  • @triumphofmagic

    @triumphofmagic

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same, but 35 - which is much worse, apparently.

  • @fran-uq4vw
    @fran-uq4vw3 жыл бұрын

    "Are you Lizzie, Emma, Marianne or Elinor?" im a family disappointment

  • @trinaq

    @trinaq

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nice one, some of us might sadly relate to that as well, so perhaps we're Lydias?!

  • @rebekkhagill5766

    @rebekkhagill5766

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@trinaq lol WHERE MY LYDIAS AT?!?!

  • @Visplight

    @Visplight

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ann Elliot's family don't approve of her much.

  • @JoaoPessoa86

    @JoaoPessoa86

    3 жыл бұрын

    so a Lydia?

  • @deeplydeepali

    @deeplydeepali

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Visplight i love her!

  • @carrisebear3499
    @carrisebear34993 жыл бұрын

    I do like that she writes manly gentlemen that have patience, strength, character, and love in their hearts without being pushovers or domineering.

  • @DizzyBusy

    @DizzyBusy

    2 жыл бұрын

    And a particularly lovely one who understands muslin!

  • @2degucitas

    @2degucitas

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DizzyBusy How does knowledge of muslin give advantage to a man?

  • @mishynaofficial

    @mishynaofficial

    4 ай бұрын

    Mr. Knightley is patronising and mr. Darcy is a douche, probably a narcissist.

  • @XanderShiller
    @XanderShiller3 жыл бұрын

    Why aren't female characters written this well in most movies

  • @kahkah1986

    @kahkah1986

    3 жыл бұрын

    Because the writers aren't usually female? And if they are, the directors and producers often aren't, so a lot of the nuance gets lost to appeal to the Male audience/ gaze.

  • @sarahe1491

    @sarahe1491

    3 жыл бұрын

    men

  • @noble_experiment

    @noble_experiment

    3 жыл бұрын

    As others have already pointed out, I’ve always related and loved female characters written by female writers than the ones written by male writers. Kind of odd.

  • @kahkah1986

    @kahkah1986

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sarahe1491 although tbf Austen is in the same league as Shakespeare, that is a very high standard for other writers...

  • @groolchick2

    @groolchick2

    3 жыл бұрын

    Women know how to write women lol

  • @paulojrneto
    @paulojrneto3 жыл бұрын

    I'm a Mary, the Bennett sister that nobody gives a toss about. Mary is the less attractive and more socially awkward version of Elizabeth.

  • @Lowlight91

    @Lowlight91

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also, I’m terrible at the piano, but I keep trying anyway 😂

  • @roy.shrestha

    @roy.shrestha

    3 жыл бұрын

    SAME LOL

  • @elenamitchell

    @elenamitchell

    3 жыл бұрын

    Please read “The Other Bennet Sister” by Janice Hallow. I am begging you

  • @AnnaWoodliff

    @AnnaWoodliff

    3 жыл бұрын

    hahaha love this. YES when I saw the scene in the Keira Knightley movie where all the Bennett sisters are sitting together wearing pastels and Mary is in black not smiling I thought oh look there's me.

  • @deanaryapotter3530

    @deanaryapotter3530

    3 жыл бұрын

    She was stupid did you read the book?

  • @michaelamitchell8151
    @michaelamitchell81513 жыл бұрын

    I’m probably not the main character of her book . I’m probably Mary from pride and prejudices

  • @ham5097

    @ham5097

    3 жыл бұрын

    same

  • @zainss9626

    @zainss9626

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @cappucappu9441

    @cappucappu9441

    3 жыл бұрын

    Literally what I was thinking

  • @emilycurtis4398

    @emilycurtis4398

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mary is such a sweet nerd. I love her.

  • @misspeaches1144

    @misspeaches1144

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mary is super smart and talented ❤️

  • @i.am.10vely
    @i.am.10vely3 жыл бұрын

    I think the beauty of Jane Austen's heroines is how we can identify with different characteristics of all of them on different levels, even though we are all different people and so are the heroines. That's her genius. Her characters were all relatable in some way and taught us something beautiful about ourselves, but also our flaws, and that we don't have to be afraid of admitting them, and improving on them to become better people. All of them were my role models when I was a teenager and still are, and they heavily influenced who I became as a person. My best qualities I learned from them, and I'll always be grateful to Jane Austen for these masterpieces she created 200 years ago, that still resonate with us so much, and are so true to human nature, no matter what time we live in.

  • @Evey94Marti

    @Evey94Marti

    3 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful point, I thought similar things: Aren't we all them and at the same time none of them really?

  • @GbyP
    @GbyP3 жыл бұрын

    Lizzie:"You are the last man I would ever prevail upon to marry" Mr.Darcy: *Thoughts* Why did she reject me? I just insulted her status, family and everything she cares about ?

  • @2degucitas

    @2degucitas

    2 жыл бұрын

    Mr Darcy: Goes off to pine and think about what she said

  • @mishynaofficial

    @mishynaofficial

    4 ай бұрын

    Fitzwilliam "Clueless" Darcy

  • @allisonfitzmaurice6948
    @allisonfitzmaurice69483 жыл бұрын

    The thing is that Lizzy/Jane or Marianne/Elinor are just two sides of the same coin. Lizzy and Marianne are what a lot of women feel on the inside but Jane and Elinor are what we sometimes feel compelled to be for self preservation or safety’s sake.

