Which Jane Austen Character are you?

[Snowqueen]

So, Which Jane Austen character are you?

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/07/jane-austen-quiz/


I'm Elizabeth Bennet.


Everyone’s favourite heroine, you’re witty, clever, and great company – and, of course, have a rather lovely pair of eyes, if you don’t mind us saying so.


I don't mind it, of course!

[kiki1982]

I'm Emma Woodhouse! :lol: Of course, I NEVER EVER jump to the wrong conclusion! Where did they get that from? How dare they!

[Lokasenna]

I'm Darcy, apparently. Did not see that one coming.

I've always thought myself to be more in a Wentworth vein...

[Helga]

I was Elizabeth Bennet but I also took the male version , I am Edmund Bertram....

[prendrelemick]

I got "Error on page." That could be Emma as well.

[Snowqueen]

I'm Emma Woodhouse! :lol: Of course, I NEVER EVER jump to the wrong conclusion! Where did they get that from? How dare they!


I was Elizabeth Bennet but I also took the male version , I am Edmund Bertram....

:lol: Well played, Kiki and Helga!


I'm Darcy, apparently. Did not see that one coming.

I've always thought myself to be more in a Wentworth vein...

I think Darcy is not bad either. Well, my favourite is Mr. Knightley.


I got "Error on page." That could be Emma as well.

Lol. You better try it again then.

[qimissung]

Marianne Dashwood...didn't see that one coming at all, as Loka said!

Edmund Bertram!? Well, if I have to be solemn, at least I am also wise (and thank God not William Collins)

[mona amon]

Yay! I'm Lizzy Bennet too!

As a male I'm Charles Bingley! Never would have guessed. :D

[kiki1982]

I'm Darcy when I do male!

It must be the sad state I'm in when I meet strangers... Unobservant too. Hum. I better examine myself then, don't I.

[Hawkman]

I'm afraid I'd be Mr Knightly. A bit dull and steady perhaps, but his heart's in the right place and he does get to tell Emma off :D I once had a girlfriend who referred to me as her Mr Knightly, but then, she was quite barking! :D I'm also just a little more caustic these days.

[qimissung]

I'm afraid I'd be Mr Knightly. A bit dull and steady perhaps, but his heart's in the right place and he does get to tell Emma off :D I once had a girlfriend who referred to me as her Mr Knightly, but then, she was quite barking! :D I'm also just a little more caustic these days.

It's quite a short test, Hawkman. No real reason not to try this one. :D

[Hawkman]

You know, I keep missing the fact that there's a link to a quiz in the initial post! Consequently I just try to put myself in the most realistic category.

Having taken the quiz I turned out to be Darcy, which isn't really me; I don't have his money for a start. I rather got the feeling that the questions were weighted to steer one to a predetermined destination.

[Ecurb]

Strange. I took the quiz and it said I was most like John Thorpe.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I'm Anne Elliot.

How did that happen?

[L.M. The Third]

It's so cruel of them to include reprehensible characters. ;) I was pleased to get who I have always identified with: Emma. Not so pleased to get Elton for the male. When I take this quiz I always get Elizabeth Bennet: http://www.strangegirl.com/emma/quiz.php

[Snowqueen]

I'm Anne Elliot.

How did that happen?

Haha! Now you owe us some explanation. But I’m glad somebody got Anne Elliot.

It reminds me that I have to take the other test. Let’s see……

Oh, I’m Darcy too.

Congratulations, you’ve ended up as one of the most loved romantic heroes of all time.

[kiki1982]

Strange. I took the quiz and it said I was most like John Thorpe.

Oooo, not flattering. Tell me, do you read novels at all? :D


It's so cruel of them to include reprehensible characters. ;) I was pleased to get who I have always identified with: Emma. Not so pleased to get Elton for the male. When I take this quiz I always get Elizabeth Bennet: http://www.strangegirl.com/emma/quiz.php

I get Elinor Dashwood... I'd rather be Emma, actually.

[Ecurb]

Oooo, not flattering. Tell me, do you read novels at all? :D

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I have better things to do. I tried "Camilla" once, but there is nothing in the world in it but an old man's playing at see-saw and learning Latin; upon my soul there is not. Also, what do you mean by "not flattering"? John Thorpe has one of the most tippety pairs I've seen; they go 40 miles in 4 hours, and are barely breathing hard at the end of them.

