LITERATURE - Jane Austen
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Jane Austen’s novels are so readable in part because she wasn’t an ordinary kind of novelist: she wanted her work to help us to be better and wiser people. Her novels had a philosophy of personal development at their heart.
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Jane Austen also teaches us not to be to tough on introverts, they turn out to be her most worthy characters.
elias masri (possibly because she is one herself!) (just my guess) most writers appear more 'introverted' than 'extroverted' although I don't know that those are good judges of a writer to be honest.
Eliza Bennet an introvert?
@@archiewoosung2800 Darcy is an introvert. Eliza is an extrovert.
@@rosary1561 Lizzie wasn't a extrovert, that's out of modest character and very well fits with LYDIA'S character. And Darcy doesn't like chatters and gossipers
look at the bots talk to each other lol
"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings" - Jane Austen
"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love." -Jane Austen
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Her stories have so many layers starting from personal level to big societal projections. all her characters have imperfections which is beautiful 💞 The way the standard protagonist traits are to her second leads shows her uniqueness of writing
These videos have opened my eyes to the beauty of philosophy and literature. It's such a comforting feeling to learn that the questions and often sad thoughts in my head have been thought of and so thoroughly worked on by these great men and women in the past. In the past two weeks since I've started to watch these videos, I have seriously reconsidered many topics and views I have on life. It's a shame American core curriculum doesn't require the teaching of philosophy and reasoning. If more people learned and discussed these issues, it could make our societies and lives so much more fulfilling..
Kevin Chon true
Kevin Chon yes! So agree with that :)
although your comment was posted 3 years ago, 3 years ago i would have said the same thing for this channel.
Three laters have passed since this comment was posted and I still agree.
I've completed all the literature videos, now thanks to your 4-year old comment I feel compelled to work my way forward in philosophy.
School of Life is one of the most humanistic channel on UA-cam.
Can you make more videos about women, please? (Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Wolf, George Eliot, Harper lee, the Bronte sisters, etc)
Dr Drake Ramoray There is one for Virginia Woolf.
Jacob Hartwell Okay but the others ?
Yeppppp
nobody likes women, like tf go back in your kitchen or coke me some food or watch for the kids
@@cnstxtn3597 triggered male bitch 🤣🤣
What's even more crazy is that Jane Austen wasn't formally recognized as a great writer until the 1920's! During her life, people did not largely read her work, and it wasn't until many decades later when a Harvard Scholar wrote a seminal paper on her work did she finally get attention!
That's not totally accurate but yes it was a slow ascent. Now her works are red hot.
That's not really true.
As a writer, she's my inspiration, and I'm not a professional writer, but I do love writing!!
Then shut your ass up til you become a Pro. writer. And be easy nobody's gonna read yo bullshit
Her stories have so many layers starting from personal level to big societal projections.The ease with which she shifts and covers from self reflection/ personality analysis to commentary on huge social concerns like misogyny- economic security- marriage - gender roles-social status-education - accomplishments and double standards. All her characters have imperfections which is beautiful 💞 The way the standard protagonist traits are to her second leads shows her uniqueness of writing
I am thoroughly convinced that only the deepest love shall induce me into matrimony
-Elizabeth 'Lizzie'
J. Austen ,Pride and Prejudice is the first novel i read when i learned english, i still found it difficult but beautiful as i improved. i was mesmerized at her writing , how well she could work on the carachters. thank you for making a video of her life, she was amazing writer
Pride and Prejudice is a really hard book to be your first English book, that is so cool that you did that!
yes, her novels" make us laugh." Don't forget to emphasize how witty and funny Austen is.
Kudos to the animators of all the episodes. I don't think they get nearly enough appreciation :)
I’ve been wondering what they use for quite a while… it’s amazing and students love it
Make one about Oscar Wilde
+Nikola Kolev I second this.
Agree
Fuck YES!!!
Make a video about the Brontë Sisters as well
+Helena Gouveia Make that three videos as they were very distinct characters.
