paper 5 The romantic Literature

Name: Solanki Binita M.

Class: M.A., Sem: 02.

Subject: The Romantic Literature.

Topic: Balances between sense and

            Sensibility. 

Submitted to: Department of English

                 Maharaja Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.  

Introduction:

                    Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Jane Austen born, December 16, 1775 and died July 18, 1817. She wrote some famous book like: Pride and prejudices, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park.

                     Her novels, including pride and prejudices and sense and sensibility are considered literary classics, bridging the gap between romance and realism. Every fascinated by the world of stories, Jane began to write in bound notebook. Jane Austen also started to write some of her future major work the first called Elinor and Marianne another story told as a series of letters, which would eventually be published as sense and sensibility.

Short information about story.

              The Story revolves around Elinor and Marianne, two daughter of Mr. Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret and an older half brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John, and Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances. The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home, a cottage on a distant relatives property, where they experience both romance and heartbreak. The contrast between the sisters, characters is eventually resolves as they each find love and lasting, happiness. This leads some to believe that the book’s title describes how Elinor and Marianne find a balances sense and sensibility in life and love. The Plot revolves around a contrast between Elinor’s sense and Marianne’s emotionalism the two sisters may have been loosely based on the author and her beloved elder sister, Cassandra as with Austen casting Cassandra as the restrained and well. Judging sister and herself as the emotional one. Austen clearly intended to vindicate Elinor’s sense and self-restraint , and on the simplest level the novel may be read as a parody of the full-blown romanticism and sensibility that was the fashionable around the 1790s.

                  The novel display Austen’s sublet irony at its best with many outstanding comic passage about the Middleton’s, the palmers, Mrs. Jennings, and Lucy Steele.

Plot Overview:

When Mr. Dashwood dies, his esate-Noarland park passes to John, his only son, and child of his first wife. Mrs. Dashwood, his second wife, and their daughter, Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret are left only a small income. On his death bed Mr. Dashwood he asked John to promise to take care of his half sisters but John’s selfish wife, fanny soon perusals her weak –willed husband that he has no real obligated in the matter, and he gives the girls nothing, john and fanny move into Nor land as its new owners and the Dashwood women, new treated as guest in what was their home being looking for another place to live. Anne and Lucy Steele, cousins of lady Middleton, come to stay at Barton park. Elinor and Marianne spend the winter at Mrs. Jennings’ home in London. Marianne’s letters to Willoughby go unanswered, and he treats her coldly when he sees her at a party.                                             

v  How Austen is trying to make balance between sense and sensibility.

                           Marianne and Elinor Dashwood are two sister who couldn’t be more different from one another: Elinor is sensible and reserved, while her younger sister Marianne is passionate and spontaneous. The Dashwood sister’s lives changes forever when they find themselves guests in their own home after the death of their father.

                           After the Dashwood women move to a cottage found by Mrs. Dashwood’s cousin, Marianne is drawn to the romantic Willoughby. While Elinor keeps her truth feeling hidden, Marianne makes her known to everyone. As the Dashwood’s struggle with love and the loose of the life they had, they learn to find the balance between sense and sensibility. Austen tells us how much money they have, how much money will come to them, and particularly how much of it they are willing to share, using those factors to paint characters that are quite unlikeable.

                       The characters have this perfect mixture to flaw and virtue. At every scene we wonder who’s being smart, Elinor or Marianne. Many times we can’t help but to understand them and be on their sides, even when they sabotage themselves. In the story sea Monster is expanded edition of the beloved regency romance with thrilling all-new scenes of giant lobster rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents and other biological monstrosities.  As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Fearrans, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster colonel Brandon.

               Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rouges to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles which are forever snapping at their heels? With many strange and wonderful illustrations throughout, sense and sensibility and sea monster invades the prime and proper world of Jane Austen.

                  If we see the end of the book somewhat show how Marianne adopts some of Elinor’s sense and Elinor isn’t always capable of repressing her sensibility. I think Marianne’s sensibility consists not so much in the fact that she feels deeply as in the fact that she cultivates her own feeling. Her failing is that she values the emotion for itself- which is in the last analysis, a kind of fundamental insincerity.

                       The different between ‘sense’ and ‘sensibility’ is this , sensibility means to be over-whelmed with ones feeling. We can see that in Marianne and sometimes in Mrs. Dashwood they feed their grief. When Willoughby leaves she reads the book they read together sings the songs they sung together. I think Elinor is has sense in the context to being responsible. “sense” at the time meant “sensory”, “sensibility” meant “being sensible”. There is an irony in “sense and sensibility”, thought, however you define Sense and sensibility. While Marianne is the more romantic and emotional she winds up with a practical romance. Elinor is the more practical and restrained of the two, but she has the more emotional romance.

                    Elinor is the “sense” part: season, social responsibility and a clear- headed concern for the welfare of others. She’s the responsible one, the glue that holds the family together after the death of the father.  Where Marianne is obviously represents the “sensibility” part: emotional, spontaneous, impulsive, and devoted. So out there free spirited, carefree personality that is not afraid to show emotional anywhere, anytime.

                              It was mentioned more than once in the book two like when Marianne was mocking, Colonel Brandon with Willoughby and Elinor was defending him she said “Sense will always have attraction for me” and more than once Marianne mentioned how “sensibility” was important for her. They both are learn from each other’s character and by balancing those two extremes they both found happiness there’s also another explanation for it, that Austen meant by these contrast to relate to literally movements, Elinor represent with eighteenth-century neo –classicism, including, rationality , insight, Judgment, Moderation and balance. She never loses sight or propriety, economic practicalities, and perspective.

v  Conclusion:

            In the end both dispositions intertwined: Elinor finally managed to brake off of the shell in which she was enclosed in and said her true feeling about Edward: Marianne took more heed of her head and saw that love, in it’s purest form, is not and never-ending circus or showing off an exaggeration of her emotion and that a quiet love could be just or even more rewarding that the first infatuation.