[kiki1982]

:lol:

[qimissung]

It's so cruel of them to include reprehensible characters. ;) I was pleased to get who I have always identified with: Emma. Not so pleased to get Elton for the male. When I take this quiz I always get Elizabeth Bennet: http://www.strangegirl.com/emma/quiz.php

The results of this quiz: I'm Elinor Dashwood. Which is who I think I most resemble. And actually, Elinor is, I think, Edmund with Marianne squished up and locked inside. So it works out. :D

[Ecurb]

The results of this quiz: I'm Elinor Dashwood. Which is who I think I most resemble. And actually, Elinor is, I think, Edmund with Marianne squished up and locked inside. So it works out. :D

Since you are Elinor, I'd just like to ask what you see in Edward Ferrars? I've never figured that one out. I've never figured out why your beautiful sister Marianne likes that old fuddy duddy Brandon, either. I mean, why DID Colonel Brandon talk about flannel waistcoats in front of some seventeen-year-old girl he admired? Does he have no idea how to recommend himself to teenage girls?

ON a more serious note, I see Brandon as one of Austen's failures (same with Edward, but who cares about him and Elinor anyway). The reader can see what she's getting at: he's supposed to be a brooding, romantic figure, broken hearted and bitter about his past, but kindly and romantic. He never quite pulls it off, though. I think the reason is that we hear so much about him from others, and see so little of him as an "on stage" character. His major apperances are when he is reciting his woes to Elinor, or wet blanketing some party by his appearance. When Willoughby and Marianne make fun of him, we readers agree -- and he never quite overcomes our idea that he's a wet blanket. He's always looking "meloncholy" or "grave".

Even when Willoughby is out of the picture, Brandon can't quite drum up much manly enthusiasim for his pursuit of Marianne:


"A three week's residence at Delaford, where, in the evening hours at least, he had little to do but to calculate the disproportion between thery-six and seventeen, brought him to Barton in a temper of mind which needed all the improvement in Marianne's looks, all the kindness of her welcome, and all the encouragement of her mother's language, to make it cheerful."

Boo! Hiss! This reluctant, depressing, unenthusiastic geezer is beautiful, romantic Marianne's future husband? I miss the old, unregenerate Marianne, yucking it up with Willoughby about how Brandon is a bore. How right she was! True: he has some good qualities -- but I cannot approve the match!

[*Classic*Charm*]

I am Marianne Dashwood. Which is so very, very wrong.

For a male I got Edmund Bertram. Which is the other end of the spectrum.

Clearly this quiz is not asking the right questions hahaha

[kiki1982]

Since you are Elinor, I'd just like to ask what you see in Edward Ferrars? I've never figured that one out. I've never figured out why your beautiful sister Marianne likes that old fuddy duddy Brandon, either. I mean, why DID Colonel Brandon talk about flannel waistcoats in front of some seventeen-year-old girl he admired? Does he have no idea how to recommend himself to teenage girls?

ON a more serious note, I see Brandon as one of Austen's failures (same with Edward, but who cares about him and Elinor anyway). The reader can see what she's getting at: he's supposed to be a brooding, romantic figure, broken hearted and bitter about his past, but kindly and romantic. He never quite pulls it off, though. I think the reason is that we hear so much about him from others, and see so little of him as an "on stage" character. His major apperances are when he is reciting his woes to Elinor, or wet blanketing some party by his appearance. When Willoughby and Marianne make fun of him, we readers agree -- and he never quite overcomes our idea that he's a wet blanket. He's always looking "meloncholy" or "grave".

Even when Willoughby is out of the picture, Brandon can't quite drum up much manly enthusiasim for his pursuit of Marianne:

Boo! Hiss! This reluctant, depressing, unenthusiastic geezer is beautiful, romantic Marianne's future husband? I miss the old, unregenerate Marianne, yucking it up with Willoughby about how Brandon is a bore. How right she was! True: he has some good qualities -- but I cannot approve the match!

Oh, that's a bit unfair. He's your typical sensitive reserved man. A bit like Darcy, but less imposing.

In Vanity Fair, there is another wet blanket like that: Major Dobbin. Although he's more frustrating, because he would just let his pwn proposal go for someone else to propose to the very same woman, BUT he is definitely the best and most constant man you could have. When one character said that Major Dobbin was one of the bravest officers in his regiment, another character commented that he didn't think he would say bo to a goose (literally).

