A universally acknowledged truth...

Very rarely does a character 200years old continue to intrigue and be loved by its readers as it did at the time of its inception.Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet possessed vivacity and independence that very few women in this modern age acquire.She easily dwarfs her hero Darcy in terms of sheer strength of character and depth. Jane Austen proved that a novel needn't be as overwhelminghly epic as Tolstoy's Anna Karenina or as philosophically deep as Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov to enthrall generations.The setting was as simple as a ballroom... the centre themes as straightforward as marriage and society...Yet Austen emerges equivalent to any literary giant.Her novels always endeared to females.It was never overtly feministic yet you could always find women who believed in female empowerment and choices her central characters. Our world will always be poorer for the fact there will only be six completed novels written by her since she succumbed to Addisons disease.Biographers trace her life as a quiet one spend in writing, reading and music.We may have failed to come up with one authentic portrait of her.Yet her undeniable genius and creativity is perfectly painted in her novels.My personal obsession with Jane austen has extended over years...Its just that inspite of being created two centuries ago Elizabeth Bennet possess the sort of liveliness,adorability and sprit that even the most modern women are devoid of...