Theme Of Innocence In Sense And Sensibility

Throughout history, relationships between people have been questioned based off what people have heard or seen. Jane Austen writes the love story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, that have conflicts when it comes to their relationships caused by miscommunication. In Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen reveals the danger of making judgements on insufficient information through relationships between the characters. Miscommunication creates confusion and a mix of emotions from the characters.

Love comes in many shapes and forms, whether it’s an inanimate object or a person you want to spend the rest of your life with. Jane Austen’s novel, “Sense and Sensibility”, revolves around two sisters who try to find true love, while requiring a balance of reason and emotion. Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are viewed as two completely different people. Elinor is known to represent “sense” while Marianne represents “sensibility.” In the novel, Jane Austen emphasizes two common women’s characteristics, and shows us how Elinor and Marianne both find love and happiness only by overcoming their struggles and learning from one another’s actions and mistakes.

In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird the most commonly identified theme is the loss or destruction of innocence. Innocence has a number of meanings and a lot of these are shown within the story. The main ones represented in the book are, the state, quality, or fact of being innocent of a crime or offense, lack of guile or corruption, having purity, and freedom from guilt or sin especially through lack of knowledge of evil. There are characters who include Jem and Scout, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley who show their definition of innocence through the book. Each of these characters who has their innocence goes down a path where they lose it and they have to take on the world face to face.

One person that seems to contribute greatly to the way love is perceived in this book is Marianne, as she experiences heartbreak but also great joy in finding the person to make her happy for the rest of her life. As she progresses through her life in the novel, she slowly reveals what love truly is through real-life situations that are similar to reality, without being sugarcoated or changed to please the reader’s mind. Jane Austen uses Marianne to show her own view of what she thinks that love can be like, and how it is not always what you might think.

Looking back at early forms of literature we notice the classic idea of heroism in Beowulf. As time passes by the notion of a hero changes. Consciousness in early literature such as, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, does not enter the innermost thoughts. The notion of a hero and the notion of consciousness changes within literature through time. In the novel, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen the hero is portrayed differently compared to earlier texts as well as the characters being aware of one’s environment. The author Jane Austen, carefully shapes her characters’ actions, feelings and affiliations in a specific way. In Sense and Sensibility we have a clearer picture of the consciousness of characters than what we see in Beowulf or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is best known as a literary classic, telling the tale of a young girl named Jean Louise “Scout” Finch’s childhood in a southern Alabama town during the great depression. While the fate of a black male convicted of rape still looms in the synopsis. To Kill a Mockingbird the title of the novel, refers to a quote on page 119. Both said by Atticus Finch the town of Maycomb's lawyer and Miss Maudie his neighbor, “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”. As said by Miss Maudie “ Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119). The title of this novel isn’t only referencing this quote,

This literary analysis of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen will examine the historical deconstruction of the submissive female in the existential philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex. In Beauvoir’s historical analysis of the submissive behaviors of women‘s gender roles, the problem of historical education in patriarchal society often controls women through the “history of inheritance.” Austen’s primary theme in Sense and Sensibility is the ‘sensible’ nature of Elinor, yet she is often subservient to ignorant wealthy males in her ascension into the British upper classes. However, Beauvoir identifies the superficial historical construction of patriarchal gender values have taught women to be submissive, which reveals the heroic determination of Elinor’s sensible behaviors in the family. Austen’s literary heroines, such as Elinor, define the historical context in which women are sublimated due to the patriarchal gender values imposed on them in British society. In essence, of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen will define the historical deconstruction of the submissive female in the existential philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir.

Like Marianne, Mrs. Dashwood is romantic and whimsical, more prone to act on feelings than reason. Also similar to her youngest daughter, she often misjudges both the characters and situations of individuals. When Elinor tells Marianne of the difficulties Mrs. Ferrars presents in marrying Edward, "Marianne was astonished to find how much the imagination of her mother and herself had outstripped the truth" (18). Furthermore, Mrs. Dashwood's reaction to Willoughby is just as naïve as Marianne's. "In Mrs. Dashwood's opinion, he was as faultless as in Marianne's" (43). It is only Elinor, acting with the maternal caution her mother does not possess, who has reservations about Marianne's suitor.

