Mertex
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No, they are fictional. They do not exist except in the book. They portray women, and may even be representative of a real person, but they themselves are not real.Elizabeth Bennet and Marianne Dashwood are both fictional characters. They portray women, but if the authors of the books were alive and decided to get crazy, they could turn them in to male characters and you would have no say so. They are not real, they really can't think for themselves, you can't say, like the idiot TK, that because I made a joke about Spiderwoman being smarter than Spiderman, that I hate men. That's an ignorant and stupid comment to make, but then, I have to consider the source.
Yes they are female characters, AKA women.
Believe it or not, I don't have any say in you turning yourself into a man either, that in no way makes you less real than you are. Those characters are real to those who read Austen's books, just like Spider-Man is real to those who are his fans. You might be able to make a case that they are all crazy, but I doubt that you would be able to convince a psychiatrist that there is anything wrong with them.
If you want to believe they are real, well, go ahead, you are your own boss, but they are still "fictional". And, I don't think that people that think they are real are crazy, I think they are just delusional.
fic·tion (f
![]() ![]() ![]() n. 1. a. An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented. |