Interviewer: Good evening, once again, to our dear audience. In this program, which is called “What do you think about…?”, we have Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë as guests. The topic of discussion will be (with concern) … Well, let’s let us welcome our guests first before revealing the theme of this interview. Dear Jane, dear Charlotte, how are you?
Charlotte Brontë: Perfectly well.
Interviewer: And you Jane? But.. What is happening?! Jane! What is she doing?!
Charlotte Brontë: She is writing.
Interviewer: At this precise moment?! But, why?!
Jane Austen: Precisely for the act itself. “I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.”
Interviewer: Will you be able to participate in the interview as you write?
Jane Auste: Definitely.
Charlotte Brontë: How impertinence of you! But it will be as she wants it. “We will not let her madness to affect, as from whom it comes we will take them.”
Jane Austen: Madness?! Are you really talking about insanity?
Charlotte Brontë: So it seems to me by your behavior.
Jane Austen: I would say that it has nothing to do with madness but rather with a mischievous spirit.
Charlotte Brontë: Well, then you must sleep very badly. “A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”
Interviewer: What subject are you writing about, Jane?
Charlotte Brontë: It’s not worth asking. Her future work will not stand out from the others, or stand out more than those (Jane Austen looks at Charlotte with contempt).
Interviewer: Dear Charlotte, Mrs. Austen is a great writer.
Jane Austen: Miss! I never got married.
Charlotte Brontë: I can see why.
Interviewer: Dear, don’t fight.
Jane Austen: Don’t worry. “I will be calm. I will own myself.”
Charlotte Brontë: I’m glad; I can express my anger without being interrupted by yours.
Jane Austen:“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance“(Charlotte glares at Jane)
Interviewer(nervously): Well, let’s talk about the essential tools to make a novel.
Charlotte Brontë: Okay, but I wouldn’t expect any sensible response from Miss Austen.
Jane Austen: You may be right. “I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an author.”
Charlotte Brontë: That is true. To begin with, Miss Austen does not have a conception of what human feelings are like. What can be said, for example, about her novel “Pride and Prejudice”? It is “an accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open fields, no fresh air, no blue hills.”
Jane Austen(visibly irritated): Dear Charlotte, I am pleased to see that you are a silly woman, otherwise you would try to contain your emotions since you would know, without a doubt, that “angry people are not always wise”.
Charlotte Brontë: In that case, “it is better to be without logic than without feeling.”
Jane Austen: “How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!”
Interviewer: Ladies, I understand that there are irreconcilable differences between the two of you, but don’t you think it would be more reasonable to try to sow peace? Who knows! Maybe in the future you could become great friends if …
Charlotte Brontë: You have lost your mind! “I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!”
Interviewer: Dear Charlotte, don’t you have any kind words to say to our dear Jane?
Charlotte Brontë: Of course I do! I wish your happiness despite our disagreements. “No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told tocultivate happiness.”(Jane Austen rises from her seat, throws her manuscripts and her pen with violence, and leaves the studio).
Interviewer(sadly): This an unfortunate event… Charlotte, you shouldn’t have …
Charlotte Brontë(interrupting her): Oh! Do not worry about me. “This rising storm will not hold my spirit, but will exalt it.”