  • @kahkah1986

    @kahkah1986

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think it's more than just self preservation though, it is to do with being older and wiser, genuinely more aware of social realities. Elinor is the only one who appreciates their financial position, for example, while Jane understands someone like Darcy may have positive as well as negative pride, that Mr Collins is not the worst man anyone could ever marry (Wickham would be worse), that people can be kind as well as enjoy the schadenfreude etc. Jane voices a lot of Austens's commentary in PP.

  • @prsent7787

    @prsent7787

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nah, I'm Jane/Elinor on the inside but feel like I have to be like Marianne/Lizzie and I'm just not.

  • @360shadowmoon

    @360shadowmoon

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kahkah1986 Part of it is also, as the video points out, that the eldest children shoulder some of the burdens the younger siblings don't have to, like getting married to save the family property. Lizzie. Emma, and Marianne definitely benefit from being younger siblings.

  • @appletree6898

    @appletree6898

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was a full Marianne when I was younger but have learned over time to be more like Elinor.

  • @zurzakne-etra7069

    @zurzakne-etra7069

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm Anne, with my timidness, but I think I'm probably meaner than anne lols

  • @PokhrajRoy.
    @PokhrajRoy.3 жыл бұрын

    If only Austen had more books published, it would be such a lovely and extensive video.

  • @lydiawalker0714

    @lydiawalker0714

    3 жыл бұрын

    You can always read her short stories. Lady Susan is one of her best. The protagonist is like an older, more malicious version of Emma.

  • @speagle318

    @speagle318

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or if they’d spent maybe a little bit more time on Catherine and Fanny lol

  • @PokhrajRoy.

    @PokhrajRoy.

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@speagle318 Maybe.

  • @katherinemorelle7115

    @katherinemorelle7115

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@speagle318 Fanny is my favourite Austen heroine. Likely because she’s who I identify with the most. Lizzy and Emma get all the glory, but I wish we appreciated Fanny more.

  • @lindsaymorrison7519

    @lindsaymorrison7519

    3 жыл бұрын

    They specifically focused on just three characters, but there are a lot more

  • @RebelScum011
    @RebelScum0113 жыл бұрын

    I’d love a video on “Which Bronte Heroine Are You”.

  • @kahkah1986

    @kahkah1986

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh yes, that would be awesome!!!

  • @Firegen1

    @Firegen1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Are you an Agnes, a Catherine, a Lucy, a Catherine, an Anne, a Catherine? 😅

  • @leriava

    @leriava

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Firegen1 what about Jane Eyre? She's my favorite

  • @kahkah1986

    @kahkah1986

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Firegen1 A Lucy probably...

  • @Firegen1

    @Firegen1

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@leriava She ran away apparently. She was in my first edit but I think I accidently nixxed her. On the upside Jane is pretty much the only one most people have read/know of so it would be interesting to dive into all four writers more in depth

  • @leriava
    @leriava3 жыл бұрын

    I don't even need to watch to know that I'm Anne Elliot. She's so underrated. I need a good adaptation!

  • @melenatorr

    @melenatorr

    3 жыл бұрын

    There is one: the 1995 version with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds.

  • @thenewkhan4781

    @thenewkhan4781

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@melenatorr It's a nice adaptation but not the best it could be, it lacks a lot of nuances of the book. I wish BBC would finally do a decent mini series of this novel.

  • @leriava

    @leriava

    3 жыл бұрын

    There's another one from 2007 I think. With Sally Hawkins. But it's not really that good. I want one like the new Emma. Faithful to original and pretty to look at

  • @GrainneMhaol

    @GrainneMhaol

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@thenewkhan4781 The 1971 version is a decent mini-series, if a little creaky. The 2007 version is godawful. My favourite is the 1995 version.

  • @leslievanhouten

    @leslievanhouten

    3 жыл бұрын

    There’s a new version being filmed right now. The woman in Succession will be Anne. I’m not sure who is Capt Wentworth

  • @godlesslippillow
    @godlesslippillow3 жыл бұрын

    For the Emma segment it confused the heckin heck out of me when they said “her mother is dead, and her older sister is married” and they showed Miss Taylor walking down the aisle I was like “That’s Not ISABELLA!”

  • @gigirauchut1882

    @gigirauchut1882

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah same that threw me for a loop lmao

  • @amandaisabelle9077

    @amandaisabelle9077

    3 жыл бұрын

    Poor miss Taylor indeed then!

  • @360shadowmoon

    @360shadowmoon

    3 жыл бұрын

    I actually tend to forget Emma has a sister! And yes they showed the wrong character in the video.

  • @godlesslippillow

    @godlesslippillow

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@amandaisabelle9077 Poor Isabella!

  • @sarahtalone7031

    @sarahtalone7031

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@amandaisabelle9077 in Mr. Woodhouse's voice: POOR MISS TAYLOR!

  • @jenna.livingston
    @jenna.livingston3 жыл бұрын

    I thought I was a Lizzie, but Myers-Briggs told me I'm actually a Mr. Darcy. Close enough.

  • @laurendavis7337

    @laurendavis7337

    3 жыл бұрын

    Another INTJ? If I’m not mistaken, that’s thought to be Austen’s own MBTI type.

  • @jenna.livingston

    @jenna.livingston

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@laurendavis7337 Yup! :) I'm in good company!

  • @kaitlynhall2112

    @kaitlynhall2112

    3 жыл бұрын

    INTJ here too! We should start a club

  • @cynthiapereira8403

    @cynthiapereira8403

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lizzie is an ENFP, and there are a lot of similarities in the way INTJs and ENFPs think.

