] It struck me especially that she is very intelligent and all the same she is so excessively besotted to Wickham. She agrees to everything he says and admires every single word he utters.

] This sounds to me not like a clever and emotional young woman but like a brainwashed ninny. It's very difficult for me to combine these different images of Marianne.

Indeed I have to admit that I remember all too clearly that it is possible to be at the same time intelligent and brainwashed. Thank heavens it doesn´t last forever!

When I met the passion of my life, I guess I was so happy to find this passion that I happily agreed to everything (just with a very small voice inside that said: are these really your opinions?)just to make us even more alike than we already were. And maybe to feel that life was great. Goodbye dullness! Life starts here and now! Actually I think he did the same.

Maybe it´s about living totally inside this passion, and not being very aware of anything else. The outside world doesn´t really matter if it doesn´t affect the passionate couple´s relation to each other.