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The Survey and Analysis of Sense and Sensibility
Once I was not interested in this kind of famous but old works.Perhaps it is because I think the story happened in a time which is very far from me and I can‟t read it calmly.But for an excellent actor named Alan Rickman I would not read this work at all.Sense and Sensibility was screened in 1995.I knew it after I began to worship Alan Rickman.He had a role, Colonel Brandon.Then I decided to watch this movie for him.What surprised me that I totally fell in love with the story and characters in it and I read the work.Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen„s first work.After reading it I feel it is full of intelligence and emotions, and gives a substantial feeling mind, like Jane Austen‟s other works or herself more.Sense and Sensibility is filled with spice and humor.It twists and turns of two sisters‟ complex love story as the main line to expre the relationship between sense and sensibility, and in many cases, the reason should be more than emotional claims.In Jane Austen's day, praise of the emotional content was the mainstream literature, and many people think that no restraint of strong feelings is the best character performance, and neglect whether such feelings will bring their owns or their family members pain or not.If you want to restraint or hidden it, that is wrong.But Jane expreed a different opinion through the two sisters‟ stories.It can be seen from the book.She thought sincerity and warmth are important and valuable, but still need to adjust and control with reason.After all, emotion is perceptual;any unreasonable development may bring much unneceary suffering to both themselves and their family members.Only if a rational mind and thinking coexist with it, such damage can be reduced to the minimum.And there is no doubt that it is profitable to everyone.Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the eential theme: the neceity of finding a workable middle ground between paion and reason.The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne.Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compaion.Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she “loves him tenderly,” she finds him disappointing as a poible lover for her sister.Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr.Willoughby, a new neighbor.So swept away by paion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous.Then Willoughby abandons her;meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart.Jane Austen has often been considered a woman who led a narrow, inhibited life and who rarely traveled.These aertions are far from the truth.Jane Austen traveled more than most women of her time and was quite involved in the lives of her brothers,so much that it often interfered with her writing.Like most writers, Jane drew on her experiences and her dreams for the future and incorporated them into her writing.Her characters reflect the people around her;the main characters reflect parts of herself.In Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park, Elinor Dashwood, Elizabeth Bennet, and Fanny Price all reflect aspects of Jane Austen and dreams she had that were never fulfilled.Jane can also be considered the backbone of her family.After she dies, the family is not as close as they were during her lifetime.Jane became very close with two of her nieces, Fanny Austen and Anna Austen.She counseled them on men and marriage when they reached the age of choosing a suitor.She often helped with delivering her sister-in-law's babies.During her thirties, she lived with her brother Frank for several weeks.She cooked the meals for his family and cared for his children while his wife was confined to her bed.After several weeks of such a life, she felt she needed a break and solitude, but she continued to help her brother and his family until her services were no longer needed.Like the character she creates in Elinor, she sticks by her family and helps them when they need her.Austen's life closely parallels that of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice.Austen begins the novel with the line, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in poeion of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”.This statement reflects the opinion of the time that a woman had to be married or else she had no social standing.Just as Elizabeth and her sisters feel immense preure to get married and procure a good match, so too did Jane.Until she was twenty-five she still retained a small spark of hope that she would one day marry and have children.In Jane Austen‟s Sense and Sensibility there is a theme that runs along with males in the novel.The first born sons are forced to deal with the promotions and abilities that come along with the laws of primogeniture, yet even with all they get they do not lead an altogether happy life.The men that are first-born are in fact too swayed by the power and obligation that comes with their estates.In the novel the first sons are viewed in a negative light, yet the second-born sons have le responsibility to be what society wants them to be and are allowed to be his own.Although Edward Ferrars, is a firstborn, his mother disinherits him because of his lack of focus and ability to be all she wants him to be;as John Dashwood remarks Robert will now to all intents and purposes be considered as the eldest son.We know that Colonel Brandon is a second son because he has an older brother who married his old sweetheart, Eliza, many years before the novel's plot begins.And whereas these characters are the heroes of the novel, all the eldest sons are cast in a negative light, including John Dashwood, Robert