PERSUATION
Persuasion is a romantic novel by Jane Austen, published posthumously in 1817. It tells the story of Anne Elliot, a young woman who her family persuades to break off her engagement with the naval officer Frederick Wentworth due to his lack of fortune and prospects. Eight years later, circumstances bring them back into each other's lives, and the story explores themes of second chances, class rigidity and social mobility, persuasion, separate spheres, marriage, and the consequences of past decisions. Differences between the 1995 Persuasion movie and the book Story Background The 1995 movie Persuasion adaptation and the book have some differences. At the beginning of the movie, we need to find out the general background since we must know it by reading the book first; therefore, the background story needs to be better reflected in the film as people who have not read the textbook might not understand it initially; for example, the movie begins with Sir Walter Elliot and his daughte...