Originally posted by: Samanalyse
I love that the literary references on this thread match my personal canon of favourites. 😃
Sam & Shaavi, I wish I could super like this discussion. Sona and Dev had a serious Lizzy-Darcy vibe in S1, especially when his seriousness was conrasted with her humour, and when Dev was slowly learning to develop his own dry wit. Luckily for their Regency era counterparts, Lady Catherine DeBourgh didn't live with Darcy, and P&P was a finite novel, otherwise we might well have seen a similar outcome to Lizzy and Darcy's marriage, god forbid. 😕😆
This is why I prefer watching a movie or read a book. I can try and study a character and decide how and why they act. Here, the makers can twist things and I am left feeling short-changedThere is one line in particular that I felt applied to Dev beautifully at that time (around confession). Darcy says, "As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit." In one sentence, Austen sums up why we always saw such a huge difference between Dev's intentions and the outcome of his actions -- he wasn't taught the proper execution for what he knew was right and instead operated on the assumption that because he had good principles, anything he did must be right.
As you so wonderfully pointed out, Sona is in a very similar place now. She assumes that because she has the right principles, she can't falter. And it's true that she has good principles but she is following them in pride and conceit, which is causing her to be blind to the possibly wrong effects of her "right" actions.