Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen’s 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…

Character Relationship

Elinor & Marianne Sense & Sensibility

Practical, rational, sensible	Sensitive, emotional, compassionate
Their priority
Behavior toward the people they don’t like
When they leave their old house, Norland.
When they hear the engagement of someone they love

Surprises, but does not express it

Suffers to die

Family and friends than herself

Emotion of herself than what others think

Feels sad but keeps it to herself

Exclaims her sadness with words

Polite to everybody

Expresses her dislike

Sonnet 116 by 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 worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s 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.