That's your Colonel Brandon right there. He is not as dashing and easy as Willoughby, but he's definitely got feelings. A bit sad that no-one recognises them (like Elinor's really).
But I agree with you that it would have been beneficial for that character to be put on the forefront a little bit more. He would have been more appreciated.

I find that passage about 'a three week's absence...' the most highly amusing bit ever. It highlights his haplessness, insecurity and his own lack of self-observation.

[Annamariah]

I took the first test and it said I'm Marianne Dashwood. Then I tried the other one, and it said I'm ELINOR Dashwood. I guess that means I've got both sense AND sensibility then, right? :D

[prendrelemick]

Since you are Elinor, I'd just like to ask what you see in Edward Ferrars? I've never figured that one out. I've never figured out why your beautiful sister Marianne likes that old fuddy duddy Brandon, either. I mean, why DID Colonel Brandon talk about flannel waistcoats in front of some seventeen-year-old girl he admired? Does he have no idea how to recommend himself to teenage girls?

ON a more serious note, I see Brandon as one of Austen's failures (same with Edward, but who cares about him and Elinor anyway). The reader can see what she's getting at: he's supposed to be a brooding, romantic figure, broken hearted and bitter about his past, but kindly and romantic. He never quite pulls it off, though. I think the reason is that we hear so much about him from others, and see so little of him as an "on stage" character. His major apperances are when he is reciting his woes to Elinor, or wet blanketing some party by his appearance. When Willoughby and Marianne make fun of him, we readers agree -- and he never quite overcomes our idea that he's a wet blanket. He's always looking "meloncholy" or "grave".

Even when Willoughby is out of the picture, Brandon can't quite drum up much manly enthusiasim for his pursuit of Marianne:



Boo! Hiss! This reluctant, depressing, unenthusiastic geezer is beautiful, romantic Marianne's future husband? I miss the old, unregenerate Marianne, yucking it up with Willoughby about how Brandon is a bore. How right she was! True: he has some good qualities -- but I cannot approve the match!

He gets her on the rebound AND she's looking for a substitute father - the lucky dog!

[qimissung]

Since you are Elinor, I'd just like to ask what you see in Edward Ferrars? I've never figured that one out. I've never figured out why your beautiful sister Marianne likes that old fuddy duddy Brandon, either. I mean, why DID Colonel Brandon talk about flannel waistcoats in front of some seventeen-year-old girl he admired? Does he have no idea how to recommend himself to teenage girls?

ON a more serious note, I see Brandon as one of Austen's failures (same with Edward, but who cares about him and Elinor anyway). The reader can see what she's getting at: he's supposed to be a brooding, romantic figure, broken hearted and bitter about his past, but kindly and romantic. He never quite pulls it off, though. I think the reason is that we hear so much about him from others, and see so little of him as an "on stage" character. His major apperances are when he is reciting his woes to Elinor, or wet blanketing some party by his appearance. When Willoughby and Marianne make fun of him, we readers agree -- and he never quite overcomes our idea that he's a wet blanket. He's always looking "meloncholy" or "grave".

Even when Willoughby is out of the picture, Brandon can't quite drum up much manly enthusiasim for his pursuit of Marianne:



Boo! Hiss! This reluctant, depressing, unenthusiastic geezer is beautiful, romantic Marianne's future husband? I miss the old, unregenerate Marianne, yucking it up with Willoughby about how Brandon is a bore. How right she was! True: he has some good qualities -- but I cannot approve the match!

This is what I love about Jane Austen. Women seem determined to see her as a literary romance novelist, but that's not the case at all. Her books have acute psychological depth, and her characters are very real and often flawed. Whether they are the heroes, the heroines, the cads, the villains, they are revealed, flaws and all.

Did Marianne love Brandon? Did she recover from her illness a wiser young woman? Did the blinders fall from her eyes? In other words, did she see Willoughby for the charming cad he really was, and in some time not shown in the book, see Brandon for the stable, kind, reliable man he really was? It is unfortunate that Marianne's spirit seems diminished. Maybe under other circumstances she might have grown into an Auntie Mame or Molly Brown type character; on the other hand she may have become a more sober person. I have seen it happen both ways.

