This document compares and contrasts how family is presented in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In Sense and Sensibility, female characters are powerful and manage the family, while Elinor suffers after her father dies. The novel focuses on logic and emotion within family relationships. In Frankenstein, male characters are powerful and Victor suffers after losing his mother. Common elements include father-son relationships like Victor and his father or the Creature and Victor. Both novels examine parental responsibility and its impact on characters.

1. Topic :- Family as presented in sense and sensibility and
Frankenstein
Name :- Rasila jambucha
Roll no:- 24
Sem :- 2/M.A.
Paper :- Romantic literature
Submitted to :- smt.s.b.Gardi
maharaja krishanakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar university

2. Family as presented in
Sense and sensibility Frankenstein

3. sense and sensibility
 female characters are powerful
 female manage the whole family
 Elinor suffer because her is dead
 Novel focus on logic and emotion
 novel has detail of nineteenth century social
mores, family life and economic reality
 the issue of love relationship of,
Elinor
Marriane

4.  novel inspired by Austen’s own relationship with her
sister – Cassandra
 Cassandra represents wise Elinor, while
 Jane is like emotional Marriane
 Elinor mirrors Austen’s care about family member
( how she manage family after her fathers death )
 Elinor who holds down the family and discusses
the practicality of situation
 when Marriane hurt by Willoughby, she
tries her best to comfort her sister,
resolves the situation.

5.  for her family Elinor keeped her suffering bottled
up , but
 Marriane never keep anything bottled up, she is free
all the time
 Jane backbone of her family
 both sister have their pros and cons
 Jane is like emotional Marriane
 so, we find that only Elinor try to manage the family
 so, we can say that in the novel women character are
powerful

6. Frankenstein
 Male character are powerful
 victor suffer because earlier he lost his mother
 in Frankenstein common element is father son
relationship ex,
Victor and his
father
Creature and
victor
Old de lacey and
Felix

7.  victor created creature, so he is father of monster-did
not provide any kind of material or emotional support for
the son as father.
 that’s why he takes revenge,
because everybody neglects him
 frankenstein are rich, children provide all material
thing, but they not feel any kind of attachment to
their parents
 but Felix and his father are so closed because in their
poverty, they are in close physical and emotional
interaction

8.  parental irresponsibility is the rule in novel
 the relationship of captain Walton with her sister
Margret as maternal
 she seems to take the role of negligent parent in
Walton’s life
 Walton is ambitious, but not to the point of madness,
unlike victor
 he assumes the role of responsible parent to his crew
 we find victor’s absent form his family throught the
novel

9. conclusion
 sense and sensibility- realism
 frankenstein- gothic world
 but in both a miniature is appear
 each main character encounters a miniature of
his or her “LOVER”