+Helena Gouveia yes yes yes
yes please.
Still yes please
Oh God, please!!
I am SO thankful (to Jane of course) that she never married; selfish on my-part of course (and on a good many of you reader's out there) for if she had her whole life would have been given over to her husband and children.
We would certainly have lost some of the greatest of English literature.
I credit Jane for this presence of mind.
Her book's are easy and beautiful reading.
Its official ladies and gentlemen: Miss Austen is now the worlds most popular author ( really a literary juggernaut with latest spate of movies!) She's zoomed ahead of Shakespeare. Her timeless witty wise works are as contemporary today as when they were written. Brava!
Ayyy!!!! This is what I've been saying about Jane Austen. This is where her genius lies. We all like to have a better since of what we *ought* to do, and Austen gives it to us in her context, and with memorable characters. For me, when I first read 'Northanger Abbey' and realized how Catherine essentially matures on Isabella's back, I was furnished with the idea of 'reading people' as a life skill. And even though I do it poorly, I try to do it consciously (as opposed to subconsciously). Her dad may have been the preacher of God's effectual grace, but I suspect her writing has done more to cultivate relational warmth and discernment across the English-speaking world. Thanks for this, TSOL. Great work :)
@Arvind Ramanujam lol neither, I just rmbr a lot of random crap specific to JA's books, incl. the realizations I had while/after reading each one. Like wth a 'Gothic' is. Or, for some reason, the phrase: "oh these odious gigs!". (Come to think of it, these are all NA-specific lol. So I guess I'm speaking mostly about NA, PP...and Emma. I hated Persuasion.)
An absolutely wonderful presentation. And this is so true. She was a stern moralist. And that's a good thing. And that's something we can definitely use today. More people need to read her in that light. She was a daughter of a vicar, for God’s sake. If we all take some of her lessons to heart, we can lead a better life.
I was actually named after Jane Austen
But your name is Candle Lighter.
I love hearing you guys talk about literature. I was never able to articulate my fondness for Austen so well as your description of why she is such a loved writer, but that's absolutely a key point in my adoration of her. So, thanks for the words for the feeling. =]
I think Mansfield Park satisfies all of Jane's teaching goals
👍💕📍
I love her depictions of the outsiders. One can really relate to her characters because we've all felt on the outside of some situation at some point In all of our lives. The well off yearning to be Rich. The beautiful wanting to be perfect. Wanting to be loved by all when we are already loved by some.
This sole video has tought me more about relationships than any advice from anyone i have ever talked to ;D thanks school of life , keep it up !
Hi, just wanted you to know that I stumbled upon this video a couple of years ago after a Literature lesson in which we were tasked to read P&P. I didn't like it. But the 1st advice from Austen you present here, sticked with me for a reason. It is now, on my 10th year anniversary with my boyfriend that I can see why.
You see, I had a best friend who only made me hate myself more by the minute because I would never be able to be what she wanted me to be to the point I could not bear to voice my likes and dislikes to anyone just in case they were the same as her. Her way of thinking was so engraved into my mind that she had became the norm.
Until one day, this insanely great guy came into my life. He taught me how to love myself, how I don't have to sell myself short, that I'm worthy of all the good things that happen to me and it's okay to like videogames, anime, kpop (it may sound silly, but repressing your passions and the things you like is like renouncing to your identity to me) and that I shouldn't be ashamed of not being like others. And I found that there were more like me hidden between those others. He opened up my mind to so many worlds just so that I could feel comfortable with myself.
God, he loves ME and I love HIM!! I'll spend the rest of my life by his side, still learning, and trying my best just so that I can "improve" his life as much as he has improved mine.
Thank you
I truly appreciate your work.
A very informative piece that made me reconsider reading Jane Austen again.
Thank you for this brilliant and thoughtful production, this high standard and in general the effort the entire team puts into each and every video.
Thank you School of Life!
