The Importance Of Love In Jane Austen's Sense And Sensibility

This article analyzes the way Austen portrays women in her novels. Kruger mentions that Jane Austen’s work is often deprived by the

Jane Austen's 1811 novel "Sense and Sensibility" puts across an account involving two English sisters who come across a series of hardships in their endeavor to find their personal identities in a relatively hostile environment. Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are forced to leave their home, the estate at Norland Park, consequent to their father's death. The two experience economic problems and come to see the world with different eyes as they move in a small house and as they interact with people who are primarily motivated by finances. Even though the two sisters have diverging personalities, they go through similar experiences and they come to have similar perceptions of society.

Jane Austen’s novel of manners, Emma, is about a young woman named Emma who considers herself a matchmaker and believes she will never marry. Austen’s purpose is to unveil the coming-of-age maturity and self realization Emma will go through in the duration of marriages of her friends and situations between her and other people. She creates a witty, romantic atmosphere around the book with the aid of rhetorical devices, such as imagery and symbolism, and occurring themes, such as marriages, foolishness of character, and transformation of the main character. Also, there is a generation of ironic tone in order to capture the attention of readers who relate their feelings towards Emma. This novel captures the readers’ hearts through Emma’s amorous,

Jane Austen's groundbreaking novel Sense and Sensibility is a relationship-driven account of female protagonists. Sense and Sensibility shares much in common with other novels by and about women. Themes like autonomy versus independence and the role of women in a patriarchal society are explored in Sense and Sensibility. Using two sisters to symbolize the different directions the female spirit can be pulled, Austen shows the variable ways women respond to political, social, and economic oppression. The women of Sense and Sensibility are both trapped by, and breaking free from, the conventions of marriage and motherhood. Marriage and motherhood are portrayed ironically as the natural course of women's lives, but also as the chain that prevents their self-fulfillment. The social norm of patrilineal inheritance leaves Elinore and Marianne Dashwood, and their mother, penniless and dependent on distant male family members. Marriage and motherhood are restrictive roles for women, and yet Austen never provides a satisfactory alternative for Marianne. Marianne seems willing to break free from patriarchal social norms, but she ends up being a slave to heterosexual romance. The message in Sense and Sensibility ends up being rather bleak: women remain socially, economically, and politically oppressed because they cannot envision or enact suitable independent alternatives.

Love has been known to change people for the better. In the book “Pride and Prejudice”, Jane Austen uses various characters to demonstrate the selflessness of love despite the many obstacles that come with love. Love’s selflessness can come in many forms, such as helping others with nothing expected in return and setting aside one's personal beliefs to benefit another person. However, these altruistic moments come with many obstacles as well, like unrequited love and having to swallow one’s pride.

Jane Austen’s novel of manners, Emma, is about a young woman named Emma who considers herself a matchmaker and believes she will never marry. Austen’s purpose is to unveil the coming-of-age maturity and self realization Emma will go through in the duration of marriages of her friends and situations between her and other people. She creates a witty, romantic atmosphere around the book with the aid of rhetorical devices, such as imagery and symbolism, and occurring themes, such as consummated marriages, foolishness of character, and transformation of the main character. Also, there is a generation of ironic tone in order to capture the attention of readers who relate their feelings towards Emma. This novel captures the readers’ hearts through

Austen also wrote novels that showed that women can and should use their minds particularly Elizabeth Bennet. Sense and Sensibility also is a romantic novel that keeps to the same theme of women using their minds. It is about three sisters and their mother. The main two characters however are Marianne and Elinor Dashwood. Like Austen, they struggled with money and were forced to move after their father’s untimely death. After they move they both meet men that they think they love and both get hurt because of this love. Also like Austen, Marianne meets a man named Willoughy. They fall in love and he ends up leaving her because of her financial situation. Elinor has almost the same situation although it is very different in the end. After the Dashwood sisters meet the Steele sisters, Elinor decides that they do not use their minds like they could. Elinor’s different situation is with a man named Ferrar. He almost has to marry Lucy Steele over Elinor because of her financial situation but she ends up being able to marry for love and Lucy married Ferrar’s brother. Marianne ends up also getting married but not to Willoughby and not completely for love. This book was a great example of how Austen showed how uses day to day activities to show the woman’s

Jane Austen exaggerates Wordsworth’s ideas of the poet and Romanticism, when we see the potential husbands of Laura and Sophia. The husband 's display their emotions and feelings openly to each other, while the woman faint against for the openly display of emotions. Austen use of hyperbole and exaggerate makes her criticism know on how women are generally depicted as emotionally filled idiots who faint every second on the page. She does the reversal and put these ideals on the

Jane Austen depicts people attracted to their opposites, but, ultimately, they end up with those who share similar values; she shows that the happiness of the character depends on their morality.

