Discussion Main / AccompliceByInaction

These examples need context:

• Jane Austen's works:
  • This is averted in many cases when the heroine supposes that someone did nothing when they could have helped, and a modern reader would be pissed, but because of Values Dissonance, this is a perfectly normal conduct. This includes Elizabeth Bennet, Catherine Morland, Elinor Dashwood.
  • It's not even left ambiguous with English Roses Jane Fairfax, who sound a lot like nineteenth century gothic romance heroines. These sweet Proper Ladies don't take being neglected well.

I personally don't see aversion of this trope in neither of them.