I honestly don't understand how this channel is not more popular. While I don't always agree with the attitudes or conclusions of your videos, I still find it interesting to get other people's perspectives on specific topics. It helps me grow as a person through viewing things from angles I may have never thought to even consider if not for your channel.
So thanks you for that :)
Austin does indeed do all the things you say and yet she also has one more very important trick up her sleeve, and that is to chronicle the English gentry's final transition out of the Age of Enlightenment and into the Romantic era. What's more, she seems to be somewhat skeptical of each paradigm.
For example, we see these two world views embodied and contrasted in Sense and Sensibility's Elinor and Marianne. In the story, each is in her own way an incompletely developed personality until experience and reflection change them and bring each a little closer to the other in thinking and behavior.
I have been watching this channel since that Marx video had less than 30k views. I adore your work, it really helps me in my day to day life. So thanks for that. I would really appreciate a Franz Kafka video please, no one on youtube, but this channel can do him justice. Thanks.
I remember being introduced to her work in high school, I was totally disinterested. I just wanted to get home and watch wrestling or play video games. Now that I'm 33 I understand, seems silly to think a 17 year old boy would appreciate the fine delicacies of social commentary.
Jane Austen is such a great author I simply love her books. My favorite is Emma.
"You taught me a lesson" Yeah, get 'em, Elizabeth.
One of the true and rare pleasures of my life.. work of Alain de Botton. My ultimate teacher and guide in understanding the mechanisms of life. Thank you :)
You are the best literary analysis writers/presenters on UA-cam! I love you guys and I hope you gain more subs
I never had a chance to read her novels but her perspective on life is truly one to behold.
It's strange to hear that people read Austen's novels as dramas of manners; in fact, most read them for the moral lessons and serious conversations found in them. And to me they seem all essentially alike, in that unusually intelligent and verbal women and men find each other over time, overcoming misunderstandings and the social meddling of "loved ones," such as Elizabeth Bennett's horride mother. If Austen weren't the great writer she was, any of her novels would be enough, so similar are they. As for the importance of money; we must consider the time and settings - she was down to earth and above class-based judgments, downright revolutionary. Another, later writer in her mold was the American Edith Wharton, who deserves similar attention.
which books do you recommend of Edith Wharton? I'm clueless :C
Start with 'The Age of Innocence.' Some of the others are so painful they can be hard to take, like Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth...
I watched The Jane Austen Book Club today and after watching this video I decided to read Pride and Prejudice. I am happy to report that I have read a significant amount of pages and am enjoying it.
Novels with a didactic purpose that indicate how man's prevailing vices may be circumvented are true classics.
Thanks tremendously for synthesizing such practical principles! xx
Excellent video. She writes with elegance and subtlety, clear-headed and warm-hearted. Her work is timeless :)
My pastor taught me this. And he suggests Jane Austen too. Amen. That's what got me and gets me back into Austen. :)
thanks for Portuguese captions.
One of my favorite authors.Love her very much
Make a Tolstoy video, please!
+The School of Life yay for Tolstoy
+Ian VC Haddock you have to dig a bit deeper than that
please a video on Kafka
Wonderful writer, timeless and charming.
pleaseeee make one about Oscar Wilde, Dostoyevsky, Hesse, Kafka, Stendhal..... pretty pleaseeeee
Make one about Charlotte Brönte :)
this is synchronicity bebe.
I was reading Austen when I got the message
Thanks for this Jane Austen Crash Course!
" 'having money's not everything, not having it is' -jane austen" -kanye west
I love jane austen and have read most of her novels but this has made me appreciate her at a much higher level
what a great thinker ,really her ideas and beliefs regarding love are fascinating !!!
Mate you have the most encouraging intro, it's like from a scene from Dr. No (1962) where they're dancing on a tropical island whilst conducting an undercover investigation
I dare you to make a video about Nabokov
Why dare them? What do they get out of it?
+Al-ameen Saidu Views...
+iggsolo Yes!
