"Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen"
- Mark Haddon
About this Quote
This quote by Mark Haddon is a pointer that the works of Jane Austen are often glamorized and glamorized in film adaptations. Haddon is suggesting that we forget the truth of Austen's stories, which are about individuals living in a limiting society with limited opportunities. Austen's characters are often depicted as having amazing lives, but in truth, they are often stuck in an ordinary existence. Haddon's quote acts as a tip that Austen's works are not practically romance and love, but likewise about the battles of everyday life. It is important to bear in mind that Austen's stories are not practically the pleased endings, but also about the struggles and challenges that her characters deal with.
This quote is written / told by Mark Haddon somewhere between September 26, 1962 and today. He/she was a famous Novelist from England.
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