Literally How Would You Even Respond In A Modern Context If You Overheard A Dude You Just Met 20 Minutes

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I think they certainly did make more aspects of the regency era more dramatic in bridgerton and I'm certainly no expert of this era but I think back in the regency era a man and a women 'sneaking away' (It'd probably look that way to most) to a dark corner in a garden or a room during a ball that they attended chaperoned would probably have been improper back in the actually regency era.

I think they difference is that Mr. Darcy actually called on Elizabeth and there was always the servants in/outside the room to kinda keep watch and they didn't just sneak away multiple times during a ball which was held at night to some room nobody else was in or going to enter. And they couple times they met in the gardens in the book wouldn't have been improper I don't think because it was during the day and they would have been in view of the house the whole time.

But again I'm not a pro at this so I could be completely wrong.

Perhaps this question has been posed before, but it’s been on my mind since the TV adaptation of bridgerton came out: one of the central conflicts of that show centers around the idea that gentry women can’t be around men unchaperoned. The show/source material are partially inspired by Jane Austen and regency aesthetics, but when i think about Pride and Prejudice there are many pivotal scenes where Elizabeth is alone with men and it’s not treated as scandalous. From my reading, the scandal usually stems from actual implications of seduction, ie; the way wickham absconds with much younger girls.

This isn’t to say the period didn’t have strict social rules, but the social rules in bridgerton have always seemed more Victorian/Edwardian to me than regency. I don’t know if those vibes are accurate or just my assumptions. When Elizabeth is alone with Darcy at the Collins’ or at the inn in Lambton, as far as I can remember there’s no real comment on the propriety of the situation. I don’t know if this is an actual reflection of what was appropriate during the time or if Austen is bending the rules for her narrative.

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I know this isn’t a controversial opinion, but Mr Darcy in the 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is just... yes.

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"yeah I don't think rafe would be a loving soft boyfriend at all." Nono, yeah I get tha– B-B-BLOCKED.

rafe has spent his entire life chasing love and acceptance. loving and soft is exactly what he'd be. he's spent his entire life making everyone afraid of him because it was the only way people would answer to him. but he wants his one sweet girl to never be afraid of him no matter what. he wants to project the love onto you that he spent forever yearning for but was always out of reach.

I personally think he'd adore someone a little younger, maybe a little ditzy and js wants to be babied all the time because I think rafe would js want someone to look up at him with huge eyes and be all like "you're so amazing" because it would mean the absolute world to him if someone would just see him as this brilliant thing instead of someone getting in the way of everything and fucking everything up (ward think of me as ur personal hate page)

rafe would one thousand percent never even so much as want to raise his voice at you because he can't bear the thought that the one person in the whole world who truly loves him and looks up to him like he's this beacon of light could ever be scared of him.

therefore, I rest my case.