Thanks for this wonderful piece
I think a video about JD Salinge would be nice. :)
I love to read, but anytime you make literature or philosophy videos I just want to get lost into reading for ever. I've found plenty of your videos (most of them) as accurate, enriching.
Is there any chance of a video on Tolstoy? I feel like he's pretty important for philosophic literature, and life in general
***** Ah brilliant! you guys are the best
+The School of Life I'm so looking forward to that.
Thank you for this educating video. Although she had a little fame during her life, her work gained enormous popularity after her death.
Love this handsome woman!
Great one, make a video of "Omar Khayyam," I mean, not all eastern philosophers are chinese!
It would be great if you do videos on Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde.
Now we need a similarly excellent video on the life & work of George Orwell!
It isn't Julia who gets married to Mr Rushworth :) Maria, her sister is the one who does. But this is indeed very informative!
Jane Austen is the best teacher of our world.
Can you do Geoffrey Chaucer?
Best Jane Austen ever: 'Amy and Amiability'...
No, wait, that was Blackadder!...
I have three books about JANE AUSTEN and i love them,PRIDE AND PREJUDICE,EMMA and JANE AUSTEN S life.
Excellent video... I dont know anything abt jane austen except her name... Looking for sth that allows me a glimpse into her world and your clip has done this perfectly. I m very much tempted to read her work now.
Great! If I could make videos about Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Paine, Lord Byron and Kafka that would be even better
Great. Thanks for the recommendation, Raimund.
Well done and beautifully presented. Minor edit that it’s Maria Bertram (not Julia) who married James Rushworth.
Can we get a video on William Faulkner or F.scott Fitzgerald. I feel American lit deserves more representation
Could you please do more videos on literature? The parts that you highlight in these classic authors are truly enjoyable. Thank you!
Small correction, at 3:52 you say Julia Bertram but it was Maria Bertram who actually married Rushworth. Nice video otherwise though, really helping me with my paper
She is the one that makes me engage in literature
I find it fascinating when comparing Pride and Prejudice, and Persuation, how different the tones of the two novels are. I feel like in P&P, even though the Bennets are in a fairly dire situation, their problems aren't dwelt upon with the same melancholy as is evident in Persuasion. In P&P, Elizabeth condems Charlotte for marrying Mr. Collins, and to the modern reader (with very little knowedge of the times) the Charlotte's desicion seems silly and even unfeeling. In contrast, In Persuation, Anne is suffering because of her desicion not to marry when she could (something also seen in Emma). This last point is particularly interesting because Austen recived a proposal of marriage, accepted it, then turned it down the next day. She never got romantically involved after that.
Interestingly, after P&P but before Persuation, Jane Austen moved to Bath with her family, hated it, and suffered from depression. Anne has similar feelings about Bath.
I've watched about a dozen of these literature episodes. Fantastic and thank you. This is the first woman writer I've seen so far (yes these are from 2 years ago) and it also seems the shortest of these. I hope that's corrected as I go through the rest of these videos. Again, great work.
Jane Austen did not write/revise six novels, about 900,000 words, bent over a little round table, at Chawton Cottage.
Instead she wrote her novels on a portable writing desk given to her on her 19th birthday, by her father, and which she carried about with her the next 20+ years.
The round table would have just been a support table-Jane placing and unfolding the writing box/ portable writing desk;(currently at the Library)-on the table.
And it would be placed by the dining room window to give her sufficient light to write by.
Hey Schooloflife, perhaps an interesting idea for a video might be the dutch 'gezelligheid'? It's one of those cultural things you need to be part of to fully understand, but it would be nice to see it explained by you.
Charlotte bronte, jane austen or thomas hardy?
This is a fantastic channel. Please make *a video on Chanakya* (philosopher, economist, statesman) and other Asian + Indian philosophers.