  • @jenna.livingston

    @jenna.livingston

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cynthiapereira8403 My boyfriend of six years is an ENFP, how funny

  • @trinaq
    @trinaq3 жыл бұрын

    I love that many Hollywood films take inspiration from Austen's works, and even have updated versions. "Clueless" is a 90's Valley Girl version of "Emma", while "Bridget Jones' Diary" is essentially "Pride and Prejudice", with Mr Darcy himself playing unlikely hero Mark Darcy! ♥️

  • @catofthecastle1681

    @catofthecastle1681

    3 жыл бұрын

    That would be so cool if you had named the others!

  • @chioorochi

    @chioorochi

    3 жыл бұрын

    From prada to nada is a modern version of Sense and sensibility as well :)

  • @tyrant-den884

    @tyrant-den884

    3 жыл бұрын

    As much as I *love* Colin Firth in that movie, I will never forgive whomever thought it was a good idea to convert one of the greatest works of wit into an awkward British 00's cringe comedy.

  • @jessicavictoriacarrillo7254

    @jessicavictoriacarrillo7254

    3 жыл бұрын

    Except Bridget seemed to lack Elizabeth's brains

  • @superedmundo1239

    @superedmundo1239

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jessicavictoriacarrillo7254 Not really her brains, I just think she really fucks up when she's nervous.

  • @samanthaanne348
    @samanthaanne3483 жыл бұрын

    I'm an Elinor who really wants to be a Lizzie.

  • @salma-4618

    @salma-4618

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same here :(

  • @maggiemcfly5267

    @maggiemcfly5267

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same! 😂

  • @abbyblack

    @abbyblack

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @amelienolasco6497

    @amelienolasco6497

    3 жыл бұрын

    Omg I literally said that as I clicked on the video 😂😂

  • @connieminaca5321

    @connieminaca5321

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm a Marianne who wishes she was an Elinor!

  • @thereselim1355
    @thereselim13553 жыл бұрын

    I was an Emma in my teen years then slowly morphed into Lizzie in my 20s. Who knows which one I’m gonna become next probably Mrs. Bennet

  • @konraddygudaj257
    @konraddygudaj2573 жыл бұрын

    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • @trinaq

    @trinaq

    3 жыл бұрын

    She's definitely one of my favourite authors. Austen was witty and articulate, a woman well ahead of her time! ♥️

  • @emilycurtis4398

    @emilycurtis4398

    3 жыл бұрын

    @bluegreenplanet89 Caroline's bitchiness is impressive

  • @excellentboiledpotato1667

    @excellentboiledpotato1667

    3 жыл бұрын

    "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

  • @Actually_Woke_6277

    @Actually_Woke_6277

    2 жыл бұрын

    Caroline Bingley said that

  • @zacharywinograd2647

    @zacharywinograd2647

    2 жыл бұрын

    This comment is a year old, but I love that Miss Bingley says this but has no true interest in reading. She says it only to impress Mr. Darcy who had commented on Lizzie’s enjoyment of reading. Miss Bingley was the OG pick me girl

  • @emanomer2288
    @emanomer22883 жыл бұрын

    "as logical as you consider yourself you are invested in a true romantic love an won't settle for less" yup I am definitely a Lizzy looking for a kind man

  • @whatsername6973

    @whatsername6973

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same 😂

  • @EEVictory13
    @EEVictory133 жыл бұрын

    I read all of Austen once a year. She was so far ahead of her time and her ability to capture human nature in her characters was amazing. Witty, intelligent, but still so light hearted at times. Although I skip the beginning of Sense and Sensibility because their brother and his wife are the worst.

  • @kazza6078
    @kazza60783 жыл бұрын

    Me, realizing I'm a Marianne: It's fine i just need to stand out in the rain in my feelings for a bit

  • @yula3723

    @yula3723

    2 ай бұрын

    Same girl, same❤

  • @leftpawedpolarbear
    @leftpawedpolarbear3 жыл бұрын

    I always forget how absolutely hilarious Catherine Moreland is and also Northanger Abbey in general

  • @user-rs7xf5tm9s

    @user-rs7xf5tm9s

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ikr

  • @MsDonttrythisathome
    @MsDonttrythisathome3 жыл бұрын

    None of these. I'm Anne, of Persuasion, with a little of Lizzie's wit and perhaps Lydia's foolishness, and Mary's well-developed capacity for being a bore

  • @komal146

    @komal146

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'd argue that Mary wasn't the bore. She was such a plain yet intresting silent protagonist.

  • @kahkah1986

    @kahkah1986

    3 жыл бұрын

    I always think Fanny Price is Mary Bennet's side of the story, and Mary Crawford is how she sees Elizabeth, energetic but a bit amoral.

