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Sense and Sensibility
The terms “sense” and “sensibility” are used to describe the personalities of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, the two sisters who serve as protagonists in the novel. “Sense” refers to...
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Sense and Sensibility
The best way to begin the writing process for any essay is to ask questions about the topic. In this case, your topic is Sense and Sensibility, a wonderful book about the contrast and connection...
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Sense and Sensibility
It's easy to see Sense and Sensibility as a story in which logic ("sense," Elinor) is pitted against emotion ("sensibility," Marianne) but I think that is a misreading of the book. I think Austen's...
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Sense and Sensibility
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer resided in Somersetshire, England in the novel Sense and Sensibility. Somersetshire is located in southwest England, and today the county's name has been shortened and is...
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Sense and Sensibility
Colonel Brandon's secret has to with his lost love Eliza. When he was younger he fell in love with Eliza, but she married his brother instead. After returning from the army, Colonel Brandon found...
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Sense and Sensibility
Austen routinely uses both direct characterization and indirect characterization to draw the picture of her characters. She began using this dual approach to characterization in Pride and Prejudice...
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Sense and Sensibility
Actually, truth be told, Jane Austen is not a good author to use for trying to find typical literary devices such as metaphor (simile is a type of metaphor), personification, etc. The reason for...
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Sense and Sensibility
There are of course many examples of this governing theme in this novel, most of them situated around the way that Elinor and Marianne react differently to the problems in love they encounter....
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Sense and Sensibility
Austen does not really use any of those devices like similes and metaphors but is rather quite direct. She uses however rhetoric devices, sarcasm, satire, caricatures and irony in her novel. Check...
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Sense and Sensibility
In Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen brings up contrasting characters, these male characters are the same. Revelation of Edward Ferras' secrect (i.e. he has been enchanged to Lucy for four years)...
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Sense and Sensibility
Austen's English is rather difficult and a dictionary may be handy to get a better understanding. The book also has fifty chapters so it might be a bit laborious to read. However, Austen's use of...
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Sense and Sensibility
The novel starts out being set in Sussex County in England but then the Dashwood women must relocate. We learn of the initial setting of the novel in the very first couple of sentences in the...
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Sense and Sensibility
Willoughby is presented in such a way that the reader likes him but is suspicious of him, and then has those suspicions confirmed (mostly). Although Willoughby almost always appears to be a...
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Sense and Sensibility
It is always difficult to take contemporary critical literary theory concepts and apply them retrospectively to literature from an earlier period in which these theoretical concepts were not...
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Sense and Sensibility
'Generosity' can be defined as 'liberality in giving' and 'nobility of thought and behaviour' and it is derived from the latin word generous which means of noble birth. Jane Austen illustrates...
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Sense and Sensibility
Well.. Yes, chapter ll is wholly focused on Fanny's persuasion to his husband to reduce the money he has decided to give to his half- sisters. Answering your first question, both the characters are...
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Sense and Sensibility
The two characters Elinor and Marianne represent sense and sensibility respectively. When the book is read and reread you'll find a lot of instances how Austen portrays the contradiction. Elinor,...
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Sense and Sensibility
Women's education in the early 1800's in England (Sense and Sensibility was published in 1811) was a bit of a curious paradox. Women in general did not receive formal education; the women depicted...
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Sense and Sensibility
As the title suggests, Austen's main point in Sense and Sensibility is to philosophize or moralize about two different perspectives or personality types. Hence, since Austen uses two sisters to...
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Sense and Sensibility
Elinor believes that it is within human nature to be cool, calm, and collected. While she has a warm, loving, and affectionate heart with strong feelings, she believes in the importance of...
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Sense and Sensibility
The character of Edward Ferrars is far from an ideal consort to the main character. In presenting Edward, Jane Austen introduces us to a man who is described as "not handsome", and with manners...
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Sense and Sensibility
The lines you quote actually come from the 1995 film version directed by Ang Lee with script written by Emma Thompson. Though there are a lot of similarities between the film and the actual novel,...
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Sense and Sensibility
It is clear in Sense and Sensibility that the character of Lady Middleton was created by Jane Austen to represent a typical sketch of the high-ranking, yet deeply shallow, ladies of the upper...
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Sense and Sensibility
John Willoughby and Colonel Brandon are the two gentlemen whose love interests are bestowed upon Marianne in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. The reason why Marianne demonstrates an obvious...
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Sense and Sensibility
The quotation: "I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety." expresses a sense that there were strong social standards during the period in which...
