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we get to hear it and read the words where we don’t exactly see other proposals, just hearing they happen

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It can be both! Anne’s desire is somewhat fulfilled in that she is able to see he still has some regard for her comfort, but she doesn’t understand why yet, and that is frustrating to her.

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I think it’s unfulfilled in a pre-fulfilled build up way, like fulfilled desire literary foreplay

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insightful, deliberate, and sensible

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Yes, introversion isn’t a character flaw.

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reserved, creative, determined (lol)

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insightfully badass (please consider badass to be two words)

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I think it’s important to note the class difference between the two. Anne’s class status gives her the ability to be heard if she wants to, and she garners the respect of those around her when she does speak, but they respect her silence as well. Fanny’s cousins view her silence as a sign of poor education, which she is mocked for, but she cannot improve her position by speaking.

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It’s desire unfulfilled, I think. It’s referential to a sensual/sexual desire, but that desire isn’t necessary fulfilled, just alluded to and possibly foreshadowed here through “release.”

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I feel Anne’s silence matches the way Austen inteded her character to behave in the novel. I think if you “fixed” her silence, her character would no longer be compatible with Austen’s story. I think it will be fixed if we were to do another book after she married the captain. He sort of brings her out of it.

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i think she is waiting for someone to help her with the child desiring a relief but then the way that desire is fulfilled it is so unexpected that it leaves her with a desire unfulfilled 😏

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Yes, I think that silence can often be a strength and Austen clearly recognizes that.

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I think it’s a desire unfulfilled

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Anne is a lot farther along in her journey in terms of gaining confidence/more settled into herself. Characters looked to Anne for guidance in a way characters didn’t really look to Fanny.

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Anne is the one that had to find Captain Wentworth opposed to him coming to her with a proposal

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outwardly they may appear similar, but internally their motivations and ideals are different.

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yes!

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I agree that Fanny’s silence seems to come from a place of anxiety while Anne’s seems to be more contemplative

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yes! it’s a character trait not a character flaw.

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yes i think that she is a silent character who’s value is in her rich internal monologue