As an athiest, i love philosophy. And simce you guys are really good at making philosophical videos, I have one request about religion. In almost all religions [That i know of] idolize old people, and I recently saw a video about hunter gather societies, from your feed, it said that in almost every hunter gather society old people were left behind since the couldn't keep up. Could it be posible that old people created religion so that they could be respected and not left behind? and if so, could it be possible that the newfound respect for old people, caused societies to slow down their pace so the elderly could keep up? could it be possible that slowing down our paces in tribes/societies gave rise to AGRICULTURE?? Is this already a well known theory? Could you please make a video on what you think?
+Ben Cadet Jared Diamond's 'Guns, Germs and Steel' has some interesting points on the reasons for moving to an agricultural society (factors like geography, ecology, climate etc). He seems to say the reverse of what you suggest: that agriculture causes the 'slow down', not the other way around. When agriculture started to produce surpluses, people could trade off mobility for food security, and populations started to live longer and expand. Oral history and religious traditions were obviously the norm in these early societies, and having no written records definitely favoured the elderly (having the most history to pass down).
+Ben Cadet I think the mainstream theory about agriculture is that domesticated plants and animals allowed populations to be larger than with nomadic lifestyles - as well as easier. Religion as a socioeconomic phenomenon, which is what you're suggesting, I've never really read around - but my belief is that religion acts as foundation through which the important factors in community (ritual, having things in common, morality) can be created. It's unlikely that any one interest group, like old people, could be responsible for the rise of religion, in multiple instances around the world.
+Ben Cadet as an atheist, i have no fucking idea why you started talking religion when the clip was about literature that never even mentioned religion in any way.
as an atheist, your discussion ignores the level of power religion give over the masses (whoever you are, death comes. and people are scared of that), whatever you mentioned might be an unintended side effect.
as an atheist, goodbye
Edit:
As an atheist. That's it.
+Ben Cadet What is your source about old people being left behind in hunter gatherer societies ?
+Ben Cadet Thinking without evidence equals fantasy.
really enjoying the Literature series, would love to see more!
Could you please do a video on George Orwell? He is a great novelist but also an excellent essayist! I think it would be really interesting if you guys did a feature on his ideas, imperialist point of view and his influences.
Which is your favourite: Mine is 5
1. Sense and Sensibility
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Emma
4. Mansfield Park
5. Persuasion
6. Northanger Abbey
I DO love Austen for her moral philosophy, but I love her equally for her humor. I'm grateful that she chose to write novels rather than sermons
This video was just beautiful!
Thank you for making it!
I really love this channel. I just subscribed the other day abs I can't get enough. I was just wondering, could you guys do a series on music, like you have for art and literature? Specifically an episode on Miles Davis? Again, thanks so much for what you do!
I frankly appreciate and foremost enjoy your work! however, would you guys mind making a video on
Franz Kafka ?
I believe he is an inspirational figure and certainly profoundly interesting.
Austen is ❤
I wish you could create videos as fast as I watch them.
OMG! I wait for this episode for a long time . Thanks the school of life :D (Dung Leo)
Jane Austen teaches us to be very nice.
George Eliot, plz!
The collage on 2:26, is it a reference to 'playing charades'? It made me remember a scene from Jane Eyre where Mr. Rochester and Blanche Ingram pose 'scenes' in the drawing room (complete with props and curtains for the entr'acte) and the audience guess the word it supposed to represent. It's supposed to be a fashionable drawing-room entertainment at that time.
And the reference of marrying without enough money brought the memory of Lydia Bennet and George Wickham's marriage in Pride and Prejudice; although the marriage is based on folly on the other side and compromise on the other... Great job on the video as always; I've only read Pride and Prejudice, but now I want to read them all! :D
I agree with #1 love should be a two-sided thing
Thanks!
Maybe a video about Dickens, a Christmas carol is one of my favourite books, with the morals of money and philanthropy.
I humbly beg you guys to do a video on Thomas Hardy. I have recently read Tess of the D'urbervilles, and even though it is not my first Hardy novel, it left such a mark in my soul and made me want to know more about this man
From my perspective much of what is said is true and valuable in real life.