  • @i.am.10vely

    @i.am.10vely

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mary was only boring to other people, but she thought herself very interesting, and stayed true to herself and that's what counts :)

  • @MsDonttrythisathome

    @MsDonttrythisathome

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kahkah1986 That's an interesting opinion on Elizabeth. How is she amoral? (Genuinely curious)

  • @kahkah1986

    @kahkah1986

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MsDonttrythisathome well, if you were an outsider, like Fanny is, you could point out how Lizzie only falls in love with Mr Darcy when she realises how wealthy he is, she even jokes about his beautiful grounds. Before that she flirted with Wickham, a man she had no real intention of marrying because they were both poor, as she does to a certain extent with Colonel Fitzwilliam. Her definition of a 'marrying very well' to Jane is jokey, but it is financial, as much as it is emotional. Later, she gets upset about Lydia running away and ruining her reputation, and she is pleased when Darcy gets Lydia married off, despite everything she knows about Wickham and the way he has slept with everyone in her village, because of how it now looks to the outside world - that's the only marriage Lydia could make for the foreseeable future. Right or wrong is not the crux of the story, it is hushing up the scandal - Lizzie is not supposed to be read as entirely without a moral compass, but a less sympathetic novel that didn't follow Lizzie's thoughts would show her pragmatism more clearly. In the same way, Mary Crawford is worried about public scandal, not what's really happening or how people really feel hurt by immorality. Like Mary Crawford, Lizzie's sexual attractiveness gives her power that is disproportionate to her social standing. Men like Darcy ignore grumpy old Lady Catherine and her stuffy views, but he is literally bewitched by Lizzie's fine eyes. PP is funny because there is that unsubtle contrast between Lizzie, who at the start of the novel appears very egalitarian and trusting of Wickham over the wealthy Darcy, but by the end is pretty much siding with Darcy that her family is an embarrassment and sophisticated people are the only way to go. Darcy's love for her on the other hand is transgressive because it is based on physical and emotional needs, rather than pure logic, they drive him to be more egalitarian and to be more radical in rejecting the expectations for him to ignore these feelings and marry wealth. Literally, they balance each other out so much that society doesn't change by their bending of the rules; their marriage is a weird nonrevolutionary revolution. Lizzie's choices therefore do work in the context of the novel, which is relaxed about wealth generally, whilst encouraging the removal of unnecessary social boundaries around love and marriage but *only for people like Lizzie who have proved by their sexiness and pizzazz to deserve it*, while MP brings up uncomfortable realities of that kind of attitude, really everyone should have some rights. MP looks at slavery, the boundaries of marriage, class etc. as examples of worrying trends in institutions, and in Mary's case the limits to the power bewitching sexiness can give you if other people still judge you.

  • @tatianasolsrud9077
    @tatianasolsrud90773 жыл бұрын

    I actually love Fanny. She is one of my favorite characters. She is so brave in a quiet way. I think she is very underrated

  • @staffanlindstrom576

    @staffanlindstrom576

    2 жыл бұрын

    It´s a pity she is such a bore.

  • @haira-hcomsomderobg4773

    @haira-hcomsomderobg4773

    Жыл бұрын

    I love her with all my heart

  • @zhenya1173
    @zhenya11733 жыл бұрын

    Brought you timestamps 2:04 Lizzie (Pride and predjudice) 5:52 Emma (Emma) 11:00 Marianne (Sense and sensitivity) 15:40 Elinor (S&s) and Jane (P&p) 18:00 Anne (Persuasion) 20:39 Catherine (Northanger abbey) 21:36 Fanny (Mansfield park)

  • @martinajohnson
    @martinajohnson3 жыл бұрын

    I wish people would talk more about Fanny Price. She's such a fascinating character to me.

  • @rbck8826

    @rbck8826

    2 жыл бұрын

    You do know she is the least liked out of all Austen heroine's?

  • @lagueranona4254

    @lagueranona4254

    2 жыл бұрын

    Being a lot like Fanny Price myself, it means a lot to me that someone as brilliant, witty, and engaging as Jane Austen could see worth in the kind of woman who in most stories would be a background character. She saw heroism where most people would see dullness. She takes notice of longsuffering kindness, goodness, and trueness to one's values. Not everyone can be dazzling, take command of a conversation, play verbal ju-jitsu with their frenemies like the sparkling Lizzie Bennet (who is still my favorite to read or watch). But it doesn't mean there's no value in Fanny's virtues. Maybe they're less rewarded in the 21st century than they were in the 19th. But we still need people who will be good to others and keep their integrity even when life really sucks.

  • @mrs.manrique7411

    @mrs.manrique7411

    Жыл бұрын

    Mansfield Park is my favorite novel of Jane Austen’s. I think it’s crazy that no adaptation has sought to explore malnourishment in Fanny’s character and how it’s long term physical effects impact her ability to fight. Everyone’s fine writing about cancer patients nowadays, I don’t see the issue with writing a sick main character who has to conserve her energy for the most important fights of her life.

  • @TheMagicAround

    @TheMagicAround

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mrs.manrique7411 I'm re-reading Mansfield park just now. And this VERY hard to film. There is hell of A LOT happening without dialogs. Up to the middle of the book where Fanny-Crawford thing starts - there are a lot left out. If you film Mansfield, you have to basically write a ton of dialogs out of nowhere for charackters like Maria, Julia, to find a basis for Mary Crawford's love for Edmund or Bertram sisters for Henry Crawford, ect. ect. And in the end make Edmund&Fanny happy end plausible, because he sees her as a sister through the whole book! and she IS his sister

  • @msnorringtonsims6536
    @msnorringtonsims65363 жыл бұрын

    I was worried you were gonna sleep on the less 'popular' heroines when all your focus seemed to be on Austen's IT girls lol Thankfully, you didn't let me down. I'm a total Eleanor with a touch of Fanny in there

  • @user-rs7xf5tm9s

    @user-rs7xf5tm9s

    3 жыл бұрын

    FANNY IS A QUEEN AND SHE'S UNDERRATED

  • @amandac9894
    @amandac98943 жыл бұрын

    Even though I’m a girl I always saw myself a bit in Lizzie’s father Mr. Bennet. Both he and I are optimists and love to spend alone time in the library also I’m always stuck with my head above the clouds and need a reality check every now and then 😂 who else can relate?

