Monday, January 18, 2010

Scenario: My boyfriend/husband/whatever must be 100% like Mr. Darcy

It has occured to me that, for girls who reads Pride and Prejudice, they will soon (either subconsciously or not) conjure up a Mr. Fitzwilliam Dracy model that is to be used, if you will, on potential boyfriends/husbands.

Ok, so maybe not every girl have this whole Mr. Darcy complex going on in their heads after years of reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, but some do.

It is not something difficult to understand when me, myself, reads the novel many times and personally admire Darcy's 'arrogant disposition' (I'd like to think of it as an inability to express oneself properly rather than pure arrogance.) However, I find the overt and excessive admiration for a fictional character to a point that a girl/woman wishes to model her boyfriend/husband entirely after the guy is a bit...extreme.

There is nothing wrong with admiring Fitzwilliam Darcy's character. A gentleman with fault is something more charming than a charismatic gentleman who turns out to be a fraud. Although this character is not as warm as Jane Austen's other heroes, such as George Knightley or Edmund Bertram; he is well received on his own right. After all, he is one of the favourite Austen novel heroes.

Having said that, as nice as it is to have a Mr. Darcy or Mr. Knightley around, finding such Victorian (or rather Georgian) gentlemen in our time isn't such an easy task. So give the guys a break, yea? It may not be easy to fill Mr. Darcy's shoes but I am sure there is some gentleman's quality in everyone :)

And for those of you who actually managed to find a Mr. Darcy/Mr. Knightley/Another Jane Austen hero in the real world; congratulations, that is quite a catch!

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