Jane Austens literary style uses an different approach different than that of the 19th century. “Far ahead of her time in the techniques of narration, especially in the control of point of view, Jane Austen, through her fidelity to life, her declination of character, and her ironic insight, produced sophisticated comedy, unsurpassed in the English novel.” (Magill) Advancement in her work allowed it to keep popularity, and still capture readers today. “We read Austen because she seems to know us better than we know ourselves, and she seems to know us so intimately for the simple reason that she helped determine who we are both as readers and as human beings.”(Bloom) Her ability to communicate with readers seems to be a compelling argument for her success, but her irony and humor have also served as a contribution. James Collins writes “Her ironies swirl and drop like the cast of a fly fisherman. This rhythmic motion seems to me ideal for both accepting and rejecting the ways of the wretched world while maintaining balance.” It may be difficult to understand how Jane is so able to relate even though she never married herself, but her unceasing concern for others is what gets her through the most. Austen had dealt with heart break, she lost a loved one unexpectedly “While away from Bath on a family vacation, Austen fell in love with a young churchman, who it was expected would propose marriage to her. He had received permission from the

Throughout sense and sensibility, Elinor is shown to be fair and just in her personal judgements. Elinor is also distinguished for her ability to self govern her feelings. The neo classics disprove of one indulging in feelings and believe one should instead conceal them, suffering silently. An example of this can be seen when Edward breaks Elinor's heart, thus Austin places Elinor and Marianne in parallel situations. Marianne, the romantic, focuses solely on her own feelings and disregards the feelings of others. However, Elinor follows Neo Classic ethics by remaining a pillar of support for those who depend on her. She does not withdraw away and contemplate her life but instead carries on with the duties she undertook since the beginning of the novel. She continually self sacrifices her desire to the needs and benefit of those around her, showing a magnanimous concern to others while silencing her own feelings; dealing with issues with an unbiased outlook:

Austen has always been a favorite of mine; she brings together romance, drama, comedy and life lessons all in one book. Even though Jane Austen’s books are seen as literature, she has shown to be genuinely funny without needing the use of figurative language. Her attitude of being a realist and not putting the make belief truth makes her books more interesting and relatable to the real world. The loving sister relationship was the best part of this book. Elinor and Marianne have proved throughout the entire book that they will each stand up for each other, despite their different personalities and beliefs.

Violence of feeling is what causes the destruction of the protagonists in George Gordon’s Manfred and Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility . A lack of propriety and a naïve notion of passion is what controls Marianne. When Marianne seeks to indulge in a relationship built on the idea of ‘passion’, she almost causes her complete destruction. Manfred, on the other hand, seeks his own destruction by allowing his incestual and narcissistic desire to control him. By allowing himself to engage in the incestual relationship with his sister, he is dictating his own destruction. Desire and passion are the driving attributes of the main characters I will discuss in this essay.

In the novel of "Pride and Prejudice", the author Jane Austen uses a lot of literary devices to emphasize her story. One of the main themes is love, which connects towards marriage or separation of the characters. She uses characterization to give the reader a much more clear perception of the different characteristics and to strengthen her themes. Irony is shown a lot on how women want to marry wealthy men to save their repetition or family matters. Lastly, Imagery is used constantly throughout the novel to show characters emotions or reactions to the events.

One of the most famous authors of the Regency period, Jane Austen, the novelist whom wrote Sense and Sensibility and many other novels, made a splash in the literature world for women. Being a woman was very difficult during the Regency period and women were not treated as equals to men. In the novel, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen shows the strength of women and how even when all the odds are against them hope still exists. Austen demonstrates how the role of women is vital even though it is not always perceived that way by society. In this novel Austen distinguishes between Sense and Sensibility by demonstrating the use of the Golden Mean. The idea proposed by a poem written by Horace basically states that that too much of anything can be a bad thing. Success in life is all about staying between luxuriance and insufficiency. Through the “Golden Mean” Austen teaches the meaning of life. Austen continues to surprise the readers with her beautiful lessons about life and what it means to be a woman. In this novel Austen shows that life is easier to live when people stay between two extremes or live in the “Golden Mean.”