  • @someonerandom256

    @someonerandom256

    3 жыл бұрын

    I've got some of his absurdity.

  • @marijajanicijevic8211

    @marijajanicijevic8211

    3 жыл бұрын

    I can relate with that, lol.

  • @daveniaful

    @daveniaful

    2 жыл бұрын

    ask my tax advisor😀

  • @mishynaofficial

    @mishynaofficial

    4 ай бұрын

    I'm some kind of a philosopher myself 😅

  • @rachelsanchis
    @rachelsanchis3 жыл бұрын

    I have a feeling Jane Austen would be quite disappointed at most of the female characters on TV and film today.

  • @yula3723

    @yula3723

    2 ай бұрын

    For real!

  • @katdenning6535
    @katdenning65353 жыл бұрын

    I’m tired of people not understanding Emma. Privilege was the world she lived in and she was EXPECTED to behave as higher than others. I’m glad they mentioned her self-sufficiency but they completely forgot her two most important qualities: her imagination and feelings of loneliness. Emma is the woman who seemingly has everything she could ever want but really just wants intellectual stimulation, which she really only receives from Mr. Knightly. She’s stuck in a situation where she has no outlets for her intellect and it makes her lonely and imaginative. Her imagination running away with her and she almost lives her day dreams. Those who get stuck in their own daydreams, thoughts, and planning are Emmas. If you’ve ever caught yourself imagining what you’d say or do in a social situation (confessing to a crush or having a crush confess to you) then you know what it’s like to be an Emma.

  • @toomuchpassion2361
    @toomuchpassion23613 жыл бұрын

    Persuasion is my favorite book by Jane Austin. Anne is such an amazing protagonist and Captain Wentworth is equally brilliant!!

  • @DianeJennings
    @DianeJennings3 жыл бұрын

    I’m Emma but I don’t think I’m clueless 😂

  • @i.am.10vely

    @i.am.10vely

    3 жыл бұрын

    Neither did Emma ;)

  • @ivettecastle3420

    @ivettecastle3420

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you are an Emma you´ll obviously think that

  • @roreinudesu6199

    @roreinudesu6199

    3 жыл бұрын

    You’re def Emma

  • @jocelynmurillo1145

    @jocelynmurillo1145

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @fish-fingers_and_custard7685

    @fish-fingers_and_custard7685

    3 жыл бұрын

    Diane!!!

  • @chrisvale
    @chrisvale3 жыл бұрын

    Jennifer Ehle's Lizzie Bennet is all I have ever wanted to be. I am not. That.

  • @melissaroscher1080
    @melissaroscher10803 жыл бұрын

    I'm Fanny Price.

  • @GrainneMhaol

    @GrainneMhaol

    3 жыл бұрын

    Good for you. She's a quiet badass.

  • @katherinemorelle7115

    @katherinemorelle7115

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too! She’s my favourite Austen heroine. I love her quiet strength and resilience. Emma and Lizzy get all the glory, and I wish that we’d give Fanny (and Catherine) a bit more love.

  • @thechieffect

    @thechieffect

    3 жыл бұрын

    🤣🤣🤣

  • @urooj5620
    @urooj56203 жыл бұрын

    I wish there was a really awesome film of Mansfield Park. It's so overlooked!

  • @disgruntledmoderate5331

    @disgruntledmoderate5331

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too! I feel like there hasn't been a good adaption done yet.

  • @WitchFlowerVal
    @WitchFlowerVal3 жыл бұрын

    I’m a self proclaimed Lizzie but I do resonate with Marianne’s passion for creative expression but also Elinor’s willingness to sacrifice showing her feelings for the sake of someone she cares about

  • @studywmon
    @studywmon3 жыл бұрын

    Everyone wants to be Lizzie, just admits it. She holds all quality of the satirical traits of an " independent woman" media so obsessed about. Culture mistakes intelligent for value, so that is why intellectual meets their doom of vanity.

  • @thenightskywatchingoverme

    @thenightskywatchingoverme

    3 жыл бұрын

    What do you mean mistakes intelligence for value? Intelligence is valuable- as well as the other traits deemed as responsible or sensible or caring but if a woman is smart they can tend to be mistreated. I think people like Lizzie because she gets to be intelligent and undaunted about it.

  • @thenightskywatchingoverme

    @thenightskywatchingoverme

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also, what do you mean by "satirical" traits of an independent woman.

  • @thenightskywatchingoverme

    @thenightskywatchingoverme

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also, I realize after I type these out they I sound like I'm arguing but ai actually genuinely want to know what you think. :)

  • @schwester6523

    @schwester6523

    3 жыл бұрын

    No, i want to be a Jane Bennet or Elinor.

  • @asryn96

    @asryn96

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@schwester6523 Elinor. 🍀

  • @brandyloutherback9288
    @brandyloutherback92883 жыл бұрын

    Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, and Mansfield Park are all underrated!

  • @rutikajadhav9642
    @rutikajadhav96423 жыл бұрын

    I think I'm a Mr Darcy.

  • @ninab.4540

    @ninab.4540

    3 жыл бұрын

    You'll find your Lizzie :)

  • @rutikajadhav9642

    @rutikajadhav9642

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ninab.4540 Haha I hope so.

