Some time ago I came across the Jane Austen Confessions Blog on which I found a 30-day Jane Austen challenge, consisting in 30 questions to answer about your favourites in Jane Austen's books and their film adaptations.
Since I just finished reading "Emma" (which was my 4th Austen book of her 5 main novels) I thought it would be a good moment to start with this challenge.
I slightly modified the challenge, though. As I don't consider having seen enough different Film adaptations of the books to really pick out my favourites, I'll only take the questions about the actual book. (Which makes it a 20-day challenge) And of course, I'll exclude "Persuasion" from this, as I haven't read it yet.
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Well, let's start with Day 1:
1. Favourite Austen heroine
This Challenge obviously starts with a difficult question, since there actually are two young ladies I'd design as my favourites: Miss Elizabeth Bennet and Miss Emma Woodhouse.
The reasons for which I like them are really different, though.
I really admire Elizabet for her firm character, self-confidence, temper and discretion. I'd actually like to have more of Elizabeth's traits in myself! So if I design Lizzy as my favourite heroine, it's because she's the most applaudable character in my opinion.
As for Emma, it's actually the contrary that makes me like her so much: her imperfectness makes her really likeable and human (at least in my eyes) and I find her so very amusing!
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