Who would you choose - Jane Austen or the Brontë sisters?
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Re: Who would you choose - Jane Austen or the Brontë sisters
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My biggest gripe with Austen is that her books are so long but you can't say what happened of importance. If filler would be taken out, I might enjoy her works more.
The Brontë sisters on the other hand do something different with their work. They create breathing characters with incredibly human struggles surrounded by an atmosphere of constant suspense. They too have some paragraphs of filler, but they weave the signatures of Gothic Romance into those too, which carry you through without minding them being there.
I say Brontë sisters by far. I suppose I'm prejudiced though; gothic romantice is my favorite genre (pun intended).
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I like Anne and Charlotte Brontes work well enough, but I can't stand Wuthering Heights. But I feel the Brontes are a bit... melodramatic I guess, at times, and I feel some of their books are just not very memorable, while I like pretty much everything of Austen.
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(My favorite book of all time is Jane Eyre)
Especially Charlotte Bronte, she gives a darker element to her stories that I've never felt from an Austen novel. It's as if Charlotte Bronte delves into the world in almost a gritty way, showing true pain and hardship. She does this but she uses it to add a dimension of feeling and involvement in her novels that keep me coming back to re-experience the intense emotion. Jane Austen novels are very light and quite surface level. Don't get me wrong, I adore Pride and Prejudice but it is very much social drama accompanied by excessive letter writing as well as winning and dinning.
That being said, I do enjoy the way Austen constructs her dialogue and character interactions. It all flows very naturally for me. She just doesn't construct settings and emotion in the way that the Bronte sisters can do.
In the end I would say that the Bronte sisters are more of a Dark Knight batman film and Jane Austen creates more of an Adam West vibe.
Is that a ridiculous comparison?
Maybe, but I'm sticking with it.
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