Que....
"Sense and Sensibility is a novel of love and deception, of kindness and greed". Explain.
For more info. clike here
INTRODUCTION.....
Sense and Sensibility is a novel which is written by Jane Austen who was one of the most shining stars of the 18th century in the Romantic age which has its own place in the history of English literature and Jane Austen was also a second as a novelist because earlier only Mary Shelley was there to be a novelist and then Jane Austen was the lady who thought that she should write novel and mostly she has written a novel which are based on the domestic life that can be found in the every person’s life.
First it is necessary to know about the title that is selected by Jane Austen in her novel Sense and Sensibility. Jane Austen was particularly concerned with the answer to these questions, especially within the confines of her eighteenth century British society. Never more does she examine the possible answers to these questionsthan in her first published novel. Sense and Sensibility.Most critics understand thatAusten’s original title for this novel was not Sense and Sensibility but was ratherElinor and Marianne.Knowing this makes it more understandable as to why she used the word “sense” and the word “sensibility”; to see them in congruence with one another allows us to appreciate the opposites of her intentional juxtaposition, which is in essence that Elinor’s second name is “Sense,” and Marianne’s is “Sensibility.”
This becomes interesting because the definition of “sense” is that of having a“practical soundness of judgment,” and the eighteenth century definition of the word“sensibility” means an“emotional consciousness: quickness and acuteness of feeling”(“Sensibility”). To name the novel after both protagonists by using their propensities foreither sense or sensibility is clever and draws her readers to begin the novel by examiningElinor and Marianne as keepers o f either pathway to knowing what they think they know.It is a fair assumption that Austen, through her two protagonists, means to deliberatelypaint the portrait o f separation and difference between them, hence establishing thejuxtaposition.
The plot of Sense and Sensibility revolves around marriage. The novel begins with Elinor and Marianne as unmarried but eligible young women and only concludes when both of them settle into marriages. Engagements, possible matches, and marriages are the main concern of most the novel’s characters and the subject of much of their conversation. Thus, love is also of central importance to the novel, as Marianne and Elinor fall in love and seek to marry the men they love.
However, marriage isn’t all about love in the world of Sense and Sensibility. In fact, it’s often more about wealth, uniting families, and gaining social standing. Moreover, it’s often families and parents who attempt to decide engagements as much as any individual husband or wife. Mrs. Ferrars, for example, cares only about her sons marrying wealthy, upper-class women. She does not care whether Edward loves Lucy and cuts all ties with him when she learns of their engagement. For her, the decision of whom her sons will marry is as much hers as theirs, because their marriages are more about their whole family than about their own individual desires.
Marriage is an important part of the functioning of the high society in which Austen’s characters live. It determines who will inherit family fortunes and properties, and is of particular importance to women, whose futures depend almost entirely on the prospects of the men they marry. Nonetheless, while people in the novel often marry for reasons other than love (Willoughby, for example, marries Miss Grey just for money), Elinor and Marianne ultimately do marry for love. For Marianne, though, this means redefining her notion of love and allowing herself to develop affections for Colonel Brandon, even though she did not love him at first sight. The novel also shows the importance of love through a consideration of family. The bonds between Elinor, Marianne, Margaret, and their mother stand strong through all the difficulties they endure and at the end of the novel they maintain a happily close relationship. Thus, while marriage may often be more a matter of economics than of love, the examples of Marianne and Elinor show that it doesn’t necessarily have to be this way. And, insofar as marriage brings families together and creates new family units, it can create strong and lasting bonds of familial love.
Reference......
http://mdreviewportion.blogspot.in/2018/01/the-theme-and-summary-of-sense-and.html
http://thesecretunderstandingofthehearts.blogspot.in/2011/06/sense-and-sensibility-bicentenary.html
http://tadhava.blogspot.in/2015/03/sense-and-sensibility-is-novel-of-love.html
"Sense and Sensibility is a novel of love and deception, of kindness and greed". Explain.
For more info. clike here
INTRODUCTION.....
Sense and Sensibility is a novel which is written by Jane Austen who was one of the most shining stars of the 18th century in the Romantic age which has its own place in the history of English literature and Jane Austen was also a second as a novelist because earlier only Mary Shelley was there to be a novelist and then Jane Austen was the lady who thought that she should write novel and mostly she has written a novel which are based on the domestic life that can be found in the every person’s life.
First it is necessary to know about the title that is selected by Jane Austen in her novel Sense and Sensibility. Jane Austen was particularly concerned with the answer to these questions, especially within the confines of her eighteenth century British society. Never more does she examine the possible answers to these questionsthan in her first published novel. Sense and Sensibility.Most critics understand thatAusten’s original title for this novel was not Sense and Sensibility but was ratherElinor and Marianne.Knowing this makes it more understandable as to why she used the word “sense” and the word “sensibility”; to see them in congruence with one another allows us to appreciate the opposites of her intentional juxtaposition, which is in essence that Elinor’s second name is “Sense,” and Marianne’s is “Sensibility.”
This becomes interesting because the definition of “sense” is that of having a“practical soundness of judgment,” and the eighteenth century definition of the word“sensibility” means an“emotional consciousness: quickness and acuteness of feeling”(“Sensibility”). To name the novel after both protagonists by using their propensities foreither sense or sensibility is clever and draws her readers to begin the novel by examiningElinor and Marianne as keepers o f either pathway to knowing what they think they know.It is a fair assumption that Austen, through her two protagonists, means to deliberatelypaint the portrait o f separation and difference between them, hence establishing thejuxtaposition.
The plot of Sense and Sensibility revolves around marriage. The novel begins with Elinor and Marianne as unmarried but eligible young women and only concludes when both of them settle into marriages. Engagements, possible matches, and marriages are the main concern of most the novel’s characters and the subject of much of their conversation. Thus, love is also of central importance to the novel, as Marianne and Elinor fall in love and seek to marry the men they love.
However, marriage isn’t all about love in the world of Sense and Sensibility. In fact, it’s often more about wealth, uniting families, and gaining social standing. Moreover, it’s often families and parents who attempt to decide engagements as much as any individual husband or wife. Mrs. Ferrars, for example, cares only about her sons marrying wealthy, upper-class women. She does not care whether Edward loves Lucy and cuts all ties with him when she learns of their engagement. For her, the decision of whom her sons will marry is as much hers as theirs, because their marriages are more about their whole family than about their own individual desires.
Marriage is an important part of the functioning of the high society in which Austen’s characters live. It determines who will inherit family fortunes and properties, and is of particular importance to women, whose futures depend almost entirely on the prospects of the men they marry. Nonetheless, while people in the novel often marry for reasons other than love (Willoughby, for example, marries Miss Grey just for money), Elinor and Marianne ultimately do marry for love. For Marianne, though, this means redefining her notion of love and allowing herself to develop affections for Colonel Brandon, even though she did not love him at first sight. The novel also shows the importance of love through a consideration of family. The bonds between Elinor, Marianne, Margaret, and their mother stand strong through all the difficulties they endure and at the end of the novel they maintain a happily close relationship. Thus, while marriage may often be more a matter of economics than of love, the examples of Marianne and Elinor show that it doesn’t necessarily have to be this way. And, insofar as marriage brings families together and creates new family units, it can create strong and lasting bonds of familial love.
Reference......
http://mdreviewportion.blogspot.in/2018/01/the-theme-and-summary-of-sense-and.html
http://thesecretunderstandingofthehearts.blogspot.in/2011/06/sense-and-sensibility-bicentenary.html
http://tadhava.blogspot.in/2015/03/sense-and-sensibility-is-novel-of-love.html
No comments:
Post a Comment