ANTH 3030 Chapter : CLOSE READING 2.doc
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It is evident throughout persuasion that austen"s characters are incapable of feeling emotions singularly. This is most apparent when pertaining to anne elliot and her love for wentworth. There is the idea that, in persuasion, the characters cannot feel just one individual emotion; they are often associated with another emotion, usually of the same severity. She was very much affected by the view of his disposition towards her, which all these things made apparent. This little circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone on before (61). Anne seems to be content however, with the fact that though wentworth"s attentions are with another (or so anne and company seem to think), and though he could not forgive her that. Thus, anne is happy with this knowledge; it was. Proof of his own warm and amiable heart (61), and because of her love for him, anne cannot feel just one individual emotion towards her situation with wentworth.
