Colonel Brandon

The colonel Christopher Brandon is a British Personnage of fiction of the novel Raison and feelings ( Sense & sensibility ) of Jane Austen.

Biography

It was born with Delaford, in the Devonshire, second the XVIII ième century half. His/her father died when it was sixteen years old whereas it had already joined the British army. His/her older brother died also ten years later, making it main from now on of the properties of Delaford. In the novel, it remained to him, like family, only her sister and of the cousins (of which a cousin bearing the name of Fanny). He is the best friend of Sir John Middleton (clean cousin of Mrs. Dashwood) with which he was useful in his regiment in the east of the Indies.

Austen describes it like a 35 years old, silent and serious man, but of beautiful appearance even if its face were without beauty. By studying it of near, it gave the impression to be judicious and perfectly quite high. Sir John praises it as being the best man in the world and Elinor Dashwood, as being somebody who has good heart. However, in spite of its reputation without spot and its kindness of heart, that did not make therefore concealing the malicious gossip, of which the seducer John Willoughby, which was not obstructed to treat it as being somebody of weak and tedious in its absence.

After having known a failure in love cooking whose his/her father was the origin first, Christopher Brandon had never married and did not have any heir until it met, quartoze years later, miss Marianne Dashwood with which it fell madly in love. But in spite of its inclination towards the 17 year old teenager and its secret hope that its feelings are shared, Brandon forever really sought to allure it, conscious of being too old for it. It is with regret and for the happiness of Marianne that it left fields free to John Willoughby, returning it more melancholic person and unhappy than ever.

However, even if the circumstances of the life appeared to be baited against him, Brandon ends up discovering the true face of John Willoughby that Marianne was not long either in discovering its own eyes at the time of a ball in London. However, the phantoms of the past haunted the colonel again when it fell seriously sick. By miracle, she survived and after a serious examination of conscience on its behavior during its relation with Willoughby, Marianne first of all offered, in Brandon, its friendship then, little time after, its heart…

" Colonel Brandon was now as happy as it deserved it, of the opinion of his best friends, Marianne comforting it of all his last afflictions; its attentions and its company returned animation and cheerfulness " to him; (Jane Austen, 1795)

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