Alelou wrote:Well, I'd say T'Pol and Trip are a lot closer to Elinor and Edward than they are to Marianne and Willoughby or even Marianne and Col. Brandon.
Okay, which Austen heroine is T'Pol most like? Hmm. Anne Eliot, I think, though she definitely has a touch of Lizzie Bennett's biting sarcasm. And Trip? Frederick Wentworth, I think, complete with the flirting with other women and the touch of resentfulness. Yep, Persuasion is the best match for them. That's my theory.
I was kind of in a hurry when I wrote my last post. I saw Sense and Sensibility on television yesterday and it struck me that Marianne is for me the stereotype of a romantic. Totally in love, but forgetting common sense and logic, almost hysterical. So I wanted to say, I can't relate very much to Marianne, but much more to Elenor. Any way, not really interesting, but we can always start a Jane Austen-thread.