Naturally, I would say the ever-so dashing Mr. Darcy, but lately I've been nursing a soft spot for Henry Tilney. He's so lively and flirtatious compared to the other, more brooding men. I could see myself actually falling for a guy like that in real life, whereas I find Darcy and Wentworth way too good to be true.
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If we now start to like flirtacious men, then we should maybe include Mr Frank Churchill from Emma. He was so lovely and played so wll by Raymond Coulthard...
*swoon*
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Ooo! Wentworth and Darcy are back as neck and neck.
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Ooh I voted ages ago. Perhaps we can have more than one vote if others have been added, i.e. Colonel Brandon? It's so hard to choose just one......
Darcy or Wentworth?
Darcy's ability to reform and his assistance with Jane and Lydia are both huge positives, but Wentworth's letter (not to mention the 8 years of consistent love)...
I think I have to vote Darcy, but it's a very difficult decision
(I also like Tilney and Brandon, but not nearly as much as Darcy/Wentworth)
I'm very excited - just ordered Austen's Complete Works (Hardback)... can't wait to re-read
Last edited by Jazz_; 01-05-2010 at 02:48 AM.
At first I was going to vote for Mr. Knightly. I know some think he lectures, but he does have a sense of humor - though more towards the end. And, for some unknown reason, the chap. where he meets Emma after finding out about Churchill's engagement always gets to me.
But, having only read "Persuasion" once and "Emma" about three times maybe I'll see why Wentworth's so high with most of you. How long is the poll open?
(Have read all the books, some several times)
I voted for Wentworth. His letter at the end got me; "you pierce my soul". Intense, (for Austen).
"...You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?..." E. A. Poe
Yes, and Wentworth is in the lead again with one length!!
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
woohoo!!!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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Let's close the thread
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
nah! we gotta keep it going!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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Yep, definitely Darcy or Wentworth (Wentworth in my case, naturally). I have just finished Northanger Abbey and have now met Henry Tilney. I must say, he charms the pants off you (*blush*, not literally of course) and he is smart, funny, lovely and sarcastic, his speech can be ever so acute and funny, but als endearing and sincere, but the other two are just that little bit better.
Tilney is just the man whom you are terrified of the first time you meet him, because you don't know what strange thing he's going to say next and if he is making fun of you or not. And his mind is so quick (the hyacinth and rose-thing, that was great!).
But that aside, my table goes as follows:
1 Wentworth
1,5 Darcy
2 Tilney
3 Brandon
4 Ferrars
...
10 Thorpe ()
Although I still have to read Mansfield Park and then I'm through.
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
Better get to it!Originally Posted by kiki1982
Although I still have to read Mansfield Park and then I'm through
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
It seems to be simply between Wentworth and Darcy (won't discount Knightley though)
Since I couldn't decide - like many others here it seems - I had to base this decision on how many times I have read each novel.
Thus...Darcy wins in my eyes.
'He once had an awkward moment. Just to see what it felt like'
I have recently read Emma and found out that George Knightley has a very strong character. But he got only 6 votes how very sad!
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