Document Type
Paper
Publication Date
Spring 2024
Abstract
While Anita Brookner might deny a connection between her characters and those of Jane Austen, placing Brookner’s Hotel du Lac and Austen’s Persuasion in conversation with one another reveals how similarly their protagonists are shaped. Edith Hope and Anne Elliot are both characters who make choices based on a high opinion of love that has been cultivated through the various interactions they have with the single, married, and widowed people in their lives. This paper seeks to investigate these relationships to understand why the two women respond so differently to the marriage proposals they receive at the end of their respective novels.
Recommended Citation
Cook, Jillian, "To Do or Not to Do: Anne Elliot and Edith Hope’s Evolving Perceptions of Marriage in Persuasion and Hotel Du Lac" (2024). English Senior Capstone. 35.
https://pillars.taylor.edu/english-student/35
Notes
Course: ENG 493, Senior Capstone (Dr. Aaron Housholder)
Faculty Project Advisor: Dr. Lorne Mook