Hello, Friends here is My Presentation of Course No. 5 :- The Romantic Literature Presentation Topic :- Gender Stereotypes In Sense and Sensibility

1. Name :- Pritiba B. Gohil
Roll No. :- 21
Course No. 5 :- The Romantic Literature
Presentation Topic :- Gender Stereotypes In Sense and Sensibility
Enrolment No :- PG 14101016
M.A. English Semester - 2
Batch Year :- 2014 - 2016
Submitted to :-
Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

2. Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen

3. Jane Austen • Jane Austen was born on 16
December 1775 and died in 18 July
1817.
• She was an English Novelist.
• Jane Austen is a world renowned
English author.
• Jane Austen remains as popular as
ever and is revered as much as any
literary figure in the history of the
English language.
• Novels
1. Sense and Sensibility (1811)
2. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
3. Mansfield Park (1814)
4. Emma (1815)
5. Northanger Abbey (1818)
6. Persuasion (1818)

4. What Is Gender Stereotypes :-
• Gender stereotypes are simplistic
generalizations about the gender attributes,
differences, and roles of individuals and/or
groups.
• Stereotypes can be positive or negative, but
they rarely communicate accurate information
about others.
• When people automatically apply gender
assumptions to others regardless of evidence
to the contrary, they are perpetuating gender
stereotyping.
• Traditionally, the female stereotypic role is to
marry and have children. The male stereotypic
role is to be the financial provider.

5. Gender Stereotypes means NO EQUALITY between
Male And Female :-

7. How Gender Stereotypes Plays It’s Role In
Sense and Sensibility :-
• To talk about gender roles in Austen‘s time from a
21st century point of view is, to say the least, a
difficult endeavour.
• The issue of women and men‘s social and inner life
is one which is approached by the author with care
and respect towards both tradition and new ideas, in
a time between Classicism and Romanticism.
• This manner can be easily spotted in her novel
“Sense and Sensibility“ especially through the
characters of Elinor and Marianne.

9. Titleof SenseandSensibility:-
• Jane Austen wrote the first draft of
the novel in the form of a novel-in-
letters sometime around 1795
when she was about 19 years old,
and gave it the title Elinor and
Marianne. She later changed the
form to a narrative and the title to
Sense and Sensibility.
• "Sense" in the book means good
judgment or prudence, and
“Sensibility" means sensitivity or
emotionality.
• "Sense" is identified with the
character of Elinor, while
“Sensibility" is identified with the
character of Marianne.
• This is the story of Elinor and
Marianne Dashwood, sisters who
respectively represent the "sense"
and "sensibility" of the title.

10. • We should first stop to discuss the title itself, which actually
suggests a form of the well accepted over the years,
conventional gender opposition – the reasonable men and the
emotional women.
• Jane Austen however takes this conception and gently blends
both of the qualities into one female character as if to show
women of her time that they can be more and have control in
a society, which greatly restraints them, by first obtaining
control over themselves.
• Thus she instead creates the opposition of two young women
– the over spirited Marianne and the self controlled Elinor.
• To make matters clear we should, however, say that :-
 “Austen does... not condone an exclusion of sensibility
entirely; rather, in Elinor’s character Austen is arguing that
women, and even men, can still allow themselves to feel
without finding their “understandings neglected.””

11. • Indeed it would be a bit too easy to label either
one of the heroines as a representative of only one
of these characteristics.
• Elinor‘s seeming lack of feelings is actually a
screen for a complexed but contained nature and
the hurricane of emotions that Marianne
expresses is timed through sense in the end of the
novel.
• And it is the harmony between sense and
sensibility, between social conduct and moral
virtue, between appearance and inner life that
Austen is strifing to promote in all her characters
be they male or female.

15. Movies/TV Series that break the gender stereotype
now a days :-
• Kahaani
• Mardaani
• Mary Kom