Sense and sensibility is a novel of love and deception of kindness & greed explain

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Sense and sensibility is a novel of love and deception of kindness & greed explain

                                                               Vanita P. Tadha

MA Sem: 2         Roll No. : 30

Year: 2014-15        Enrolment No. : pg14101029

Sub: The Romantic Literature (paper: 5)

Email ID: tadhavanita90@gmail.com

Guided By: Department of English [Heena mam]

Jane Austen

Born: 16 December 1775

Died: 18 July 1817

Period: 1787 to 1809-11

Genre: Romance

  Jane Austen was an English novelist. She was educated primarily by her father and older brother. Her works, usually popular, were first published anonymously and brought her little personal fame.

As a child Austen began writing comic stories, now referred to as the Juvenilia. Her first mature work, Lady Susan written in epistolary from. This was preserved by her family but was not published until her death.

Austen wrote the novels that later became Sense and Sensibility and Pride Prejudice.

Sense and Sensibility is a novel of love

 This is the story of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, sister who respectively represent the “sensibility” of the title with their mother their Margaret, and their stepbrother John, they make up the Dashwood family.

When the novel open Mr. Henry Dashwood dies leaving all his money to his first wife’s son John Dashwood his second wife and her three daughter are left with no permanent home and very little income. Mrs.dashwood and her daughter [Elinor, Marianne and Margaret] are invited to stay with their distant relation, the Middleton, at Barton Park.

Elinor Dashwood was nineteen year oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood. She is sad to leave their home at Norland because she has become closely attached to Edward Ferrar.                              

Both love each other but at London he secret engagement to Lucy steel and ultimately he marries with Elinor.

At Barton Park Elinor and Marianne discover many new acquaintances, including the retired officer and bachelor Colonel Brandon.

 Marianne and Margaret go to hills at Barton in the rain. They enjoy a lot and suddenly Marianne falls down and twists her ankle. A Stanger, John Willoughby, who is staying at Allenham Court. Marianne and Willoughby fall in love.                

But after a short time, Willoughby leaves unexpectedly for London without explaining or declaring himself.

Willoughby’s feelings for Marianne

 There is some confusion as to Willoughby and true feelings for Marianne. Willoughby’s and Marianne both give the same account and the same explanations about Willoughby’s feelings for Marianne.

“When I first became

Intimate in your family, I had

No other intention, no other

View in the acquaintance

Than to pass my time

Pleasantly while I was

Obliged to remain in

Devonshire

Willoughby’s speech to Elinor confirms what Marianne had long before told her soon after the events of the ball.

With proof of both their hearts and both their words confirming the same thing we must talk with Marianne in saying.

“[Willoughby] is not so

Unworthy as you believe

Him… I my own soul could

Wish” [ch-29]

By their speech we can understand that they extremely love each other.

Familial love

In Sense and Sensibility Austen show us a wide range of family relationship Mr. and Dashwood has tread daughter, Elinor, Marianne and Margret. Mrs. Dashwood is a like and loving mother but he wasn’t doing the best for her daughter.

Three sisters love each other and always ready for help. Elinor supports her younger sister Marianne. Margaret shares her sister Marianne romantic tendencies.

In Ferrars family they also love each other but they are selfish snobbish and wealthy manipulative.

Sense and Sensibility is a novel of deception

Sense and Sensibility is chock full of both. Many secrets much concealed within each characters, between characters, and between the author and the readers.

We believed that Elinor is all seeing, but indeed she often misunderstands, and wrong in her assumption. Willoughby is true romantic secret to all, as a good person. Majority character remains silent rather than reveal.

There is also an element of surprise in the unexpected arrivals of the various heroes.

We can also find one more element is manipulation. The story begins with a secret on his deathbed, Henry Dashwood requests his son to help her then why he gave his property to his first wife’s son John Dashwood. Mr. John Dashwood thought to offer a present of $ 1000 a piece to each of his sisters and Mrs. Dashwood is led to believe he will take care of them in some way.

All three of the male character has secret of a previous romantic entanglement of Colonel Brandon’s ward Eliza. We believe as Mrs. Dashwood and Elinor and Marianne do, that the unexpected departure.

Colonel Brandon also walking secret with his past of injuries and disappointment the story of his first love reveals in thought the novel-“I once knew a lady”.

Even Robert farers have a secret – his deceptive growing relationship with Lucy, reaming hidden.

But it is not just the men who have secrets, the women do as well- all of them! Lucy’s engagement, her “great secret” and her use of this to manipulate Elinor is what drives the plot. But Elinor is the keeper of secrets- she not tells to other about Lucy’s engagement. She keeps Brandon’s secrets; but she also conceals her own feelings about Edward.

Mrs. Jennings, certainly the most loveable of Austen’s cast of annoying character. In Mrs. Jennings we have the lover and teller of secrets, the good natured gossip, though she most often gets it all wrong. Austen’ belief in gossiping as nearly a living social entity that undermines the keeping of secrets.

Sense and Sensibility is a novel of Kindness and greedy.

This is the story of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood sisters who represent the “sense” and “sensibility”. Mrs. Dashwood has kindness for her daughter and she wants to help them but unfortunately she fail.

Edward Ferrars and Elinor, both have sympathy each other but Edward avoid Elinor and start affair with Lucy. She has been secretly engaged to Edward Ferrars. He is a greedy man her but he has also feelings on kindness for Elinor so that he ultimately marries with her.

Ferrars Family was wealthy but greedy. Fanny wants to keep whole property therefore she says to her husband that we keep property and give small part to sister and Mrs. Dashwood. Henry estate was inherited by John and he has nothing but ten thousand pounds to leave to his wife and daughter. It shows kindness for his family and on the other side give priority to son. John has already richness because he has fortune from his mother and is also married to the wealthy Fanny Ferrars.

Mrs. Dashwood and Marianne expect an engagement of Elinor and Edward, but Elinor is not so sure; she knows that Mrs. Ferrars and Fanny will object to Edward’s interest in her. Fanny takes exception to Edward’s fondness for Elinor and is so rude that Mrs. Dashwood at once rents a cottage fortuitously offered to her cousin, Sir John Middleton.

Dashwoods sister were innocent therefore they suddenly accept their first attraction toward Dashwood sister they start searching new friend and fortunately they got so they make affair with them.

Conclusion

Thus, the story of Elinor and Marianne, respectively represent the “sense” and “sensibility”. The novel open with negative description and it indicate that the novel will be full of tension or confusion. We can see “love” is center of the novel and element “money” create the problem between characters. In London Marianne waits for Willoughby for visit from. She writes several times but receives no reply. One day he leaves his card but never calls personally. It is a hypocritical person of some character.