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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
Many of Jane Austen's works tackle the issues of love and marriage in different ways, and Sense and Sensibility is no different. The two main protagonists, Elinor and Marianne, are two of three...
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Sense and Sensibility
Margaret Dashwood is the youngest of the three Dashwood sisters. She is a minor character but still an important one. Her personality includes elements of both the intellectual and emotional traits...
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen offers one group of characters who are more likely to spread gossip and another who tend to refrain from such behavior. They are not, however, mutually exclusive. Austen clearly conveys...
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen’s intent in the novel Sense and Sensibility with her inclusion of the accounts of gossip and social drivel is to mock and decry it. Austen was famous for her distaste for typical...
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Sense and Sensibility
Through the lens of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, one may conclude that Austen’s view on gossip is poor when considering how several characters suffer from the consequences of gossip....
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Sense and Sensibility
Marianne first learns to show emotional restraint. She comes to realize that she doesn't need to always wear her heart on her sleeve. She learns to restrain herself from jumping to conclusions. At...
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Sense and Sensibility
Elinor and Marianne represent, respectively, the sense and sensibility of the title. Their biggest contrast lies in their respective temperaments, which really couldn't be any more different....
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Sense and Sensibility
Elinor and Marianne, London Elinor and Marianne are invited to London by Mrs. Jennings. Elinor expects that Marianne, despising Mrs. Jennings, will reject the offer out of hand. Yet Elinor did not...
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Sense and Sensibility
The man made structures throughout the text of "Sense and Sensibility" are, for the most part, all houses of varying sizes. Most prominently featured is the estate of Norland Park. This sprawling...
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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
On the surface, both sisters are in dire straits with the death of their father, as their inheritance goes to their older brother, with minimal support due to the interference of Fanny, their...
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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
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 best conclusions have two elements. 1. Conclusions should not add new information. If one does this, this will leave the reader with that new thought, rather than the whole argument. So, resist...
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Sense and Sensibility
When we first meet Willoughby, he is described as carrying Marianne home in his arms. He is described as gallant, heroic, and handsome, the picture of an ideal romantic hero. This early description...
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Sense and Sensibility
There are three narrative structural elements that we find in Jane Austen's Chapter 11 and 12 of Sense and Sensibility. The first is one we find all throughout the book and that is Austen's chosen...
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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
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
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
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
Several conflicts exist in the novel: wealth versus poverty, passion versus reasons, marrying for love versus marrying for security. The individual conflicts between characters exemplify these...
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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
While it is true to say that Marianne has no attraction toward Colonel Brandon because he is too old and wears "flannel" waistcoats, it is not true to say that, as a consequence, she rejects his...
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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
You are right in identifying that this novel, like Pride and Prejudice, relates the two central protagonists to the states indicates in the title. The "sense" refers to Elinor, who is shown to...
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Sense and Sensibility
Elinor and Marianne in Sense and Sensibility have some character traits in common but most of their traits are opposites. The character traits that they have in common are that they are both well...
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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
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
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
Jane Austen's actually doesn't make use of a whole lot of different literary elements in her writing. Instead, Austen prefers a much more direct style, letting the story and the characters make her...
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Sense and Sensibility
Lucy was naturally clever; her remarks were often just and amusing; and as a companion for half an hour Elinor frequently found her agreeable; but her powers had received no aid from education: she...
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Sense and Sensibility
The point of view of the narrator in Sense and Sensibility refers to the perspective under which the narrative is told depending on the events that surround the plot. In this case, the point of...
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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
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
As it is stated in the title, Sense and Sensibility illustrates the clash that occurs when emotions rule our common sense. Austen presents, in a variety of story lines, that romance and social...
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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
One scene in Sense and Sensibility that demonstrates Marianne's sensibility (violent, unrestrained emotion) is when she bids farewell to the trees, leaves, flowers, wind, etc., etc. at Norland Park...
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Sense and Sensibility
One major theme in Sense and Sensibility is the contrast between the rational mind and emotions. Jane Austen wrote this novel as a protest against the passionate ideas found in popular works of 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
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
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
The setting of the novel Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen, mainly takes place in the English country side. The plot is first set specifically in the county of Sussex, which is located in the...
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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
The climax is the point where everything changes. The turning point of this story is when Marianne gets sick. It's a physical manifestation of her inner turmoil, and exposing oneself to the...
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Sense and Sensibility
A very excellent question! What this whole scene really comes down to is the theme of value. Edward valued loyalty above material gain and even above the good opinion of his relations. He even...
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Sense and Sensibility
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood have very disparate personalities. Elinor is reserved and tends to bottle up her feelings, while Marianne is overly dramatic. Elinor feels it her duty to make sure...
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen describes the Dashwood sisters as handling life after their father's death by basically carrying on with their own lives. Elinor becomes engrossed in getting to know Edward. She...
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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"...
