Assignment Topic:Sense and Sensibility

Name :Mehal J.  Pandya 

Sem :2

Roll no. 13

Enrollment no. 2069108420200029

Subject : Romantic Literature 

Assignment Topic:Sense and Sensibility

Batch:2019-2020

E-mail Id :mehalpandya252@gmail.com

Submitted to: Department of English 

         

M. K. Bhavanagar University 

Introduction:

Jane Austen

         Jane Austen was an English novelist.Her work of funny shows the dependence of women on marriage in the occupation of favourable social standing and economic security and  struggle of women in her life and Austan was well known as woman writer and her works are also famous in present time as well.

 1 Sense and Sensibility

 2 Pride and Prejudice (1813)

 3 Mansfield park(1814)

 4 Emma(1816)

         Jane Austen also wrote other additional novels are Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. These  novels by Austan, published in 1880. Austa's plots highlight women's traditional dependence on marriage to secure their life social status and they can get  financial security through marriage.

Austen definitely advocates for the existence of true love through the characters of Elinor and Marianne, but it seems that she is making a separate claim – that the presence of wealth is nearly or equally as vital to one’s happiness. While seemingly making a plea for the importance of love in a marriage, Austen understatedly suggests that staying within social guidelines and marrying someone of an appropriate financial standing is still crucial to prosperity as a whole.

Sense and sensibility:

           Sense and Sensibility is a famous novel by Jane Austen novel published in 18 11 this novel is tell story about the women in his novel dashboard family in this family for women who are at centre and there are also other women characters but on the periphery for women names who are at centre,

 Mrs. Deshwood

 Elinor Dashwood 

 Marrianne Deshwood

 Margaret Deshwood

       Mrs. Deshwood is mother of these three sisters;Elioner,Marrianne and the younger one Margaret. They have also a half brother named John Deshwood. Fanny is wife of John Deshwood.

       In this novel Jane Austen portrait the picture of Victorian time. Situation of women and about their Rights.we can also find the marriage issue and marriage as central theme in Austen works and the economically conditions of women.In present novel we  can see the that kind of problem facing by the women.Lets know about characters of this novel.

Elioner:

     

       Elioner as the embodiment of  ' Sense' typically commands less critical sympathy and appreciation than her sister Marrianne as the representative of 'Sensibility'. Jane Austen created,so goes the argument, a heroine who is chilly, bloodless and unadmirable.

         Elioner serves two functions in Sense and sensibility, and their interrelatedness attests to Austan' genius in depicting the complex working of character Elioner is at once the only normative figure in the novel and its center of consciousness.

        

        

Marrianne:

           A case in point in Marrianne Deshwood in sense and sensibility.she has 'a life ,a spirit,an eagerness that refreshingly command a warm admiration.An almost palpable and often touching sincerity underins  many of her enthusiasm, because she value good taste.she dislike '' jargon of every kind'' during her conversation with Edward and Elioner.

Margaret:

    

       Margaret is younger sister among three.she has interest in geography and she is always curious to know about the various country and in Atlas.she is not enough mature because she is Just 13 years old. She talk about the man with whom Elioner is attached, so she said that first letter of name is  'F'

Theme :

Inheritance:

     

     This novel start with this line…

          " The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park…."

      

      Mr. Deshwood who is father of three girls and John Deshwood.He is on the death bed and he told John that after his death he should give some part of property to Mrs. Deshwood but he didn't do that because of Fanny.She does not want to give any things  to Mrs. Deshwood.So,this how we can see the inheritance in this novel and also in the period of Victorian girl have no Right to gain from father's property.

   When this Deshwood family have no house they suffering a lot.But  we can see the reason is the family member. Fanny disapproved of John’s plan to give his sisters 3000 pounds. She asked him to reconsider and said that he was taking money away from their own child. She thought that John owed his half-sisters nothing because they weren’t really his sisters.  If John and his wife will help them they will have also a quite good life ahead but it is not happen because lust of wealth.We can also camper the life of John and his mother and sister's or also assume that if it will happen with him he can work and earn the money but girls can not.So this situation we can find in Sense and sensibility.

Marriage :

  

      As we know that marriage is also the theme of sense and sensibility in the beginning of his novel both a girls are unmarried but eligible young women and novel close when they married and settled during this passing time beginning to end as input lots of suffering problem of life love and marriage Elioner fall love with Edward, who is brother of Mrs. Fenny but she doesn't want that they both get marry.

       However,  marriage is not only about the love in the present novel but in fact it is talk about wealth uniting family and gaining social status and social standing example Mrs.Ferrar  only care about her sons marrying a wealthy and upper class woman but she doesn't care that either her son Edward loves Lucy or not.

      Both are sister Eleanor and Mary want to marry because of love but in marine life will it be cause but he didn't marry with her and he left her and marry with Miss Gray only for money which Marrianne haven't.After this incident Marrianne developed her affections towards Colonel Brandon.He is older than Marrianne but he always help her and he loves Marrianne. At the end of the novel Edward marry with Elioner and Colonel marry with Marrianne.

                   Marriage is important and center in the novel because through the marriage both sisters get love as well as financial security,and the social standing.We can see the Happy Ending with their marriage.so the women are dependence on man.They have no Rights to work and earning even they didn't get anything from father's property. Their life is like, life of subaltern who can not raise Voice.

Expectations and Reality:

     When we talk about the expectations and reality both are quite different because one is just Imagination and other is the real situation. This is fact and which we can see in this novel as well. 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.

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.

Gender Issues:

          We can see the issue in novel and the gender issue is one of them. Because of the discrimination women have no right speak and any basic Right which man has. 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. 

       In the novel Jane Austen gave various chapter so let's  discussing about signifies A woman did not have rights. 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.

Conclusion :

“The more I know of the world the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” (page 15)

        

     We can see this novel present time as well. Still women are marry for financial security and a quite good social status. But yes we can also that there is change in time and while time passing women are becoming free and they are not dependent on men. So with comparison of Romantic era and present time we can see the wild change in women Right and their situation. 

Work citation

Austen, Jane, and Kathleen Viola James-Cavan. Sense and Sensibility. New York, Barnes & Noble Classics with new Introduction,2004.

Fredericksen, Erik. "Sense and Sensibility Chapter 1." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC,  3 Mar 2014. Web. 5 Mar 2020.

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