The Lessons of Time and SpaceThe Lessons of Time and Space

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What does autumn

mean to you ?

What is the meaning of time for Elizabeth ?

«Thirteen winters’ revolving frosts had seen every ball of credit which a scanty neighbourhood afforded; and thirteen springs shewn their blossoms, as she travelled up to London with had the rememberance of all this; she had the consciousness of being nine- and-twenty, to give her some regrets and some apprehensions.She was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever; but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelve-month or two.» ( Austen 4)

Elizabeth’s Anger for

Time

«This very awkward history of Mr Elliot, was still, after an interval of several years, felt with anger by Elizabeth, who had liked the man for himself, and still more for being her father’s heir, and whose strong family pride could see only in him, a proper match for Sir Walter Elliot’s eldest daughter.There was not a Baronet from A to Z, whom her feelings could have so willingly acknowledged as an equal.Yet so miserably had he conducted himself, that though she was at this present time, ( the summer of 1814), wearing black ribbons for his wife, she could not admit him to be worth thinking of again.» ( Austen 5 )

Before autumn , the summer comes …

«Captain Frederick Wentworth, his brother, who being made commander in consequence of the action off St Domingo, and not immediately employed, had come into Somersetshire, in the summer of 1806; and having no parent living, found a home for half a year, at Mankford.He was, at that time, a remarkably fine young man, with a great deal of intelligence, spirit and brillancy; and Anne an extremely pretty girl, with gentleness, modesty, taste and feeling.» ( Austen 18 )

and sometimes

time means grief…

Anne Elliot, with all her claims of birth, beauty,

and mind, to throw herself at nineteen in an engagement with a young man, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining affluence, but in the chances of a most uncertain profession, and no connexions to secure even his farther rise in that profession; would be, indeed, a throwing away, which she grieved to think of !» ( Austen Jane 18)

Time is like a medicine…

«More than seven years were gone since this

little history of sorrowful interest had reached its close; and time had softened down much, perhaps nearly all of peculiar attachment to him.» ( Austen 19)

Time gives a lesson

…

«How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been, -

how eloquent, at least, were her wishes on the side of early warm attachment, and a cheerful confidence in futurity, against that over anxious caution which seems to insult exertion and distrust Providence! – She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older – the natural sequel of an unnatural begining .» ( Austen 21)

The autumn is like a

leaf andAnne falls…

« Anne, though dreading the possible heats of

September in all the white glare of Bath, and grieving to forego all the influence so sweet and so sad of the autumnal months in the country, did not think that, every thing considered, she wished to remain.It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore, must involve least suffering, to go with the others.» ( Austen 23 )

Both time and space

alter Anne…but…

« «Altered beyond his knowledge!» Anne fully

submitted, in silent, deep mortification.Doubtless it was so; and she could take no revenge, for he was not altered, or not for the worse.She had already acknowledged it to herself, and she could not think differently, let him think of as he would.No; the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages.She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth» ( Austen 44)

The pleasure

of Autumn

« Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the

exercise and the day from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn that season of peculiar and inexhaustable influence on the mind of taste and tenderness, that season which has drawn from every poet, worthy of being read, some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.» ( Austen 61)

The hope

of Autumn

« -You are never sure of a good impression being

durable.Every body may sway it; let those who would be happy be firm.-Here is a nut,»said he, catching one down from an upper bough. «To exemplify,- a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn .Not a puncture, not a weak spot any where.- This nut,» he continued with playful solemnity,- while so many of its brethren have fallen and been trodden under foot, is still in possession of all the happiness that a hazel-nut can be supposed capable of.»» ( Austen 64)

Sometimes , in

autumn a flower grows like

Anne…

«She was looking remarkably well; her very

regular, very pretty features, having the bloom and freshness of youth restored by the fine wind which had been blowing on her complexion, and by the animation of eye which it had also produced.» (Austen 77)

Time changes people’s fate …

«Twelve years had changed Anne from the blooming,

silent,unformed girl of fifteen , to the elegant little woman of seven and twenty, with every beauty excepting bloom, and with manners as consciously right as they were invariably gentle; and twelve years had transformed the fine-looking, well grown Miss Hamilton, in all the glow of health and confidence of superiority, into a poor, infirm, helpless widow, receiving the visit of her former protégée as a favour; but all that was uncomfortable in the meeting had soon passed away, and left only the interesting charm of remembering former partialities and talking over old times.» ( Austen 112 )