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Willoughby's punishment for his treatment of Marianne is to spend the rest of his life married to a woman he does not even like, and to know that his bad behaviour lost him the woman he did love. He elicits Elinor's pity because his choice has made him unhappy, but she is disgusted by the callous way in which he talks of Miss Williams and his ...
Willoughby is with another woman and greets Marianne coldly, later informing her of his engagement to the rich Miss Grey. Marianne is distraught but admits to Elinor that she and Willoughby never were actually engaged. Colonel Brandon now reveals to Elinor that Willoughby had earlier seduced and abandoned Brandon's teenaged ward, Eliza Williams.
In this version of the story, Marianne falls into a rain-swollen creek and is attacked by an octopus, from which she is rescued by John Willoughby, a dashing adventurer and deep-sea diver who has come to the archipelago to visit his aunt. However, their budding romance is interrupted when Willoughby is called away to the undersea city of Sub ...
Willoughby ends up married to a woman who bores him.The even worse scumbag of Pride and Prejudice, George Wickham, makes a strategic marriage to a 15-year-old that seems destined for unhappiness ...
As for the unscrupulous Willoughby, he candidly admits to Elinor that he married Miss Grey for her comfortable dowry of £50,000 ("in honest words, her money was necessary to me"). [97] Even though his punishment is to live with the eternal regret of losing Marianne Dashwood , Austen grants him a reasonable "degree of domestic happiness" ("no ...
Nearly three decades after being nominated for an Oscar, British actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste is back in the awards race thanks to a tremendous performance in director Mike Leigh's new drama ...
The title of Mike Leigh’s latest movie, “Hard Truths,” suggests a remarkable, career-spanning consistency, tracing back to the stage and screen director’s 1971 big-screen debut, “Bleak ...
Marianne Dashwood (eventually Marianne Brandon) is a fictional character in Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility. The 16-year-old second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood, she mostly embodies the " sensibility " of the title, as opposed to her elder sister Elinor's "sense".