‘Sense and Sensibility’ novel with various aspects.
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Assignment
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V: The Romantic Literature
Topic:Describe
‘Sense and Sensibility’ novel with various aspects.
Name: Kaushal Desai
Department: M.A. English
department
Semester: II
Roll No: 14
To be
submitted to: The Department of English,
M.K. Bhavnagar University
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Preface
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Jane Austen’s style
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‘Sense and Sensibility’
Issues related to this Study of Literature
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Irony in Sense and
Sensibility
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Tensions between
Sense and Sensibility
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Themes of Marriage
in Sense and Sensibility
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Unity of action in Sense and Sensibility
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Women’s novel/Feministic
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Describe ‘Sense and Sensibility’ novel with various aspects.
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Preface:
First of all if we talk about this
novel, so we have to clarify that what is this telling of ‘Sense’ and
‘Sensibility’. The novel which written by Jane Austen, She telling her feeling
through this work of literature. Mainly in literature has “Work is the food
of any writer” after go ahead “Sense and Sensibility has very enormous
aspects and declaration of the facts and findings. Here in this novel
background is surrounded by Family issues and its matters. We can find here
lovers and there wanting likeElinor and Marianne as main
characters represent the dichotomy suggested by the title. Elinor, the older
sister, acts always with reason, restraint, prudence, and all around
level-headedness. The younger, Marianne acts with passion, emotion, intensity,
and impulsiveness. The two are opposites, but with subtle blending. Elinor
displays emotional care and Marianne is not entirely oblivious to the need to
be proper at times.
The novel begins at the Dashwood home
at Norland Park in Sussex, England. It is a beautiful place with many fond
memories for the Dashwood girls, but they move far away to Devonshire. They
live in a small cottage on the estate of Mr. Middleton called Barton Park.
They enjoy spending time in the beautiful hills around their home. In volume
II Elinor and Marianne travel to London, England to visit with friends and
stay at the home of Mrs. Jennings. Colonel Brandon’s home is at Delaford that
Marianne moves to when she marries him. Edward and Elinor move to the
parsonage on the estate when they marry. By the way now let’s look on the Jane
Austen’s style of writing that help us in understanding this novel more
fruitfully;
Jane
Austen’s style:
“There
are few people whom I really love,
And still fewer of whom
I think well.
The more I see of the
world,
The more am I
dissatisfied with it;
And every day confirms
my belief of the
All human characters,
and of the little dependence
That can be placed on the
appearance of merit or sense.”
~
Jane Austen
Jane
Austen’s subject for her art a certain region in the social world because it is.
'The delight of her life' not, as her critics have loosely inferred, the
safest thing for her to write about.'' But on the other hand she argues the
limitations out of existence by a determined—and somewhat enigmatic
application of "scale', "By presenting her people in perspective, as
none but a writer with an exact sense of scale can do, Jane Austen indicates
recession, and so gives the impression of a limitless human world beyond her
visible scene."
• A mixture of
neoclassicism and romanticism
• Neoclassicism
encourages reason and restraint in writing. It is logical and follows a
structured form.
• Romanticism encourages
passion and imagination in writing. It is emotional and follows a flowing
form.
• Sharp,
sarcastic and witty
• More focus on
dialogue
• The art of
conversation
• The art of
characterization
• Adolescence,
that notoriously difficult time of life
• Balance between
the self and others
• The self can
dwell in fantasy, but others represent unreadable reality
She distinctive literary style relies on a combination of parody, burlesque, irony, free indirect
speech, and a degree of realism. She uses parody and burlesque for comic
effect and to critique the portrayal of women in 18th-century sentimental and gothic novels. Austen extends her critique by
highlighting social hypocrisy through irony; she often creates an ironic tone
through free indirect speech in which the thoughts and words of the characters
mix with the voice of the
narrator. Jane Austen does
not create a woman’s world – she presents the real world, in which the limits
on the conversation are those of the knowledge and interests of the speakers,
and she allows us to perceive it through the consciousness of her heroines.
‘Sense and Sensibility’ Issues
related to this Study of Literature:
Its
novels which content two aspect of thinking are ‘Sense’ and ‘Sensibility’.
Most of the literature work is create a kind of matters which can modify the
society. Austen gives here many feature of the novel like beyond some way,
lets discuss one by one.
Classicism and Romanticism:
It’s talk about the Individual and Society and
Appearance and Reality. The time period during which Austen wrote this novel
was during the conversion between classicism and romanticism and so the theme
of reason versus passion has historical resonance. The two girls represent
these two persuasions. Elinor represents the opinion sense: rationality,
insight, judgment, moderation, and balance as she never loses sight of
propriety, economic practicalities, and perspective, while Marianne is of
sensibility as she embraces romance, imagination, idealism, excess, and a
dedication to the beauty of nature. Austen gestures toward both her predecessors
and contemporaries in the novel.
