Thursday, 17 December 2015. The 16 of December of this 2015 is the 240th anniversary of Jane Austen. If you do not know who is, we introduce her. Austen is a renowned English playwright, with stories that captured the tradition and the typical of her culture. She was born on 16 December 1775 and died 18 July 1819, when she was only 41 years old. Her most famous books are part of the 100 best of all times, and are part of what we definitely must read before dying.
Her main works were: “wisdom and feeling” of 1811, “Emma” 1815, “Persuasion”, 1817, and the most famous of all “Pride and Prejudice” of 1813. These novels relate stories of valuable women and with great mental acuity living complex loves.
These works have gained so much fame at the global level, inspiring many films, primarily is “Emma”, the history of the matchmaker; starred by Gwyneth Paltrow or the most famous version “Clueless” with Alicia Silverstone. “Sense and Sensibility” starred by Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant, the history that earned her several nominations to the cast.
Finally, all the movies based on “Pride and Prejudice”, that is definitely the most attractive history written by Austen with phrases that have crossed the barrier of time, such as “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”.
Her stories faithfully describe the British society of her time, so it is a catalog of human behavior, sometimes outrageous for the most rebels of women or idyllic for the most romantic. The majority audience of the stories is females because they opt for love, romance and candidness female, in addition, of misunderstandings with attractive dramatic twists. They are stories that are in the “top” of the most important books in the life of a woman.
The same life of Austen is reflected in her stories, therefore, her own loving situations were unfortunate; but without the happy ending that all we want in our own realities, and we can know it in the movies based on her biography.
“Becoming Jane”, is a biographical film of 2007, which tells the youth and part of her creative process; the love and the suffering of being a woman in a society that only approves the social position. The story is very well made respecting all the details of the life and work of Austen. Is starred by Anne Hathaway and James Mc Avoy as the sentimental interest of Jane.
Know Jane Austen is to reveal the triumph of the women as figure social and conquer the most beautiful love stories of the literature. We are invited to read her entire collection of texts and celebrate her 240th anniversary, teaching us to love the romantic love.
ALFA