As it is, I kind of like to think that Marianne's vivacity will revive as her broken heart heals, and that she will bring some light and joy into Colonel Brandon's life. God knows he needs some. And that for his part, Brandon will undoubtedly bring a degree of much needed and constancy love as well as financial stability into her life. Oh fortunate Marianne, to have a man who would ride horseback a thousand miles and back for her!

[Jackson Richardson]

I identified with Catherine Morland as a teenage boy.

On the quiz I came out as Mr Elton. (I'd never have anyone as ghastly as Mrs Elton for my partner.)

And doing the quiz as a female (I'm a gay man) I came out as Marianne Dashwood. The shame, the shame. I've always despised romantic excess - that's why I love Jane Austen in the first place and can't be doing with the Brontes.

I was Anne Elliot on the alternative test.

Edward Ferrars is a bit of a blank, isn't he? But I'm deeply concerned about Elinor. She has to put up with as much heart ache as self indulgent, selfish Marianne, but can't let on.

But Sense and Sensibillity is JA's least satisfying work to my mind.

[prendrelemick]

Well, I keep getting "error on page". On the good side I get to choose my own Austinian life.


So I can be a young Wiloughby and after a dalliance with Emma, marry Catherine Morland who then matures into a Liz Bennett as I inherit Pemberley (after a paternity suit)and become Darcy. We then settle down and have many children until I suddenly remember a Navy career that had slipped my mind and I am infact Captain Wentworth, and live happily ever after with my wife who has gracefully aged into Anne Elliot.

[*Classic*Charm*]

Well, I keep getting "error on page". On the good side I get to choose my own Austinian life.


So I can be a young Wiloughby and after a dalliance with Emma, marry Catherine Morland who then matures into a Liz Bennett as I inherit Pemberley (after a paternity suit)and become Darcy. We then settle down and have many children until I suddenly remember a Navy career that had slipped my mind and I am infact Captain Wentworth, and live happily ever after with my wife who has gracefully aged into Anne Elliot.

Amazing hahaha

[Ecurb]

This is what I love about Jane Austen. Women seem determined to see her as a literary romance novelist, but that's not the case at all. Her books have acute psychological depth, and her characters are very real and often flawed. Whether they are the heroes, the heroines, the cads, the villains, they are revealed, flaws and all.

Did Marianne love Brandon? Did she recover from her illness a wiser young woman? Did the blinders fall from her eyes? In other words, did she see Willoughby for the charming cad he really was, and in some time not shown in the book, see Brandon for the stable, kind, reliable man he really was? It is unfortunate that Marianne's spirit seems diminished. Maybe under other circumstances she might have grown into an Auntie Mame or Molly Brown type character; on the other hand she may have become a more sober person. I have seen it happen both ways.

As it is, I kind of like to think that Marianne's vivacity will revive as her broken heart heals, and that she will bring some light and joy into Colonel Brandon's life. God knows he needs some. And that for his part, Brandon will undoubtedly bring a degree of much needed and constancy love as well as financial stability into her life. Oh fortunate Marianne, to have a man who would ride horseback a thousand miles and back for her!

I've been away mountain climbing (or I would have responded sooner). Of course I agree that it's silly to see Jane Austen as a romance novelist (although all of her novels revolve around young women finding a mate). Let's look at what Anne says to Benwick in "Persuasion": “It is the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.” So the imaginative and romantic have to be restrained and controlled by reason, for they are dangerous. Marianne is almost destroyed by giving precedence to her romantic sensibilities. Catherine, Elizabeth and Emma all fall into mistakes and delusions through their overactive imaginations. Anne lives in a dream world, where life is seen from the outside, where the key conversations are all overheard, rather than participated in. Even Fanny recognizes the danger of the play, and comes closest to being seduced when Crawford reads from Shakespeare.

Austen sees the danger of poetry and plays not because she disliked these forms of imaginative entertainment (in my opinion), but because she liked them too much. In order to practice her art (my theory goes), she had to restrain her imaginative tendencies, and discipline herself (as do her heroines) to realism. Nonetheless, as a man even older than Colonel Brandon (shocking, I know), I continue to admire beautiful young women who are full of enthusiasm for literature and music. Such imaginative fancies may be dangerous (as they prove to be for Marianne, Emma, and Catherine), but life itself is dangerous, and we must make the best of it.