Persuasion

Bright and funny and sharply observed, everything people say she is. Enjoyable in it’s own right and more than just a lightweight comedy of manners, it’s still a little troubling how shallow a perspective of society this gives.
Outside of the drawing rooms and the parties and the concerts, there is reference to charitable works and landowner’s duties but with a 21st century perspective something seems amiss. Maybe there was still a sense that society still worked as it should, that through duty and charity everything would continue to work out as it should for people in their ‘assigned’ station of life.