Ferrars, and Colonel Brandon's older brother.In Austen's day, the eldest sons were the ones who inherited all the family property according to the laws of male primogeniture.However, in spite of these inheritance laws, it is the second sons who ultimately find happine in the novel;thus they make content lives for themselves despite societal and financial constraints.This conflict starts at the beginning of the novel, but to his son and his son‟s son with John Dashwood‟s acquisition of the Norland estate.After John receives the inheritance and the estate, he is from then on viewed in a negative manner.He is a weak man and isconstantly influenced by his petty, greedy and mean wife.He was not an ill-disposed young man, unle to be rather coldhearted and rather selfish to be ill disposed.Had he married a more amiable woman, he might have been more respectable than he was: he might even have been made amiable himself.But Mrs.John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself: more narrow-minded and selfish.His choice of wife, a systematic marriage for money and social stature affects his ability to be viewed as a decent character and he is viewed as a whole with his wife, which degrades him even more so.As far as the Ferrars Brothers are concerned, Edward is the first-born son who seemed to be a second Willoughby but loses his position when he refuses to marry Lucy Steele a rich heire and wanting to in turn marry Elinor.Mr.Ferrars has suffered from his family;he has been entirely cast off by them for persevering in his engagement with a very deserving young woman.All of Jane's female characters end up happily married, a state Jane herself never felt.A woman was defined in terms of her husband;if she did not marry, she had nothing.Jane's aunt traveled to India in order to find a husband.Well into her twenties, Jane still had dreams of getting married.When she was twenty-five, Harris Bigg, a brother of her good friends, proposed marriage to Jane.At first she accepted: she would become mistre of a large estate, and “be able to ensure the comfort of her parents to the end of their days”.Most importantly, she would have children and raise a family of her own.The next day, however, Jane reneged the proposal.She did not love him and did not want a “marriage based on nothing but money”.After this proposal, Jane gave up all hopes of ever having a family of her own.Instead, she fulfilled her dreams through her characters and found “paion” through them.All her characters marry for love.They make Jane's dreams become a reality within her imagination.Sense and Sensibility created a series of characters and each has unique personality.However, most of the readers want to focus on are Dashwood family‟s two sisters.Elinor is Dashwood family's eldest daughter, an affectionate girl who is ever intellectual.From the beginning, the story showed her more thoughtful and rational mind than her mother and sister.Elinor worked carefully, thoughtfully, and intelligently.Either his love, Edward or hate, Lucy, she can treat them with respect.Besides, when people were discuing, whether Elinor like the topic or not, she wouldn‟t show much more curiosities or make others think she was boring.She could always maintain a certain degree of calm and thinking mind.Anything, Elinor always drew the line in anything.In addition, she was a kind girl, good at finding others advantages, and considerate to others.For Mrs.Jennings, though her behavior proved that she is stupid, but Elinor always talked about her enthusiasm, generosity and justice in front of her friends and sister.For Mrs.Jennings having a comfortable time in her home without Marianne‟s sarcasm and indifference and made Marianne not hurt by doing some overacting things, Elinor received the invitation and went with her sister even if she did this unwillingly.In my view, Elinor is so sober and reserved that she refuses to expre her emotions even on her face and nearly loses her true love.When she knew the truth of Edward‟s engagement and Edward‟s love, she eventuallycouldn‟t help crying because she oppreed herself so long.All above showed Elinor‟s rational mind, but it doesn‟t mean she is lack of emotion.On the contrary, as her sister, Elinor has an emotional heart, but she is more adept at controlling this emotion.No matter what happened in Edward‟s case have been changed, Elinor didn‟t change her heart.She did not abandon him because of Edward's untalkativity, dull depreion, and charges from everyone.She liked his integrity, honesty, loyalty, generosity and felt unfair to his treatment at home and thought about him anytime to try her best to make his situation better.Even if she heard the news of Edward‟s engagement, Elinor was still in love with him.Even after hearing that she was trying to cover up, it was not difficult to see the news damaged her much.It can be seen that her affection to Edward is strong, faithful, realistic, loyal and eternal.This proves that Elinor is not only rational, but also has an emotional heart.And there is a clear and rational mind to remind her to restrict unneceary emotional impulse.Sense, kindne, wittine are her proper charms.Comparing with Elinor‟s sense, her sister Marianne is much more emotional.She is bright, but overly sentimental.On the contrary, Marianne is too emotional, always follows her feelings and never covers them.This is a kind of innocent but without thought it can make a person naive and ruined like Marianne.She committed suicide.After trying to killing herself, Marianne realized what true love was and learnt to be rational.Marianne always holds a romantic fantasy in treating love and dreamt to marry an “outstanding character, charming manners” man.She always seeks to deal with feelings of