They are wrong—they are all wrong. They have ground out their souls for what isn't worth anything, and there isn't a grain of love in them anywhere. And I will have love. They want us to deny it. They've never found it, so they want to say it doesn't exist. But I will have it. I will love—it is my birthright. I will love the man I marry—that is all I care about
Louisa doesn’t accept the position of her family – to marry someone for money. She believes in love and she will never marry the man without love, it is ridiculous for her. Mrs. Lindley considers her an egotistic creature because she doesn’t think of her family, who suffers from poverty. She is a bad daughter. But is the desire to be happy a crime? Louisa doesn’t want to abuse anyone. She appreciates and respects her family, but she is not going to become a victim of their aspiration for money. The birthright of every person is to love, and there is nothing worse than life without love. Her sister Mary knows it as no one else. And Louisa won’t repeat her mistake. She will marry the man she loves, otherwise she won’t marry at all.
One cannot be dirty in act and spiritual in being
Louisa judges her elder sister Mary for her decision to marry Mr. Massy. She doesn’t believe in heroism of her deed. Mary has always been her best friend, and Louisa always thought of her as of a person of high spirit but now she doubts the purity of her intention. Mary shouldn’t have done it; she is not a spiritual person anymore, because her actions are dishonest. She will never be happy, because her actions and thoughts are in contrast. The one, who lives in harmony with ones’ deeds and thoughts, is happy. People suffer, because they don’t do what they want to, they do what they have to do, they always feel the pressure of duty, and this pressure makes their life unbearable.
Then, gradually, as he held her gripped, and his brain reeled round, and he felt himself falling, falling from himself, and whilst she, yielded up, swooned to a kind of death of herself, a moment of utter darkness came over him, and they began to wake up again as if from a long sleep. He was himself
Love has a unique power to set people free. It puts off all the masks of force, hate, anger, strictness and estrangement. And Alfred has felt it. He, the man who was always hiding his feeling deep in his soul, was afraid of every woman he met, except of his mother, now has finally became himself. Louisa made him to disclosure, to set his feeling free, and he was happy. He felt it was his destiny – to marry this woman. Finally, he is not afraid to be close with the woman. Love makes people feel themselves the part of someone else, to become two pieces of the whole. It gives the reason to live, and one shouldn’t be afraid of this beautiful feeling.
Without knowing it, he (Alfred) had been centralized, polarized in his mother. It was she who had kept him. Even now, when the old housekeeper had left him, he might still have gone on in his old way. But the force and balance of his life was lacking
Alfred couldn’t imagine his life without his mother. She was the whole world for him, although he hadn’t realized it until he lost her. Now the life was like a torture for him, he still tried to do his mundane deeds – to read a book, to walk, and to work, but it was meaningless. There was no relief, no escape, no help, he was lonely. With the loss of the closest person in the world, the one loses a part of oneself. And much time is needed until the life will be normal again. But, nevertheless, there will remain a feeling, that something is lacking, something important, something, without what the life will never be as it was and one will never be previous.
