I’m reading “Pride and prejudice” and I’m strangely enjoying it. I like the characters and the story, I’m really hooked with the book, but I don’t really know why it is so interesting and how Austen makes me feel interested in a book that, maybe just in the surface, is so mundane.
In the past, I also read “Sense and sensibility” for University and I also enjoyed it very much.
How do you think Austen makes this? How does she make a realistic and simple book so interesting in its story and its characters?
For me one big reason is because she makes the protagonists so multidimensional - they tend to be witty, independent, flawed, intelligent, and somewhat outsiders.
I think this contrasts really well with the formality of society of the time which is reflected in many of the antagonists/clowns/minor characters.