Money/Inheritance:
Austen was well aware of the injustice of the laws of
her time. Women had no right to inheritance or land ownership and so had to
focus their marital pursuits toward marrying for economic comfort. The
Dashwood women had relatively little money for their needs and the life they
were accustomed to because of their father’s death and with no dowry, their
chances of marrying well were greatly lessened.
Marriage:
Marianne laughed at Elinor’s prudence in her view of
a “good” marriage, but at the time there was no socially acceptable way for a
woman to gain an income to support her livelihood except by marriage. Marianne
feels early on that she “shall never see a man whom can truly love” because
she “require a man who sings well, dances admirably, rides bravely, reads with
passion and whose tastes agree in every point with own.” In the end she
realizes her romantic idealism is not sensible in her marriage choice. She,
like Elinor marries for security more than for affection.
Expectations and Reality:
Always the realist Elinor has little trouble
navigating through trials, while Mrs. Dashwood and Marianne allow their
passionate expectations to lead their actions. These two romantics constantly
are disappointed by their imaginations and encounter a great deal of drama
along the way.At this juncture we can also add some basic phenomenon like day
today life or with it a society views.
Gender Issues:
There
are great divisions between the social roles of men and women within this
novel. Both sexes fall into stereotypical roles of the time that students
should be familiar with in order to understand interactions within the text.
This topic should be addressed through a historical context. In building
background knowledge for the students it will be important to teach about the
gender roles of the time and compare and contrast them to today’s.Here I want to remark that “Sense and
Sensibility” is written as a third person framework which uses the past tense.
The form Austen utilizes in the novel is free indirect discourse. In such
things the characters can do play a sensible role as it think but what should
present is something different thinking Jane Austen is also write as the
perspective of men as noted. This novel
is exertion about to like this image that makes clear that way of observing
how Jane Austen creates a facts and finding.
Now, discussing about signifies A
woman did not have many rights. She was a legal infant, and her conduct was
determined by many rules. She could not enter the professions or study at the
university, and society had sketched out the outlines of a perfect woman
pretty clearly. To leave political, legal and military affairs the “masculine
sphere” to men, to regard marriage as the only ambition worth having, to
concentrate humbly only on her husband, her children and her home and to behave
graciously and elegantly that was the ideal woman. The novel is divided
into three volumes. Volume I, the largest of the three, has 22 chapters and
132 pages, volume II, 14 chapters with 113 pages, and volume III has 14
chapters and 123 pages. The first volume deals mainly with the introductions
of a majority of the characters, especially the main ones, and the initial
romantic attachments. Volume II details Marianne and Elinor’s trip to London
and the disappointment of Marianne’s love. The final Alarie Gifford volume
resolves the relationship blunders with neat matches between the kind Brandon
and Marianne and Edward and Elinor.
At
this instant discussing about this novel so we can say that she fruitfully
using characters but a role of ‘Female’ is here so important because it’s
feminine novel as we observes.
‘Sense and
Sensibility’ is written with a lens typical of its period and displays persuasions
through its characters AsMrs.
Jennings signs of sect "I am particularly sorry, ma'am," said he,
addressing Lady Middleton, "that I should receive this letter today, for
it is on business which requires my immediate attendance in town.” (“Sense
and Sensibility”Chapter
XIII, 41-43)
Irony in “Sense and Sensibility”:
Irony,
which makes the difficult situation and changes the saying to one to another
like Jane Austen uses irony as a means of moral and social satire. Her
sentences, while usually simple and direct, contain within them the basic
contradictions which reveal profound insights into character and theme. This
is most obvious in her blunt character sketches. John Dashwood "was not
an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather coldhearted, and rather
selfish, is to be ill-disposed." Note that in the first half of the
sentence, she seems to be viewing his character amiably. Suddenly she changes
direction, and the general impression we receive about John is far more
bitingly negative than a mere statement of disapproval.
Her irony
ranges from the gentle to the severe. When she speaks about Marianne, she
says, "She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but
prudent." Austen weights the first half with pleasing commentary and
gently undercuts it in the second. Compare this with her biting description of
Mrs. Ferrars: "She was not a woman of many words; for, unlike people in
general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas." Austen begins
innocently enough, but the conclusion of that sentence bitterly reveals to us
the impression she wishes us to have. Reflection is necessary, for we must see
the sentence as a whole. She seems to be contradicting herself, but this is
not so. We had just taken it for granted that she would finish the sentence
the way we expected it to be finished. Our expectations built in the first
part of the sentence are disappointed. But the change in tone, though
seemingly sudden, is a natural conclusion to the author's own train of
thought. She knew that Mrs. Ferrars had nothing to say, but in the order,
meticulously constructed, in which she reveals this information, lies her
genius. The necessary reflection, subsequent surprise, and devastating insight
create an effect which is much more persuasive than direct statement could be.Many
characters plays fundamental role in this novel with cross the direction of
the character’s love with each other.
