“Love & Friendship,” an adaptation of an early novel by Jane Austen that was published only posthumously (in 1871), is set in London and on rural English estates in the early nineteenth century.

One of the reasons why Whit Stillman’s new film, “Love & Friendship,” is so deeply satisfying is that he filmed it on his home turf. PHOTOGRAPH BY BERNARD WALSH / AMAZON STUDIOS / ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS

They rudely snub Edward's aunt's invitation.In “Love & Friendship,” a Jane Austen adaptation directed by Whit Stillman and starring Kate Beckinsale, the story of a woman’s self-liberation in a changing society becomes strangely, deeply personal.

Sacred Hospitality: Laura, Sophia, and their husbands abuse hospitality freely.

Protagonist-Centered Morality: The narrator Laura excuses any crimes whatsoever committed by herself, her husband Edward, and their friends Augustus and Sophia, but is merciless toward anyone who does not cater to their whims.

But alas! the House had never been their own, and their Fortune had only been an Annuity on their own Lives. By their decease I became the lawfull Inheritress of their House and Fortune. The death of my Parents a few weeks after my Departure, is the circumstance I allude to. To account for the seeming forgetfullness I must inform you of a trifling circumstance concerning them which I have as yet never mentioned. You may perhaps have been somewhat surprised, my Dearest Marianne, that in the Distress I then endured, destitute of any support, and unprovided with any Habitation, I should never once have remembered my Father and Mother or my paternal Cottage in the Vale of Uske.

Parental Abandonment: Both of Laura's parents die during the story, in time to keep her situation dramatic:.

A frenzy fit is not one quarter so pernicious it is an exercise to the Body and if not too violent, is I dare say conducive to Health in its consequences-Run mad as often as you chuse but do not faint.' The latter proves the healthier choice, as lying unconscious for two hours on the wet grass gives the other girl a cold that ultimately kills her, and she dies exhorting her friend 'Beware of swoons, dear Laura. Each heroine exhibits a standard Gothic romance reaction - one swoons, while the other has a fit of madness.

The Ophelia: Parodied when the husbands of the two heroines suddenly die in front of them.

Oedipus Complex: Spoofed given the silliness of the children, their defiance comes across as probably idiotic.

She told me that having a considerable taste for the Beauties of Nature, her curiosity to behold the delightful scenes it exhibited in that part of the World had been so much raised by Gilpin's Tour to the Highlands, that she had prevailed on her Father to undertake a Tour to Scotland and had persuaded Lady Dorothea to accompany them.

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