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What I sometimes wonder is if our perceptions of her characters are too coloured or influenced by watching modern adaptations?
I can’t speak for others but the pictures I have in my mind of these characters do not usually match the actors who played them in the adaptions. Maybe part of that is because I watched at least two for each book within a relatively short amount of time so they weren’t able to replace the pictures I had in my head.
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Elizabeth was but tolerable in looks until the intelligence in her dark eyes attracted Darcy's interest rather than her pretty looks.
That was true in Darcy’s case but I got the impression most people
do think Lizzy is pretty – just not as pretty as Jane.
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Did Jane Austen stereotype her villains this way purposely?
Henry Crawford does not fit this stereotype.
