The document compares the conditions of women in the Victorian age as depicted in Jane Austen's novel 'Sense and Sensibility' with those of 21st-century women. In the Victorian era, women faced societal pressures to marry and conform to restrictive roles, while contemporary women enjoy greater freedoms such as voting, owning property, and choosing their career paths. The analysis highlights the evolution of women's rights and roles across two distinct time periods.

1. Name: Drashti P. Nagla
Roll No. : 9
Paper no : 5 The Romantic Literature
Presentation topic: different between
Victorian age woman condition
and 21st century woman condition.
Enrolment no: 2069108420170021
M.A English semester – 2
Beach year : 2016-18
Submitted to – Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University.

2. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
BY JANE AUSTEN
different between
Victorian age woman
condition
and 21st century woman
condition

3. Introduction about Author: Jane
Austen  Jane Austen was born on 16
December 1775 and died in 18 July
1817.
 She was an English novelist.
 Jane Austen remains as popular as
ever and is revered as much as any
literary figure in the history of the English
Literature.
 Her famous Novels are:
 Sense and Sensibility(1811)
 Pride and Prejudice(1813)
 Mansfield park(1814)
 Emma(1815)
 Northanger Abbey(1818)
 Persuasion(1818)

4. Introduction about novel:
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen’s 1st Novel.
Romantic fiction.
The Dashwood sisters –
central characters.
Novel divided into three
volumes .
Story of Dashwood sisters
sense and Sensibility.
Novel main focus on the
lives of Elinor and Marianne.
Themes of Marriage.

5. THE WOMAN CHARACTERS OF SENSE AND
SENSIBILITY :
 The characters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood in
Jane Austen’s novel conduct themselves in a
manner that many woman of that time period also
behaved; no matter what obstacles they faced, their
focus was always finding a husband to secure a
comfortable future.
 Elinor Dashwood:
The eldest daughter of
Dashwood family at 19 years old. She forms the
‘sense’ in the title of Austen’s novel. She is reserved
and practical and often serves as her mother’s
counselor.

6. o Mrianne Dashwood :
At 17 Marianne is the
second oldest daughter in the Dashwood family.
Unlike her sister who is quite and reserved ,
Marianne is spontaneous and encouraged
excess ‘sensibility’.
o Mrs. Dashwood :
The mother of Elinor,
Marianne and their younger sister Margaret and
second wife of Mr. Henry Dashwood. She is kind,
loving and romantic, just like Marianne and only
wants what’s best for her daughters, which is
finding suitable marriages.

7. Elinor Dashwood Marianne Dashwood
Fanny Dashwood Mrs. Dashwood

8. Fanny Dashwood :
The selfish wife of John Dashwood , Mr.
Dashwood ‘s son from his first Marriage. She is manipulative
and greedy. Her goal is always to have money. She convinces
her weak- willed husband, to stop supporting his mother and
two younger sisters a little after father dies.
The 19th century women condition:
1. when wearing a corset, remember that breathing is
unimportant. They believe that tighter the better! Everyone is
doing it! It is perfectly normal if you distort your body.
(example of : Pirates of the Caribbean.)

9. 2. Finding a husband is your number one priority. Marriage is
the key to success. Your only purpose in life is to bear
children and make your husband happy.
3.Never be dull. Dullness is a sin. But don’t get too
expressive
.
 21st century women
condition :
1.Nowadays women can
vote.

10. 2. They can own their own land and
homes.

11. 3. They can choose what they want to do, where they
want to work, and if they even want to get married.
What they want to do
Where they want to
work