Tensions between Sense and
Sensibility:
Taking
about this matter we are going to society’s point of view like what it’s really
they think in this novel have the same completion to be a female thinking and moral
detect of mentioning here we have to focus on the marriage aspect. Sense make
thinking when sensibility flows with flower shining "Love"
in “Sense
and Sensibility” is a largely
undefined quantity, and is viewed by the novel's narrator as uncertain or
inexplicable. It’s a romance novel which connect with characters and
situations when the novel opens with family facts and melodious music plays it’s
like a good sign to open but the problem creates is that the two different
source of human kind ‘sense’ and ‘sensibility’. Elinor and Dorothea, both have
sense and marry with their husband at the end of the novel but the vital role
of the Jane Austen’s work is to give a fact and finding how the how takes a
turn.
“The more I know of the world, the
more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really
love. I require so much!”
~ Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
~ Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
This type of thinking that make a major role in this
novel how one’s muse can explore detect of deferent root. When Dorothea is in
muse, Jane Austen remarks with saying that, “Distinguishing genuine instances of betrayal from those that are merely
“felt.” (“Sense
And Sensibility” Chapter XVIII, 112)
Elinor
is always very tense and focused on duty and propriety does not display emotion
oftenUnderstands Edward’s decision to stay with Ms. Steele. It’s creating a
kind of confusion.Marianne’sfree spirit not often tense andwants to marry for
love the Romanticnever hides emotionheartbroken to hear she was left for money.Marriage
was serious business, and though many of Austen’s characters hoped for romantic
love, the financial implications of marriage could not be ignored.
Let us see the images which helpful
in study this novel
(Drashti B. Mehta’s Art, Sense and Sensibility)
→ Second thing is How these tensions compare?;
One can put some points like,
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Pushing Hands: the duty to family overrides personal desires or needs
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The son and his family must put up with problems and conflicts out of respect
and duty to his father
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The Wedding Banquet: the pressure to marry is very prevalent and a key source
of tension
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Not marrying who you love to please your family
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Eat Drink Man Woman: Falling for someone not accepted by family and being in
situations not approved by family
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Having Sex, Hiding it
These
points give us very fertile views towards characters and its role through the
novel.
Themes of Marriage in “Sense and
Sensibility”:
Jane Austen’s novels
are mainly content with the concept of marriage like feelings on the subject of
marriages and relationships,Marriage is only satisfactory when there is love
between the two people involved. And in that the plethora
of relationships in her novels shows that Austen deems a marriage unsatisfactory
if it occurs primarily for reasons like gain of wealth, practical reasons, or
solely for pleasure.Austen's attitude towards marriage in her novels strongly
reflect those she held in her own life.
As we can say that Love is a many splendored thing,
sure, but it's also a many troubled thing, Jane Austen, Sense and
Sensibility, she shows us dramatically different facets of this crazy
little thing we call love, from the euphoric to the life-threatening. While
love is certainly the driving force of the various plots we see in this novel,
it's not always a good thing. In fact, more often than not, there's an edge of
danger or tragic potential in it. Love, asserts this book, is wonderful and
beautiful and all, but there's always a chance that it'll creep up behind you
and stab you in the back. Looking in to this novel.
The novel “Becoming Jane” is also
needed the cultural facts that show us various themes which can be possible or
felt in human life.We see two different views of marriage here, on one hand,
the socially conventional tendency to view marriage as a purely economic
exercise, while on the other, Mrs. Dashwood's completely sentimental,
unscientific view of it, in which, as they say, all you need is love. Neither
of these views turns out to be entirely correct within the framework of the
novel.Sir John was a sportsman, Lady Middleton a mother. He hunted and shot,
and she humored her children; and these were their only resources. Lady
Middleton had the advantage of being able to spoil her children all the year
round, while Sir John's independent employments were in existence only half the
time.The Middleton marriage is described more like a business than like a
loving, personal relationship. Marriage seems to be about practicality rather
than mutual enjoyment.
