Persuasion Book Comparison

I chose to read the novel, Persuasion, by Jane Austen. This book was written around the eighteen hundreds, which is important because social class during those times was considered more important than it is today. The story is mainly centered around two characters love story, Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot. The Elliot family is a very wealthy family ranked high in social class. Lady Russell played the motherly rose in Annes life and persuaded her to not marry the one she was in love with, Captain Wentworth, because of his lower social class. Anne becomes lonely and they do not have contact for eight years and Wentworth during that period of time goes into the Navy, therefore raising his social standings. In the end, Wentworth and Anne finally come face to face and she tells him of how Lady Russell persuaded her to reject him and he takes the blame upon himself by saying thst he should have married her six years ago and if he could do it then he would be “happier than he deserves.” The movie Persuasion was a close representation of the book written by Jane Austen.

First of all, the movie opens with a scene of the Navy defeating Bonaparte and getting sent home. This is contrary to the book because the book opens with the introduction of the family and the explanation of the Elliott’s distinct personalities and character (Austen 7-8). However, I did indeed think that the depiction of the character, Sir Walter Elliot, was an accurate representation of what the book described him to be on page seven, when it said,” Vanity was the beginning of and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character, vanity of person and of situation.” The movie also did a good job of depicting the relationship between Sir Walter and his daughter. Anne. He does not find great delight in her just like the book says, “Anne Elliot had been a very pretty girl,her father had found little to admire in her (Austen