Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

Comprehend with Sense,
Feel it with Sensibility!

Table of Contents

• Jane Austen
• The Biography and Works
• Sense and Sensibility
• Brief Information
• Character Analysis
• Discussions
• Main Themes of Sense and Sensibility
• The Society Reflected by the Novel

Sense and sensibility (film 1995)

Won Oscar.
Another 27 wins & 28 nominations

Jane Austen: Biography

• Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) a English novelist.
• Born at Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child in the eight-child family of the rector of the parish.
• Jane Austen was primarily educated at home by her father and older brothers and through her own reading.
• Not married

Works

• Novels:
• Sense and sensibility (1811)
• Pride and prejudice (1813)
• Mansfield Park (1814)
• Emma (1815)
• Northanger Abbey(1817)
• Persuasion(1817)
• Incomplete Novels
• Lady Susan
• Sanditon
• The Watsons
• Juvenilia:
• Love and Friendship
• The Beautiful Cassandra
• Catharine, or the Bower
• The History of England

Historical context

• The French Revolution.
• The War of American Independence.
• The start of the Industrial Revolution.
• The first generation of the Romantic poets
• Napoleonic wars

Social context

Status of women:

• No chance for high education.
• Not directly involved in politics.
• No professions.
• Supposed to marriage and work domestically.

Characteristics in Jane Austen’s works

• Social assimilation and upward mobility is a major theme in many of Austen's works.
• Most of Austen’s works were published posthumously (after death).
• Limited in middle-class family, relationship, marriage.
• highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security