Sense
and Sensibility by
Jane Austin (Questions
with Answers)
Irony
in Sense and Sensibility.
Irony
whether comic or tragic arises from
a contrast between appearence and reality
or between what we expect and what actually
happens or what is said and what is
really intended to be said and so on.
These all aspects of irony can be found
in the novel Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austin.
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Here,
Jane Austin has used irony
to bring out the inward consciousness
and hypocrisy of individuals
and society of that time.
Specially her irony directed
at individuals like Fanny
Dashwood. She is portrayed
as a scheming women driven
by avarice (greed for wealth).
She becomes able to make her
husband, John Dashwood, a
puppet. John Dashwood decides
to do those acts what have
been proposed by his wife,
Fanny. For instance, Fanny
convinces John Dashwood that
no monetary help needed to
be given at all to his step
mother and step sisters. Read
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Delineation
(portrayal) of women in Sense and
Sensibility.
In
the novel Austen is more successful
in her delineation of women than of
men. She is not only concerned with
outward consciousness of character but
also with a psychological portrayal
of character specially in women character.
One critic Louis Cazamian has given
the view that Ausitin's studies of women
are more searching and more life like
those of men. Read
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Central
Theme of Sense and Sensibility.
As
we go through the novel Sense and
Sensibility we can find that the
central theme of this novel is sense
prevailing over sensibility though both
are necessary in human life. Sense refers
to the reason, sanity, self- discipline
where as sensibility refers to the emotion,
passionate, irrational etc. Read
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Comparative
study of protagonists in Sense and
Sensibility and The Scarlet
Letter.
Jane
Austen's Sense and Sensibility
and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet
Letter both novels move around
the social and individual situations
of women's position. The depiction of
Austine's protoganist is contradictory
in comparison to the Hawthrone's in
the novel. Read
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