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Deep Analysis of Persuasion: The Refrain of Pain (Ch. X - XV) (Patreon)

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2021-06-14 16:00:09
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Today we're going to finally reveal the character who doesn't speak.

So get your guesses in now.

We're talking about the refrain of pain, the leitmotif of what could have been, and hoping to derive some healing power from the poetry of Wordsworth and Byron atop the cliffs of Lyme.

Video Timestamps:

  • 0:00 the character who doesn’t speak
  • 3:00 the refrain of pain
  • 4:00 what does Fortune matter if your love is gone?
  • 4:30 sea changes and why sailors are the focus of Persuasion
  • 6:00 Anne, Benwick, and the solitude of heartbreak
  • 6:30 silence, grief, and self-talk
  • 7:20 the leitmotif of what could have been
  • 9:00 an elegy to the healing power of reading
  • 11:00 talking about someone without talking about them
  • 11:45 Austen and show vs tell
  • 12:10 a special way of reading and befriending authors
  • 13:00 art, nature, and the Romantic sublime
  • 14:30 Wordsworth’s influence on Austen
  • 16:00 Cowper’s ‘Castaway’ and waves crashing upon the rocks
  • 16:45 Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’
  • 17:40 Providence vs Prudence

Happy reading!

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Deep Analysis of Persuasion: The Refrain of Pain (Ch. X - XV)

0:00 the character who doesn’t speak 3:00 the refrain of pain 4:00 what does Fortune matter if your love is gone? 4:30 sea changes and why sailors are the focus of Persuasion 6:00 Anne, Benwick, and the solitude of heartbreak 6:30 silence, grief, and self-talk 7:20 the leitmotif of what could have been 9:00 an elegy to the healing power of reading 11:00 talking about someone without talking about them 11:45 Austen and show vs tell 12:10 a special way of reading and befriending authors 13:00 art, nature, and the Romantic sublime 14:30 Wordsworth’s influence on Austen 16:00 Cowper’s ‘Castaway’ and waves crashing upon the rocks 16:45 Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’ 17:40 Providence vs Prudence

Comments

Matthew Long

I have spent my entire adult life in the Navy, first as an enlisted Sailor and later on as an officer. The themes of the sea and the prominence of naval figures in the story has appealed to me. I have really identified with the ideas of the family aspect of the Navy as well as the concepts of longing and loss from lengthy periods of time at sea. I have known many of my fellow Sailors who have lost family members while at sea and were unable to return home for the funeral due to operational commitments. My own grandfather passed away while I was deployed and I missed the weddings of all four of my siblings. So definitely identifying with some of the big themes in this book. Great lecture Ben!

Kaushi

Fanny Harville and Captain Benwick are the couple who signify Prudence, and it’s costs. As do Charles and Mary Musgrove, to a much less dangerous degree. Captain Wentworth and Luisa Musgrove are the couple of Providence. As were Mr Smith and Miss Hamilton. Does JA suggest neither affords true happiness in themselves, but only in their balances, as Ben too asks in the video above? At the end of the book we have 2 couples of seeming balance - Benwick and Louisa (but a Louisa now more prudent perhaps?), and Wentworth with Anne. Yet even here a complete answer may not be had - for wasn’t Mr Elliot (Prudence) wed to his first wife (who possibly trusted to Providence in ardently marrying a penniless aristocrat, as also does Mrs Clay in throwing away all to join him)? Is the balance admissible then only in a Prudence which yet seems more than mere self interest, and is tempered by adherence to a natural divine law of filial duty and protection of social norms that secure more than one’s interests? Does JA subtly enquire through Mary, whether Charles Musgrove and his Lady Mary seem almost to rank equal or even better than Captain Wentworth and his Lady Anne, all in all, at the end of the book? Then again, what about Admiral and excellent Mrs Croft, undoubtedly the couple of Providence, who have possibly managed and paid the price of childlessness. Charles Hayter and Henrietta Musgrove another couple of Prudence, but one tempered with genuine affection and luckier than the Fanny Harville and Captain Benwick couple who were dependent on an unfathomable sea of storms unlike the former in the stability of Land, and in the Service of God…?