  • @snowleopard89
    @snowleopard893 жыл бұрын

    I am Anne. It's sad how much I have been used by others. This is why I married my husband. He pushes me to stand up for myself.

  • @weltschmertzz
    @weltschmertzz3 жыл бұрын

    Who everybody wants to be: Lizzie Who everybody really is: Mary

  • @MsNoMeGusta
    @MsNoMeGusta3 жыл бұрын

    We all need to be Miss.Steeles, she went where the money resides and that makes sense when your life expectancy is 42

  • @Goldkehlchen20

    @Goldkehlchen20

    3 жыл бұрын

    And with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience!

  • @heartbeatelectrix8117

    @heartbeatelectrix8117

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂🤣🥲

  • @marichristian

    @marichristian

    22 күн бұрын

    The Miss Steeles are hilarious!

  • @annaeverette8960
    @annaeverette89603 жыл бұрын

    "It was every day implied, but never declared" Perhaps I *will* read that book, in a decade or so

  • @AveryTalksAboutStuff
    @AveryTalksAboutStuff3 жыл бұрын

    Just an Emma trying to be a Lizzie here. 😂

  • @wellknown1204

    @wellknown1204

    3 жыл бұрын

    I am an Emma as well, but I am okah to be Emma😅.

  • @dels.april12

    @dels.april12

    3 жыл бұрын

    Couldn't relate more 😂

  • @elizabethsaucedein909
    @elizabethsaucedein9093 жыл бұрын

    I’m definitely a Marianne, especially when I was younger. How my poor, young heart suffered for love.

  • @timtheguy2179
    @timtheguy21793 жыл бұрын

    Can we get a “You Know it’s a Guillermo Del Toro Film If” It’d be interesting to see you take on his work

  • @greyLeicester
    @greyLeicester3 жыл бұрын

    I am totally, unmistakably and undeniably a Marianne 😂😂😂 oh dear, the similarities are uncanny!!

  • @audyd9251
    @audyd92513 жыл бұрын

    i see myself so much in elizabeth bennett, when i was a kid i always had the feelings lizzie is gonna be my future self,, now im just patiently waiting for mr.darcy to come out. btw jane austen was such a talented writer!!

  • @gracieliz95
    @gracieliz953 жыл бұрын

    If you’re a Marianne, your “ideal partner” is old enough to be your father and he marries you because you remind him of his dead childhood sweetheart, but it would be too weird to just marry her daughter, who happens to have shared the same former lover as you. 🙃 If you’re an Emma, your “ideal partner” is sixteen years older than you, started to fall in love with you when you were thirteen, and has been teaching you how to behave for all of your adolescence and early adulthood 🙃 If you’re a Lizzie, your “ideal partner” is everyone’s ideal partner, so get ready for some competition

  • @kahkah1986

    @kahkah1986

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you're an Anne, you only ever had one "ideal partner" but as you broke up with them, they will revenge flirt with your younger relatives and then angrily insist they only ever cared about you the moment you manage to get yourself another boyfriend... If you're a Catherine, your "ideal partner" is not so much your intellectual superior as your intellectual know-it-all. Fortunately, they find the time to give you plenty of lectures. How would you survive without their untiring instruction? If you're an Elinor, don't expect your "ideal partner" to inform you he is engaged to someone else. Or indeed break up with that someone else. Only extreme carelessness on the part of other relatives will allow you to get a whisper of a look in there. And even then, will he keep you informed of these surprise developments? Barely.

  • @excellentboiledpotato1667

    @excellentboiledpotato1667

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you're a Fanny, your "ideal partner" is your cousin.

  • @AN31DO01RR96

    @AN31DO01RR96

    2 жыл бұрын

    George Martin ftw 🙌 🥰

  • @AMoniqueOcampo
    @AMoniqueOcampo3 жыл бұрын

    And I'm here like...Um, what about Fanny Price? Catherine Moreland? Mansfield Park does not get enough love!

  • @rebeccathornemusic
    @rebeccathornemusic3 жыл бұрын

    As a Brit, asking "Are you a Fanny?" doesn't quite have the same ring to it 😂

  • @mariongivhan4574
    @mariongivhan45743 жыл бұрын

    Sometimes I feel like I'm an Emma, especially after watching the latest adaptation! But whenever I watch the miniseries of Pride & Prejudice and reread the book, I think I'm a Lizzie, for her quick conclusions, her resolution that her opinion is right, her particular humor, her ability to move well within society and keep up manners, and her need to understand someone before she accepts she might have been wrong. Love all of the heroines and heroes of Austen

  • @LS.356
    @LS.3563 жыл бұрын

    It's so great to see a take here about Jane Austen heroines, I love her books!

  • @AReadsManga
    @AReadsManga3 жыл бұрын

    I already know I'm Anne from Persuasion.

  • @komal146
    @komal1463 жыл бұрын

    I used to believe that I was Lizzie, but I'm definitely Emma with shades of Catherine (northanger abbey)

  • @lolafisher3453

    @lolafisher3453

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's the same as me!

  • @azuregiant9258
    @azuregiant92583 жыл бұрын

    Mainly and naturally a Marianne, but as I’ve gotten older have had learn to add a dash of Elinor and Lizzy into the mix to avoid getting into trouble/heart broken.

