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diff --git a/literature/geeky_mary_bennet.rst b/literature/geeky_mary_bennet.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0224db5 --- /dev/null +++ b/literature/geeky_mary_bennet.rst @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +Geeky Mary Bennet +################# + +:date: 2023-06-25T18:03:43 +:category: literature +:tags: review, austeniana, blogComment + +I have originally commented on “`Mr. Collins, a male lead??? Is +this possible?`_” by u/JenniferRAKim on That Site, but now I +think I would just leave it here as a prompt: + +.. _`Mr. Collins, a male lead??? Is this possible?`: + https://www.reddit.com/r/JaneAustenFF/comments/142qfn9/comment/jn89we8/ + +That’s one way, or of course if it leads to my preferred ship Mr +Collins/Mary Bennet (and religion taken seriously, not as an soon +to be discarded after thought). + +Something like “`Far Above Rubies`_” by Beatrice_Otter or “`Let +Her Own Works Praise Her in the Gates`_” by ChronicBookworm. + +I have in my head this scene:: + + INT. Netherfield dinning room, evening after the dinner, + small groups of people are talking, sound of general chatter in + the room. Camera wanders through the room looking at those + groups. MARY BENNET talks quietly with MR COLLINS. + Interrupted by + + MARY BENNET + (shrieking) + Mr Collins! + + MR DARCY, MR BENNET, some SOLDIERS run towards the pair + and threateningly surround them. + + MR BENNET + (threateningly) + Mary, what did he do? + + MARY BENNET + (looking excited, even perhaps a bit aroused, + face flushed, her bosom is heaving heavily) + Can you imagine? Mr Collins declared that he finds + interesting Luther’s concept of temporary existence of + the church rising up in the congregation of believers under + The Word being preached. How shocking! + + Camera slowly shows faces of people surrounding them, + completely confused and unbelieving what they hear. + +(BTW, Luther’s `concept of Church`_ is truly interesting, perhaps +not in the arousing level, but quite remarkable nevertheless). + +---- + +I don’t have a good plot, and most of the stuff have been already +written. There are two thoughts which I have, but these were +already written couple of times: + +* Elisabeth (or Mr Bennet, when Mr Collins comes for permission + to ask for her hand) suggest to Mr Collins that their marriage + is completely stupid idea, because: + + 1. there is absolutely no love from Elizabeth to him, + + 2. Elizabeth is constitutionally unfit to be a pastor’s wife + + 3. there is a third Bennet’s sister, Mary, for whom being a + pastor’s wife is actually a wet dream, and for whom visiting + sick parishioners would be the dream coming true. + + That was written by many, for example (aside from those + stories I linked before) “`If Only`_” by DesertVixen, “`The Second + Chance`_” by violet_baudelaire, or “`This is what we’ve sown`_” by + Kissed_by_Circe. + + That is however just a setup of the relationship, we could get + then to this relationship of two theology geeks (as shown in the + scene above; kind of Sheldon or Lisa Simpson meets theology), I + don’t have enough plot to make it into real story. + +* Alternative would be just opposite: yes, Mr Collins is as inept + as Miss Austen suggests he is, and all Bennets sisters unite + in one thing in their life and that is they don’t want to have + anything to do with him. In the end he is kicked away (and + marries Charlotte if you want, or marries a other random girl, + later from sexual frustration starts to visit prostitutes, gets + STD, and dies as complete wreck in the ruins of his supposedly + holy life). + + Fortunately, whole issue of entail is made moot by three + sisters marrying and two of them very well (Jane and Elisabeth) + as in the canon. In the end, nobody knows what to do with Mary + (and her parents are getting too old and sick to take care + for her), so she moves to live with Elisabeth and Mr Darcy at + Pemberley. There she meets some distant cousin (or some random + man) of Mr Darcy who is a theology student, and Amy Farrah + Fowler meets her Sheldon Cooper with geekiness abounding. With + “a little” help of Mr Darcy, the guy (now all done pastor) gets + a position of the pastor for the church in Lambton and they get + their HEA perhaps combined with happily observing the ruin of Mr + Collins, bankruptcy of completely incompetent Lady Catherine de + Bourgh etc. + + And of course, the Regency Era was also time of `William + Wilberforce`_, `Clapham Sect`_, or for the more social work + part of the Church `Sunday School Society`_. Why they cannot + participate in that and make it slightly cross-over with those + real movements? Something like that is suggested in “Let Her Own + Works Praise Her in the Gates”, but I think one could make a lot + of fun with it more. + +The End + +---- + +.. _`Far Above Rubies`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/15181952 + +.. _`Let Her Own Works Praise Her in the Gates`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/15122771 + +.. _`If Only`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/20184559 + +.. _`The Second Chance`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/1014291 + +.. _`This is what we’ve sown`: + https://archiveofourown.org/works/43535736 + +.. _`concept of Church`: + https://www.biblicaltraining.org/learn/institute/ch643-martin-luther/ch643-18-luthers-view-of-the-church + +.. _`William Wilberforce`: + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce + +.. _`Clapham Sect`: + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham_Sect + +.. _`Sunday School Society`: + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_School_Society |