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- 1. Paper No:-5 The RomanticLiterature Prepared by Makwana Monika Department of English
- 2. • Themes ofsense and sensibility Name: Makwana Monika Paper No:-5 The Romantic Literature Topic: Themes of Sense and sensibility Roll No: 21 Enrollment No: 2069108420190027 Email I’d: makwanamonika76@gmail.com Submitted to: S. B. Gardi department of English
- 3. • Introduction ofthe novel • Sense and sensibility is a novel written by Jane Austen. • Published in 1811. • Divided into three volume. • It tells a story of Dashwood family. • Elinor and Marianne are main characters of the novel. • The novel based on Marianne and Elinor Dashwood. • Main theme in this novel is the danger of excessive sensibility.
- 4. • About theAuthor • She was born on 16 December 1775. • She was an English novelist • Known primary for her six major novels. • Her novels:- 1. Sense and sensibility 2. Pride and prejudice 3. Mansfield park 4. Emma 5. Northanger Abbey 6. persuasion
- 5. • Themes ofSense and Sensibility • Love and Marriage • Money and inheritance • Self-sacrifice and selfishness • Moderation • Jealousy • Appearance vs. reality
- 6. • Main themeof the novel • Sense/Sensibility • In those novel Jane Austen drawn to on the cusp between two culture movements: classicism or Romanticism. • The distinction is most clearly symbolized by the psychological between the novel’s two chief characters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.
- 7. • sense •sensibility • The middle sister and too emotional • The elder sister of dashwood family Deals with common understanding Deals with emotional and attitude
- 8. • Love andMarriage • Elinor falls in love with Edward. • Edward has true with Elinor because of that he marries with Elinor through he dissertates from will. That’s why call marriage for love. • Love story between Marianne and Willoughby, all think that both will marry but after some time Willoughby runs away to London and never comes back, later news comes that he married with Sophia. • In the end of the novel Marianne got married with colonel.
- 9. • Money andInheritance • Willoughby’s first love is Marianne but for him money is more important than love. • He married with Sophia because of Money. • Marianne also marries with colonel Brandon for social status. • Low surrounding inheritance are what put the dashwood women in limbo at the beginning of the novel and their lack of money, compounded with their inability to work, means that they cannot ease their situation, except through marrying well.
- 10. • Self-sacrifice andselfishness • Elinor especially is a model of self- sacrifice, at first she left Edward for the sake of her mother and sisters and started living at Barton park. • While, Marianne is a model of selfishness, caring only for herself and her feeling, she needs Elinor’s help and goodwill to get by, but needs to learn how to be giving towards others in order to become her own, independence person.
- 11. • Moderation • Mariannemust learn moderation of her emotion if she is to become independent of Elinor and become an adult; her trials serve to teach her about her excesses, and luckily, she does come to improve herself and become a much better, more caring person toward others.
- 12. • Jealousy • Relatesmostly to Lucy Steele, and is the prime determinant of her behavior toward Elinor. • Willoughby also becomes jealous of colonel marrying Marianne, and other, petty jealousies become evident in character. • Indicates insecurity, or poor character.
- 13. • Appearance vs.Reality • Pertains to character especially, as many character in the novel present themselves as one thing, and ends up being another. • John Willoughby is the best example of this, as he seems romantic, open and genuine but ends up exposing himself as vain, idle and cruel. • Also pertain to Lucy steel, who ends up conniving despite her innocent appearance. • At first she engaged with Edward and then she come to known that Robert is the inherent of property. • She engaged with Robert and left Edward.
- 14. • conclusion • Thetheme of the novel is very simple. The theme of sensibility is illustrated in the love affairs between Marianne and Willoughby and the theme of sense begins with the relationship of Elinor and Edward. the character of Marianne is too emotional in matter of love. And her this attitude let her to tragic end of her love story. The novel illustrate love, jealousy, money, selfishness, social life and peoples behavior.
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