Questions About Obligation and Redemption: An Alternative Journey Through Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

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How can a writer paint our Darcy as a rapist? In social work we locked those up and the children and women had to have therapy for years. How can anyone rate this story with any stars is beyond me. You are encouraging writers to vilify our Darcy. This is not what I want to read and I refuse to buy or read this book.

Holly I'm bewildered by the positive reviews, myself. I wonder sometimes if women are so blind to seeing misogyny in fiction because they are so used to it …moreI'm bewildered by the positive reviews, myself. I wonder sometimes if women are so blind to seeing misogyny in fiction because they are so used to it in their own lives? Maybe a lot of women think that once people are married it can't be rape. Au contraire. That was settled by 1993 - when all 50 states had laws making rape within a marriage explicitly illegal. So the best we can say about this is that the author meant to point out that women had no agency over their bodies. It didn't feel like that was the point when I read the book - it felt more like "this is a woman's duty to her husband" (blech), which is why I mentioned Elizabeth's martyrdom. I don't know, I just got a whole dose of "men hate women so this is how they treat them."
This is no advertisement for christian marriage, I'll tell you. Unless martyrdom in the face of such violence is the point?
No, thanks - I'll pass.(less)

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