Often, two people who have endured similar life experiences and share an unmistakable parallel in lifestyles can be viewed as duplicates of one individual. In Sense and Sensibility, the two main characters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood can be seen as two extensions of the same character. The sisters are relatively close in age, grew up with the same social expectations of the same time period and household, and they evidently experienced similar childhood and family trauma and problems. Although it could be argued that they are the same character, these young women are very different from each other, in respects to their roles and practice of responsibility, their display of emotions, and openness to love. Jane Austen has cleverly titled

After Willoughby conveys to Elinor his passionate emotions and subsequently his spontaneous actions after finding out about Marianne's illness, Elinor reflects on Willoughby's situation in an almost comically composed way when juxtaposed with his impassioned language. The sentences in this paragraph are notably long so as to underscore Elinor's propensity towards taking the time to examine all facets of a situation before she acts, or her ability to use her reasoning to navigate social situations. Elinor muses about how Willoughby has been shaped by society into an "extravagant and vain" individual, which is important because Willoughby's "naturally open and honest" disposition is mirrored in Marianne, showing that the lack of emotional control

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin was a moralistic novel depicting the two main forms of attitudes at that time; the neo -classics and the romantics. The period in which it was written, nineteenth century England, was laden with social etiquette and customs imposed on people of that time; and thus the characters of Jane Austin's novels. The novels' two main protagonists; Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, exemplify the Neo classical era and the romantic era, respectfully. Jane Austin instils Neo-classic and romantic ideals in Elinor and Marianne as to present a view of each attitude and to further enhance the discrepancies of social nineteenths century England.

Sense and Sensibility was first published in 1811, by Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility represents the neoclassical, dualistic moral world where values and exclusion values will ultimately be successful in a painful, romantic feeling. Not only that, he was making serious cynicisms of society's eighteenth centuries in which the aristocrats were praised and indirectly influencing young people's minds, not the love of love but to betray it just for Wealth. In the novel, Lucy and Willoughby symbolize this kind of people of society

Jane Austen's groundbreaking novel Sense and Sensibility is a relationship-driven account of female protagonists. Sense and Sensibility shares much in common with other novels by and about women. Themes like autonomy versus independence and the role of women in a patriarchal society are explored in Sense and Sensibility. Using two sisters to symbolize the different directions the female spirit can be pulled, Austen shows the variable ways women respond to political, social, and economic oppression. The women of Sense and Sensibility are both trapped by, and breaking free from, the conventions of marriage and motherhood. Marriage and motherhood are portrayed ironically as the natural course of women's lives, but also as the chain that prevents their self-fulfillment. The social norm of patrilineal inheritance leaves Elinore and Marianne Dashwood, and their mother, penniless and dependent on distant male family members. Marriage and motherhood are restrictive roles for women, and yet Austen never provides a satisfactory alternative for Marianne. Marianne seems willing to break free from patriarchal social norms, but she ends up being a slave to heterosexual romance. The message in Sense and Sensibility ends up being rather bleak: women remain socially, economically, and politically oppressed because they cannot envision or enact suitable independent alternatives.

Jane Austen 's Sense and Sensibility is often read as two sisters who represent either sense or sensibility. In Ang Lee 's cinematic adaptation of the book, there is obvious preference to the value of emotions, of the heart, and this approach lends an interpretation of what is otherwise left unanswered in the book. From the onset of Sense and Sensibility, Elinor is characterized by her “coolness of judgment” and her overall ability to use her sense to the benefit of the Dashwoods. (44) Marianne on the other hand is characterized by her sensibility for “her sorrows, her joys ,could have no moderation.”(44) In many ways the movie attempts to bring what is on the inside to the outside. The movie does make a preference towards the heart has a significant effect on the cinematic depictions of the sisters but also of other characters. The preference of the heart allows for deeper constructs of the characters Margaret and Colonel Brandon. The cinematic approach also allows for concrete demonstrations of Marriane 's growing affection to Colonel Brandon as well as a concrete show of Elinor 's interior emotions.

Jane Austen is an English romantic novelist whose books emphasize the significance of strong sibling relationships. Her novel Sense and Sensibility tells the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who experience great love and lost. Throughout the novel, Elinor and Marianne encounter challenges, which alters each of them, and these individu18al changes transform their sisterhood. Elinor and Marianne are close in age and are both educated, but their difference in character causes opposition. Elinor is sensible and this causes her to be selfless, practical, sensible, and responsible, while Marianne’s indulgence in her sentiments causes her to be selfish, and rude. Yet, as the novel continues the dynamic of their relationship improves. In this paper, I will argue that the tension between Marianne and Elinor emerges because of differences in their personality. However, as the novel progresses the tension between the two heroines decrease because Marianne becomes more like Elinor.