she flies with her own wings

PRIDE & PREJUDICE | 2005

i really need one adaption to show how Darcy kinda attempts to flirt with Liz while she's visiting Jane at Netherfield like yes they add in the part where they discuss the "accomplished woman" but just once i wanna see an adaption where i think caroline is playing piano and he goes up to her and says this:

and she straight up is like ew no.

LIKE WHYYYYYYY THIS MAN TRIES DANCING WITH HER ON TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS AFTER THEY FIRST MEET AND MAYBE EVEN MORE SO AFTER THIS???? I NEED TO SEE DARCY CONTINUOUSLY ASK FOR HER HAND

Yes but Darcy doesn't kinda attempt to flirt with her. He straight up fully flirts with her and it's A+ quality flirting at that! His opening line is fantastic, and his closing one—"Indeed I do not dare"—is hot. And although she doesn't mean to flirt back, I think that anyone observing her response would consider it pro-level flirting as well. Their exchange is hottttt and it's a great example of A) how Darcy is socially adept and charming when he cares to be and B) why Darcy thinks Elizabeth is into him.

I love that the end of Pride and Prejudice is just the vindication of things sometimes being good, good all the way down. Lizzy struggles the last third of the novel with trying to reconcile what she thinks life is, as a self-professed cynic/realist/someone who is not going to fall into dumb traps that will ruin her happiness, and what she hopes it WILL be as a woman who has actually met the love of her life. And it ends up being all that she wanted and more. Darcy’s love is not only unchanged by all the things she was afraid would undo it, the depth and enduring quality of that love has been revealed to her by those very things. The end of the book confirms his generosity, his heart, his faithfulness in ways she could never dream of hoping for, and in those last several chapters desperately tries not to hope for, constantly tries to talk herself out of wanting or expecting. But it’s all true. He is handsome and he’s rich and marriageable, he checks all the standard boxes, but so much more importantly he’s also good and faithful and sensitive and endlessly generous and the most ultimately solid and trustworthy and good person she’s ever met in her entire life. And she gets to marry him! The fairy tale, in this case, is TRUE; her cynicism–and even her funniest most light-hearted truest jokes about the unfairness of the world were still a kind of cynicism–is not. I love it, it’s everything.

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Chapter 59 - Pride and Prejudice

“Forgive me, madam, for taking up so much of your time.”

PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005), dir. Joe Wright

You must know… surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I’d scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love–I love–I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on. Pride and Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright