austere and dark? consider another quality behind those two: sincerity. there is something about sincere people. not honesty, not truth. sincerity. it is something else.

You have to understand that John is a man who's childhood was stripped from him when his father killed himself and forced his son to become the head of the family at such a young age. He's burdened with the responsibility of rebuilding his family from collapse. Far too much pressure at an age. And he's done it. He's repressed his own happiness so that his family had food and shelter and all they could ever want.

i suggest u to read the book if you havent done so yet-it worths! mr thornton is a real MAN, a true gentleman, and he is never agressive, he never hits anyone in the book

Her friend who's dying, she was working in his factory and she died because of the health conditions there (the smell and the long working hours).

@@theenglishclub9608 No she contracted the problem in another mill.

No. This miniseries is the entire story of book.

They married and the mill is saved. What more do you want😂

Yeah, her acting was very wooden and boring.

Concordo plenamente contigo! Em nenhum momento ele foi ofensivo, bem diferente do Sr. Darcy. Acho q ela deveria ter dado uma explicação pra essa rejeição pq nas cenas anteriores deu pra notar q ela sentia atração por ele, realmente foi ilógico.

It’s because of the situation before, where it was a bit scandalous and she came to his rescue and everyone was saying that she was a terrible flirt throwing herself at him. Here she thinks he is almost mocking her by offering for her only out of honour, to save her reputation and to buy her because her pities her. It offends her pride.

To some extent, she's referring to their class differences. Margaret is the daughter of an educated man and a former clergyman -- both her father and mother come from the gentry, even though the family has fallen on hard times. John, on the other hand, began poor but worked his way up to become a man of means -- both of these facts, however, mean that Thornton is strictly speaking not a "gentleman" according to the standards of the times in which he lives even though he's as rich as or perhaps even richer than some of the men who would be considered gentlemen. The word "gentleman" in that time period was a reference to more than just a style of behavior but also the social class where that kind of behavior would have been expected, yet Thornton doesn't come from that class. According to the standards of the time, Margaret would be "marrying down" by accepting John's proposal and this is to some extent expressed in the rather scornful way she refers to John as being a "man in trade"

Yes screw Darcy

Exactly my words. Mr Thornton has given me an unrealistically high expectations of men now. Oh gentleman, what have you done to me! ❤

Thornton is better in my opinion. A self-made man who rose his family from poverty after the death of their father. He is proud yet honorable. Gaskell has always written male character better than Austen who either only writes them as dashing but shallow or aloof and awkward. Thornton and Higgins are complex characters.

There's a certain irony in the fact that Darcy and Thornton are a lot alike -- rather chilly and severe on the surface yet conscientious and honorable underneath -- yet at the same time, they're also total opposites. In "Pride And Prejudice", Darcy is "marrying down" in the eyes of society since Elizabeth's family on one side is in trade and her father's estate is modest -- but strictly speaking, even though Thornton is rich, he's "marrying up" since he started out poor whereas Margaret as the daughter of an educated man and former clergyman (even though her family is also not wealthy) is technically above his station.