  • @fastbowler
    @fastbowler3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for including the full spectrum of Austen heroines, especially Fanny, Catherine and Anne! I was scared this would be the usual re-tread of Emma, Lizzie… But Austen's understanding of female insight is broader, complex, and even includes insight of flaws, and the video gets to demonstrates this. Glad I looked past the (understandably) clickbait title!

  • @triumphofmagic
    @triumphofmagic3 жыл бұрын

    I'm on my way to being Miss Havisham, but that's entirely the wrong author...

  • @malabzeechoudhury6355

    @malabzeechoudhury6355

    3 жыл бұрын

    pleaseee! tell me about it XD

  • @collegiatemisfit6071

    @collegiatemisfit6071

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh dear. I will call the maid to clean out the wedding cake 🥺

  • @Zzzsleepzzz

    @Zzzsleepzzz

    3 жыл бұрын

    I feel like pip

  • @TheGreatMondello
    @TheGreatMondello3 жыл бұрын

    This video makes me want to get into Austen's books. I read Pride and Prejudice in college, but, like a lot of things I read in college, I felt I didn't enjoy it since we had to keep up with a pretty brisk schedule, and I prefer to read at a pretty casual pace. Everything I hear from folks about Austen's work makes me think that I'd really enjoy them now they I can read them on my own time.

  • @jaimicottrill2831

    @jaimicottrill2831

    3 жыл бұрын

    You will definitely love them. I re-read all of Austen’s books every year! The language, the characters the wit come together to make perfection. 😄

  • @sebeckley
    @sebeckley3 жыл бұрын

    The director of the Kiera Knightley version said that he didn't like Pride and Prejudice, and it shows.

  • @ziggygalerty8958

    @ziggygalerty8958

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why

  • @hellowhatsup5633

    @hellowhatsup5633

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why would you direct a movie based on a book you hate? And yes, it definitely shows!

  • @lizd.8655
    @lizd.86553 жыл бұрын

    I'm a mix of Elinor and Anne. I never really thought of Fanny but maybe I'm a little of her too

  • @LadyAhro
    @LadyAhro3 жыл бұрын

    I'm definitely more of a Catherine. I have a very overactive imagination and I can jump to conclusions but don't really mean anything by it. I'm creative and definitely have a clever mind even if i should think critically more.

  • @jasminexie379

    @jasminexie379

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same! I love Catherine!

  • @eadc2158
    @eadc21583 жыл бұрын

    Persuasion is my most favorite novel of JA. Although all of them are wonderful, there's just something good about loving the longest.

  • @limerence8365
    @limerence83653 жыл бұрын

    They've been using Austen clips for months it was only a matter of time before this video came out and I'm so happy....

  • @danielasarmiento30
    @danielasarmiento303 жыл бұрын

    "Are you Lizzie, Emma or Marianne" I am Fanny Price.

  • @EEVictory13
    @EEVictory133 жыл бұрын

    As a teenager, Marianne. As an adult Elinor and Lizzie in equal measures depending on the day.

  • @micaelaroyo4837
    @micaelaroyo48373 жыл бұрын

    Trust me, in a household that has nothing but resentment and negativity, kindness and the ability to shut your feelings off is the best move to make. I know this makes me sound like an Elinor but its for the best

  • @Ebathora
    @Ebathora3 жыл бұрын

    I’m a Lizzie with some Catherine. I also haven’t read Persuasion, but I will now! Anne’s description in this video is so compelling.

  • @rowk_art
    @rowk_art3 жыл бұрын

    Well, I'm definitely Fanny and this is the first time I hear about her

  • @i.am.10vely

    @i.am.10vely

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just realized I commented a spoiler sorry!! Nvm lol

  • @rowk_art

    @rowk_art

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@i.am.10vely Yeah, and it still shows previous version in my notifications x) Don't worry I don't have one!

  • @Lemure1987
    @Lemure19873 жыл бұрын

    Wow Even the Take didn't dwell long on Fanny. Way to add insult to injury

  • @alannahhurley386
    @alannahhurley3863 жыл бұрын

    Sense and Sensibility (1811) - Marianne and Elinor Pride and Prejudice (1813) - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia Mansfield Park (1814) - Fanny Emma (1815) - Emma Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous) - Catherine Persuasion (1818, posthumous) - Anne Lady Susan (1871, posthumous) - Susan

  • @8thwander26
    @8thwander263 жыл бұрын

    After 2020, I am most definitely a CHARLOTTE.

  • @evoLTenshi
    @evoLTenshi3 жыл бұрын

    I'm a Marianne, I live with my heart and at least now, I know, to listen to my head sometimes to avoid future heartache.

  • @merebrillante
    @merebrillante3 жыл бұрын

    Am I the only one who snorted in laughter at, "Are you a Fanny?"

  • @rhythmictiger
    @rhythmictiger3 жыл бұрын

    Is anyone just one of these characters? I think we all have a little of each in us.

  • @bbbrly9159
    @bbbrly91593 жыл бұрын

    Other than the part about being rich, I'm Emma.

  • @TalesandtomeswithAmy
    @TalesandtomeswithAmy3 жыл бұрын

    I am unquestionably a Katherine Morland, which is why Northanger Abbey is my favorite Austen novel.

  • @jasminexie379

    @jasminexie379

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same here! Katherine is so underrated, yet she is so unique!

  • @sweetimmortalife
    @sweetimmortalife3 жыл бұрын

    Once again The Take makes a fantastic and heartwarming video. I love you guys so much!