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Sense and Sensibility
One of the most important themes of Sense and Sensibilityis, of course sensibility, and in many ways Austen's novel is critical of romanticism, especially in regard to Marianne Dashwood's overly...
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Sense and Sensibility
The information an author gives either before or after a line of dialogue in order to identify the speaker is called a dialogue tag. However, as you say, when it is already obvious as to who the...
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Sense and Sensibility
Having to transition from Norland Park to Barton Cottage is a huge shock and a huge transition for the Dashwoods. Their manner at Norland was so grand and beautiful as to "engage the general good...
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Sense and Sensibility
Imagery is certainly one literary device Austen uses to make Sense and Sensibility effective. Unlike most of Austen's work, she uses imagery in detail to describe things such as Barton Cottage, the...
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Sense and Sensibility
Among the many instances of ironic amusement that we can find in Jane Austen'sSense and Sensibility,a particularly funny and ironic situation occurs can be found in the dynamics of the Palmers....
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Sense and Sensibility
This idea that a woman need only find a suitable husband to make her life a success is outdated in American society today, but at the time Jane Austen was writing, it was "business as usual" among...
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Sense and Sensibility
It comes to no surprise that the role of money and property would take a center stage in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. After all, in a society where money is equivalent to social...
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Sense and Sensibility
Secrecy is a motif in Sense and Sensibility which we find in two instances that stand out the most: first, when Edward Ferrars hides his engagement to Lucy Steele. Second, when Willoughby hides the...
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Sense and Sensibility
The conflict with the most scope and influence inSense and Sensibilityis wealth vs. poverty, because of its effects on so many relationships in the novel. This conflict finds its way into the...
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Sense and Sensibility
Characterization describes what exactly a character is like, who the character is as a person. Authors can use many different techniques for characterization, including dialogue, descriptions, and...
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen wrote Sense and Sensibility as a protest against the Romantic era and its emphasis of feelings over rational thought. Many Romantic authors and poets dramatized emotions, especially...
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Sense and Sensibility
Austen does not usually use direct characterization, but usually prefers subtle indirect characterization. However, we see some very clear examples of direct characterization, as well as indirect,...
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Sense and Sensibility
The climax is the most emotional moment of the plot and also the moment when the resolution comes into view. As the title suggests, since the plot is about two parallel and intertwining stories of...
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Sense and Sensibility
Edward Ferrars is described as a shy man, but once a person gets to know him, he is easily seen as being very open, sensitive, and caring. He is intelligent and well educated. His one flaw is a...
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen actually very seldom uses metaphor. Her preferred writing style is much more direct, saying exactly what she wants to say without making allusions or comparisons. I certainly cannot...
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Sense and Sensibility
When Elinor says I am afraid...that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety she is basically stating that Marianne is breaking the rules of social propriety that...
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Sense and Sensibility
One literary device Jane Austen uses in Sense and Sensibility is didacticism. The didactic novel was a popular form in the 1790s, which compared two ideologies and preached that one was right and...
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Sense and Sensibility
Colonel Brandon invited a large party, including Elinor, Marianne, their young sister, Lady Middleton, Sir John, and Mrs. Jennings to tour the grounds at Whitwell. Whitwell is an estate owned by...
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Sense and Sensibility
In Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, there are three Dashwood sisters: Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret. Elinor is the oldest of the three sisters in her family. Whereas Marianne (the middle...
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Sense and Sensibility
I was unable to find in Sense and Sensibility a moment when Sir John Middleton tells Elinor that he does not have a lot of money; however, perhaps you actually meant John Willoughby? Towards the...
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Sense and Sensibility
When Willoughby learned of Marianne's potentially fatal illness, he rushed straight from London to Cleveland. His intention of coming to speak with Elinor was to "obtain something like forgiveness"...
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Sense and Sensibility
One way in which the treatment of children is referred to in Chapter 33 is with respect to inheritance. In this chapter, Elinor and Marianne run into their brother John Dashwood in Mr. Gray's, a...
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Sense and Sensibility
Shmoop.com says: Climax Willoughby blows off Marianne; his engagement to Miss Grey is revealed. Once in London, the complications only grow more…complicated. The nervous tension of the sisters...
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Sense and Sensibility
As the title suggests, the primary theme of Sense and Sensibility is the use of sense vs. sensibility. In protest against the romantic literature of her day that praised extreme emotionalism and...
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Sense and Sensibility
By referring to children in the novel, Austen seems to be making a social comment on the effects of spoiling children. One example is seen in Lady Middleton. Austen describes being a mother as Lady...