Sense and Sensibility

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Sense and Sensibility
Comprehend with Sense, Feel it with Sensibility!
Yeilin Ham 20040604 Tran An Khang
20070927 Mijeong Oh 20060361
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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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Sense and sensibility (film 1995)
Won Oscar. Another 27 wins 28 nominations
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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

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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

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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

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Social context

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

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Characteristics in Jane Austens works

• Social assimilation and upward mobility is a
  major theme in many of Austen's works.
• Most of Austens 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

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Jane Austens 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

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Character Relationship
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Elinor MarianneSense Sensibility
Practical, rational, sensible Sensitive, emotional, compassionate
Their priority Their priority
Behavior toward the people they dont like Behavior toward the people they dont like
When they leave their old house, Norland. When they leave their old house, Norland.
When they hear the engagement of someone they love When they hear the engagement of someone they love
Family and friends than herself Emotion of herself than what others think
Polite to everybody Expresses her dislike
Feels sad but keeps it to herself Exclaims her sadness with words
Surprises, but does not express it Suffers to die
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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 worths unknown,
although his height be taken. Loves not Times
fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his
bending sickles 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.
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Discussion Topic 1Main Themes of Sense and
Sensibility

• Sense vs. Sensibility
• Which one is more important?
• Balancing between these two

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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)

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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?

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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)

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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

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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)

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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

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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/sens
  e/about.html
• http//www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism
  /sense-sensibility/introduction
• http//www.enotes.com/sense-sensibility/q-and-a/wh
  at-some-examples-austen-s-use-satire-5229

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