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That bad behaviour
Written by Rae
(10/31/2008 8:20 p.m.)
in consequence of the missive, Does passion justify bad behavior?, penned by Robbin
Intention is important here. If his anger was leading him to be outright rude to her then I would agree with you. But he must be remaining within the bounds of socially acceptable behaviour or even the self obsessed Musgroves might notice and his sister certainly would. The fact that it hurts Anne to be treated thus probably more than actual rudeness would is nothing to the purpose - he does not know what she is feeling. He is not in her head, like we are (and he is not Mr Knightley with that gentleman's sophisticated understanding of gender relations, and warm sympathy with most of the women in his life!) What I think he is doing wrong is staying at Kellynch. If he spent two minutes rational thought on it, he would see that staying in his ex-fiancee's home and wooing one of her sisters in law is bonkers. He should have moved on smartly. But he doesn't because he is not thinking rationally, he hurts Anne because he does not know how else to behave with her, and he nearly ends up having to marry Louisa because he does not watch what he is doing. So does passion justify him? I am not sure that 'justifying' is what's at stake here. It certainly explains him. |

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