sensation, and romance.She is direct and clear in expreing feelings so that many times Mrs.Jennings made fun of her.Different from Elinor, Marian behaved in society is similar to her feelings of view.She treated people she liked warmly but indifferently and rudely to people shi didn‟t like and gave them a cold face.Perhaps this feeling was the feeling of that time's most respected concept, but Jane accounted for its unseemline fully through Marian.A real contrast can be seen between the two women when Marianne comes to see Elinor in her bedroom one night.It is the same evening in which Edward has read to the family upon Marianne's incistant urging.Edward lacks the emotion that Marianne thrives on while reading to the women and she has no qualms about sharing this with him.When talking to her sister, Marianne states that she finds Edward to be an “amiable” man, but lacking a certain spark.When Elinor says that his disposition suits her just fine, Marianne is appalled.Her immediate reaction is one of question.Would Elinor rather love a dull, amiable man or the kind of man she would choose? Marianne would settle for no le than a prince on a white stallion, ready to rescue her from the confines of her little cottage.Her man must poe “spirit, wit, and feeling.” Marianne was finally abandoned by Willoughby, fell deep in their emotional outlook of the dominant lower into the aby of suffering, and could not get away.She almost lost her life, and brought pain to her friends and family.This is the disadvantage of overacting emotion.Except for Marianne‟s “more sensibility, le sense”, she is a very great girl.Marianne is wise, fair, loves reading and thoughtful.Marianne loves her mother and sister very much.No matter she was too emotional atfirst, or learnt to be rational at last, Marianne is not willing to hurt her friends and families especially.In addition, she made her effort to make up the damage brought by her sensibility.As the story said, once Marianne realized she was wrong, she would do anything to make up it.She is really an excellent girl, isn‟t she?
In the male role, Edward is the ideal type of women but not brave enough.Edward Ferrars, the object of Elinor's affection is quoted as saying Mi Dashwoods friendship the most important of his life.This is a considerable compliment coming from a man as highly esteemed as Mr.Ferrars.Elinor is viewed by her mother and her two sisters as a saving grace, someone to depend on.To a certain extent this is true, but Elinor also has problems and she doesn't quite know how to let people know about them.Even when Lucy Steele confides in Elinor that she has been secretly engaged to Edward for four years, she tells no one, and bears the burden of a broken heart on her own.At the outset he controlled his affection to Elinor and behaved as a gentleman.He was not rude but always hesitant.It was his attitude that made Elinor blowing hot and cold and didn‟t believe they would be together.I think Colonel Brandon is a complex with both sense and sensibility even though he has also done a choice between reason and emotion.But I still think he is the only one of several main characters who puts the emotion to the first place.Although he exited on his own initiative when he knew the relationship between Marianne and Willoughby, after all his original intention is that he hopes Marianne can be happy.As for Willoughby, a playboy, I only say I‟m sorry.His eence is not bad, and I believe he really loves Marianne, but not enough, in other words, he loves money more, or just himself.The topic of this paper is to distinguish the differences between sense and sensibility.Represented in Jane Austin's novel by two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, the disposition of the two girls can be seen quite vividly.The two girls are accompanied by a mother, and many other well developed characters.One character questionable to the theme of the story is the youngest sister Margaret.Her personality if described would be more like that of her sister Marianne.People can poe rich emotion, but not emotional.Jane thought taking heed in dealing with a matter and inner urge should be balanced.She showed respect to “Money can buy an elegant life”, but the feelings between people are much more important.Being and individual and having the ability to do so is a prevalent theme in this novel.It applies the men who do not have to preure and obligation to laws of primogeniture who can choose their own path.It also applies to the women who are viewed by society as poor but in fact will become rich because they do not have to bow down to society‟s rules and systems.Despite the way people dealt with life in that time had to constrict to these rules to feel succeful yet, the most succeful characters in the novel are the ones who were brave enough to break away from the conformity.How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the leons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel.Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingne to consider theworld well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired;a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure.Experienced the baptism of life and death, Marianne found the balance point of sense and sensibility.After a long period of repreion, Elinor‟s emotions burst out and push the fight of sense and sensibility in her heart to the ultimate.Without dreams, without sentiments, what do we have sense for?
“Sense prevails sensibility, reality exceeds dream”, this is still an inconclusive war.You and me can find ourselves point according to our characters.As Shakespeare said, the course of true love never did run smooth.Of course, the world can not be without love, but not only love.
