Sense and Sensibility

1. Sense and Sensibility Comprehend with Sense, Feel it with Sensibility! Yeilin Ham 20040604 Tran An Khang 20070927 Mijeong Oh 20060361

2. Table of Contents • Jane Austen • The Biography and Works • Sense and Sensibility • Brief Information • Character Analysis • Discussions • Main Themes of Sense and Sensibility • The Society Reflected by the Novel

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4. Jane Austen: Biography • Jane Austen(16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817)a English novelist. • Born at Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child in the eight-child family of the rector of the parish. • Jane Austen was primarily educated at home by her father and older brothers and through her own reading. • Not married

5. Works • Novels: • Sense and sensibility (1811) • Pride and prejudice (1813) • Mansfield Park (1814) • Emma (1815) • Northanger Abbey(1817) • Persuasion(1817) • Incomplete Novels • Lady Susan • Sanditon • The Watsons • Juvenilia: • Love and Friendship • The Beautiful Cassandra • Catharine, or the Bower • The History of England

6. Historical context • The French Revolution. • The War of American Independence. • The start of the Industrial Revolution. • The first generation of the Romantic poets • Napoleonic wars

7. Social context Status of women: • No chance for high education. • Not directly involved in politics. • No professions. • Supposed to marriage and work domestically.

8. Characteristics in Jane Austen’s works • Social assimilation and upward mobility is a major theme in many of Austen's works. • Most of Austen’s works were published posthumously (after death). • Limited in middle-class family, relationship, marriage. • highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security

9. Jane Austen’s limitation • No political problem, no violence. • No one dies “on stage” of the novels. • Sparing of describing internal thoughts and emotions of male characters. • Sparing with physical descriptions of people and places. • Not describing closely lovers' embraces and endearments. • The places for her novels are very restricted. • Ect…

10. Character Relationship

11. Elinor & MarianneSense & Sensibility

12. Sonnet 116by William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage or true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come: Love alters not with its brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no men ever loved.

13. Discussion Topic 1Main Themes of Sense and Sensibility • “Sense” vs. “Sensibility” • Which one is more important? • Balancing between these two

14. Discussion Topic 1Main Themes of Sense and Sensibility ‘I know how badly I have behaved! My illness has given me time to think. I should never have been so in cautious in my behavior with Willoughby, and so impolite to other people. I know now that my own uncontrolled feelings caused my suffering……’ (p.82) Then at nineteen, with feelings of only warm friendship and respect, she agreed to marry a man she had once considered dull, and far too old for marriage! …… …… Marianne, who could never love by halves, came in time to love her husband as much as she had loved Willoughby. (p.87)

15. Discussion Topic 1Main Themes of Sense and Sensibility • Two Ways of Loving • Moderate and Thoughtful • Emotional and Passionate • Is love really one of the two?

16. Discussion Topic 1Main Themes of Sense and Sensibility ‘Like him! Respect him!’ she cried. ‘Oh, cold-hearted Elinor! Why should you be ashamed of expressing love?’ (p.9) ‘Your sister, I understand, dose not approve of second attachments’, …… ‘Her opinions are all romantic. She believes that we fall in love once only in our lives. But I hope that in a few years she will become more sensible.’ (P.24)

17. Discussion Topic 2The 19th century SocietyReflected by Sense and Sensibility • The Satire Used in This Novel • The sentimentality and the “dating game” • Marianne, Willoughby, and Lucy • The roles of women and the marriage • Palmers, John and Fanny Dashwood, and Willoughby

18. Discussion Topic 2The 19th century SocietyReflected by Sense and Sensibility Mrs Jennings was a widow, with a comfortable fortune. …… now had nothing to do but to marry off the rest of the world. She spent most of time planning weddings for all the young people she knew, and was remarkably quick at discovering attachments. (p.16) Their [Miss Steeles] appearance was by no means unfashionable, They were full of praise for the beauty and intelligence of her children, …… Lady Middleton watched proudly as her spoilt children pulled the Miss Steeles’ hair, stole their sewing scissors, and tore their books. (p. 38-39) This one meeting with the Miss Steeles would have been quite enough for Elinor, who disliked the vulgar freedom and foolishness of the elder, and the clever pretence of the younger. (p.41)

19. Discussion Topic 2The 19th century SocietyReflected by Sense and Sensibility • The Status of Women in 1800s • Women could not own property and were expected to stay in the home • Marriage is necessary to secure their social positions and financial stability for the future

20. References • Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Oxford University Press. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_and_sensibility • http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8563/essays/essay7.html • http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shakesonnets/section8.rhtml • http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/sense/about.html • http://www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism/sense-sensibility/introduction • http://www.enotes.com/sense-sensibility/q-and-a/what-some-examples-austen-s-use-satire-5229

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