Loving and loathing in Victorian England: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Reviewed
Maria Jose Vargas, Y11 I´ve always considered myself a hopeless romantic. Of course, I’ve never fallen in love, so where does this hopelessly romantic view of love come from? Well, mostly from the romantic novels filling my personal book collection, and a little of 1999-2000 rom-com. So finding Jane was an epiphany. She is known for her beautiful love stories, so I just impulsively ignored all my book titles written in my “to read list” and bought Pride and Prejudice , expecting tension-filled enemies to lovers action, and let me tell you it did not disappoint... in the enemies to lovers part. In order to start this review, I have to be honest and make the most horrible confession a reader can make… I watched Pride and Prejudice first, and then read the book. Please don’t jud ge; I kno w I should be ashamed, and I am. So we can say that before reading the book I had the idea of the story and the ending. My epiphany, then, was more about browsing Netflix and finding my futu...