Unity of action in “Sense and
Sensibility”:
It’s starts with initiate,
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large,
and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property,
where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to
engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. (Sense
and Sensibility, Chaper I, 1-4) Mr. Henry Dashwood’s uncle. This uncle’s
great fortune is willed to Henry’s first wife’s son, John. Henry dies and his
fortune is unfortunately left to John’s disposal. This leaves his wife and
their three daughters with very little money and without a comfortable place to
live due to the circumstances imposed by John Dashwood’s controlling and
uncharitable wife. The four ladies are invited to live with a distant relative,
Mr. Middleton, in a distant countryside, Devonshire. They accept and move away
leaving the girls’ attachment and love for their home, and Elinor’s heart with
Edward Ferrars.
Once
arrived at their Barton Park cottage in Devonshire, Marianne meets John
Willoughby by chance and the two unabashedly court one another very publicly,
all the while Mr. Middleton’s friend Colonel Brandon is in love with Marianne.
Friends of the Middletons arrive, and one, Lucy, reveals to Elinor that she is
engaged to Edward. Willoughby must suddenly leave for London on business.
Facts
changes and story take a turn whenElinor and Marianne travel to London with
Mrs. Jennings, Mrs. Middleton’s mother. Colonel Brandon informs Elinor about a
rumor of engagement between Willoughby and Marianne, though Marianne has
revealed nothing of the sort to her family. When the two lovers encounter one
another at a party Willoughby rudely dismisses her and later writes her a
letter denying he ever loved her. Brandon shares Willoughby’s history of
debauchery and they discover he is engaged to a rich Miss Gray because he
squandered his fortune. Elinor shares the information she knows about him with
Marianne and she once love-sick girl realizes her folly and dismisses him.
Actually
details the girls’ trip to visit friends at Cleveland on their way home from
London. Marianne becomes very sick there. Willoughby comes and apologizes
revealing that he married only so a dreadful secret about him would not be
revealed, he really did love Marianne. Mrs. Dashwood and Brandon come and are
relieved to see Marianne recovering. Upon arriving home at Barton Park, they
find Lucy is engaged not to Edward, but to Robert Ferrars because he will
receive a majority of the family inheritance. Edward and Elinor become engaged
as do Marianne and Colonel Brandon. They all marry and live close to Mrs.
Dashwood and Margaret.
Women’s novel/Feministic perspective:
Here
I want to compare two novel of Jane Austen that are, “Pride
& Prejudice”and “Sense &
Sensibility”. Both connect between women’s perspectives like
thinking, doing, making, and wanting. Both novelsare well known popular and
widely read. Jane Austen has often been consideredwho led a narrow,
inhibited life and who rarely traveled. These assertions are far from the
truth. Jane Austen traveled more than most women of her time and was quite
involved in the lives of her brothers, so much that it often interfered with
her writing. Like most writers, Jane drew on her experiences and her
dreams for the future and incorporated them into her writing. Her
characters reflect the people around her; the main characters reflect parts of
her.
In Sense and
Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park, ElinorDashwood,
Elizabeth Bennet, and Fanny Price all reflect aspects of Jane Austen and dreams
she had that were never fulfilled.Feminism, a recognized movement in
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in thatfictional
reconstruction of patriarchal gender conceptionsGender stereotypes.Elinor's
intellectualism and civic-mindedness appropriate traditionally masculine
virtues, just as Edward's shy, retiring domesticity appropriates feminine ones.
Also we remark the passionately romantic and feminine Marianne rebels against
the female decorum of the day in behavior virtually indistinguishable from
Willoughby's.
Jane Austen uses her
novels Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility as
mediums to explore her feelings on the subject of marriages and relationships,
concluding that a marriage is only satisfactory when there is love between the
two people involved. The plethora of relationships in her novels shows that
Austen deems a marriage unsatisfactory if it occurs primarily for reasons like
gain of wealth, practical reasons, or solely for pleasure. Austen's attitude
towards marriage in her novels strongly reflect those she held in her own life.
Though she never married, Austen involved herself in several serious
relationships and came close to matrimony more than once. The situations and
circumstances of these relationships certainly helped shape Austen's feelings
toward the subject of marriage and the way that it is approached in her novels.
♀ To be concluded:
All the
facts and its determination can show a view which we can see a human
perspective and its moral consent. “Sense and Sensibility” is the novel
makes a place in the literature which tell something and here is the talk of
two sisters and their wanting but we cannot escape that all characters plays
their role very immensely and by the Eagle eye view this Feminine reading of this
novel is really prominent in Romantic era.
Bibliography:
Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Vol. I.
London: Thomas Egerton, Milirary Libarary (Whitehall, London), 1811.
Works Cited
Editors, SparkNotes. sparknotes.
2 2014. <http://m.sparknotes.com/lit/sensibility/citing.html>.
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