  • @wendyarneson3556
    @wendyarneson35563 жыл бұрын

    I LOVE this Take on literary classic characters! Please do more!

  • @archiewoosung5062
    @archiewoosung50622 жыл бұрын

    Would you have thought Lady Russell's advice to Anne Elliott had been so bad had Frederick Wentworth's first ship gone down, as he said it might well have done? Perhaps Anne should have ignored the good advice simply because the reward was worth the risk? Lizzie Bennet realises just as Charlotte Lucas does that she is nor free to marry without forutne...don't think anywhere in the novel does it suggest she is happy to leave that responsibility to Jane, she is simply not prepared to marry without love and would be appalled if Jane did so, as she is when Charlotte does.

  • @gabiluch87
    @gabiluch873 жыл бұрын

    I feel I have traits from all of them, or at least some of them were stronger at different times of my life. That's the beauty of Jane Austen, she wrote heroines that all women could feel identified with. She was a true feminist. Imagine reading this back when it came out, seeing yourself and feeling acceptance, how powerful!

  • @PokhrajRoy.
    @PokhrajRoy.3 жыл бұрын

    This is the video I need. Thank you for this! ❤️

  • @suchidelenasomerhalder1260
    @suchidelenasomerhalder12603 жыл бұрын

    Was waiting for this video!

  • @JessicaGarcia-sl9ue
    @JessicaGarcia-sl9ue3 жыл бұрын

    I’m an Emma Sun with a Catherine rising 😌

  • @jaimephillips1521

    @jaimephillips1521

    Жыл бұрын

    I finally know how to respond when someone asks me for my astrological sign bc this is way more accurate 😂

  • @bonniestar7583
    @bonniestar75833 жыл бұрын

    I am a Kitty Bennett a character so inconsequential the Lizzy Bennett diarys replaced her with an actual cat

  • @svetlananovoseltseva6441
    @svetlananovoseltseva64413 жыл бұрын

    amazing, thank you ladies!

  • @MKGirl317
    @MKGirl3172 жыл бұрын

    Love this video. I love the breakdown of all the characters. People like to see these characters as outdated but I do not. Great video. I see myself in a few of these women.

  • @acecat5575
    @acecat55753 жыл бұрын

    Half Catherine, half Lizzy... head in the clouds but impulsive, perceptive but snappy 😅

  • @AbrianCurington

    @AbrianCurington

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hard same! My first impressions are always proven to be correct, but I will second guess them to death with totally made up scenarios anyway 😅

  • @coffeeaddictkittyy.b4158
    @coffeeaddictkittyy.b41583 жыл бұрын

    Ahhh Persuasion is my absolute favorite, I love Anne 💕

  • @NLAnna
    @NLAnna3 жыл бұрын

    BBC's 2007 adaptation of Persuasion is my all time favourite Austen movie. I'm so glad that you included clips of this version in this video

  • @manicpixiefangirl4189
    @manicpixiefangirl41893 жыл бұрын

    I feel like most of the lesser known Austen girls. Getting overlooked like Fanny, Anne, and Elinor; being naive like Cathy, that’s pretty much my life so far. I love Lizzie to pieces and Pride and Prejudice got me through some rough times. I feel like there’s some Lizzy buried inside me that’s just waiting to bust out, but I have no clue how to open that door. I guess that’s why I love Jane Austen as much as I do. She definitely knew her shit!

  • @te-ter
    @te-ter3 жыл бұрын

    I may be a mash between Emma and Elinor. I related to Emma a lot while reading her story, but being so nosy and meddling in other people's lives is something I wouldn't be able to bring myself to do. I may have been less enjoying myself while reading about Elinor, but I also understand many of her decisions since they're often what I would do.

  • @katherinemorelle7115
    @katherinemorelle71153 жыл бұрын

    I just greatly appreciate that Jane Austen was writing such wonderful, nuanced, intelligent, deep and flawed heroines. Austen heroines are REAL in a way that few others are, especially those written so long ago. She had such respect for women, for our intelligence and emotions. How many romantic heroines could claim to be as intelligent and fleshed out as those written by Austen? She was writing strong female characters well before the term existed. And well before feminism existed. She was extraordinary. I wish we had more Jane Austens in the world. We’d certainly have much better female characters!

  • @katherinemorelle7115

    @katherinemorelle7115

    3 жыл бұрын

    As for me, I’m a Fanny. (Heh, can’t help myself). I think she’s one of the least appreciated Austen heroines. I admire her quiet strength and resilience through hardship.

  • @denisefreitas6727
    @denisefreitas67273 жыл бұрын

    Perfect video!💖

  • @danielademelobarbosa2612
    @danielademelobarbosa26122 жыл бұрын

    Que vídeo maravilhoso! Adorei!

  • @auroramadariaga4081
    @auroramadariaga40813 жыл бұрын

    I gravitate towards being a Catherine😍😅 By the way, you know there's also a BBC adaptation (2008) of Sense And Sensibility, right? It's a lot closer to the novel because it's a mini series. I strongly recommend it😉❤️

  • @ukiyoutsusemi5372
    @ukiyoutsusemi53723 жыл бұрын

    I always thought I was a Lizzie, but just realized now that I’m actually more Mr Darcy 😂 and bf is a less pretty version of Harriet Smith

  • @Daphnegirl93
    @Daphnegirl933 жыл бұрын

    persuasion is my absolute fave but gOd am i relieved that the elinor/jane type is more relatable personally

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