The Romantic Literatue

Feminism in Sense and Sensibility:

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Name: Mital M. Raval

Roll No: 19

M.A. SEM: 

Batch Year: 2016 – 2018

Enrollment No: 2069108420170026

Email id: ravalmital5292@gmail.com

Paper Name: Romantic Literature

Assignment Topic: Feminism in Sense and sensibility

Submitted to: smt s. b. Garadi
                      Department of english
                      M. K. bhavnager

                            

Introduction of author:

             Jane Austen was born in 16 December 1775 and died in 18 July 1817. She was an English novelist and also feminist writer known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18^th century. Austen’s plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favorable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novel of sensibility of the second half of the 18^th century and part of the transition to 19^th century literary realism.

           Jane Austen’s novel from 1995 to 2005 interplay the feminist issues that become the mainstream issue highlight. Jane Austen has very popular and innovative writer. She has portrayed very well feminist issues in her novel. Jane Austen’s novel in that time they revealed only the most “distant recognition of the feeling” and awareness of the “passion’’. In her work to Jane say that to female has to marginalization in society and we see that to her five best novel to woman has situation bad and face to every time in give money, sacrifices, love and man neglected to women. Jane Austen best six novels are like that,

1)    Sense and Sensibility

2)    Persuasion

3)    Emma

4)    Mansfield park

5)    Pride and Prejudice

6)    Northanger Abbey

              Sense and Sensibility is novel by Jane Austen published in 1811. It was published anonymously; by A Lady appears on the cover page where the author’s name might have been. It tells the story of the Deshwood sister Elinor and Marianne, both of age to their new home with their widowed mother, a meager cottage on the property of a distant relative, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.

Feminist Movement:

                            

          Feminism is a rage of political movements, ideologies and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish and achieve political, economic, personal, and social rights for women. This includes for women in education and employment.

      Feminism is a recognized movement in the 18^th century and 19^th century. Female are marginalized in society. During that time many writer are writing for woman. In which most of female writer write for woman, hiding their name and also write with the pan name or take some male name because of stereotype behaviors of society and also men.

       Feminist movement is divided in to three waves. Each waves dealt with different aspects of the same feminist issues.

(1)The first wave comprised women’s suffrage movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth century’s, promoting women’s right to vote.

(2) The second wave was associated with the ideas and action of the women’s liberation movement beginning in the 1960s. The second wave campaigned for legal and social equality for women’s.

(3) The third wave is a continuation of, and a reaction to, the perceived failures of second wave – feminism, being in the 1990s.

Some feminist writer:

-Mary Wollstonecraft

- Amelia Bloomer

- Simone De Beauvoir

- Alice Paul

- Lucy Stone

- Elizabeth Stanton

- Susan B. Anthony           etc…..

Jane Austen as Feminist:

                              

 

          Jane Austen was very creative minder and intellectual writer. She and her sister both are write together. She has very popular and innovative writer to portray feminist issues in all her novel. In her all novel female has struggle towards male dominated society. In her work we see that female has marginalized in society. In her five famous novels we see that women have very badly in condition, sacrifices love and man neglected to woman. In her novel “Sense and Sensibility” three sister, Elinor, Marianne and Margret they are mature, but as female face social problem in this novel. Jane Austen had woman spectator expands not only as feminist, female and feminine, she portrayed to woman in society. So, now Jane has feminist author and she wrote to woman identities in this novel “Sense and Sensibility” and she applies to feminist approach in the novel.

Feminism in Sense and sensibility:

              In this novel we see much female character like fanny, Mrs. Dashwood, Mrs., Middleton, Mrs. Jennings, Mrs. Farra's and three Dashwood sisters Elinor, Marianne and Margret. In these following female character three Deshwood sisters is at the center of the novel. And they become feminist heroin of this novel. For the point of view of feminism three women character Elinor, Marianne and Margret are very important character.


Elinor: 

      Elinor is different from other two sisters. Her nature is very different from Marianne and also mature to two other sisters. She has very common understanding rather than emotion. She has to undergo characters evolutions. She is central protagonist of the novel. She is having rationality, intellectuality and practical one. She is stand for sense, and she has much more common sense than her mother even Marianne in some places. Elinor has a good head on her shoulders, but she is also a bit scared of love. She is afraid of attachment and being in too deep. Even if this thing she allows herself to fall in love with her brother-in-low Edward. Elsinore’s emotions breakdowns when Edward and Lucy’s engagement is revealed. She does not show it openly, like Marianne does, and that’s no doubt a more mature reaction than Marianne’s. Marianne’s loss of Willoughby almost leads to her death. Elinor would never allow herself to do that.  But in a way, she tries to hide her affection for Edward and stuff it down in herself so deep that it could scar her heart.

 Marianne: 

                                 

                         

                 Marianne is stand for sensibility. She has very emotion and youngest to Dashwood sister. Marianne loves too freely. She has abundant receptivity and intuition when it comes to other peoples feeling and she is right that Willoughby loved her truly. But she allows herself to sink too deeply into her emotions and allows them to rules her. As a musician having her feeling so easily accessible allows her to turn in tremendous performances. But it isn’t a healthy way to live.

Margret:
 

                       

          Margret is mere complement in novel and she is younger two other sister, an outspoken, boyish character. Though whom the protests against patriarchal arrangements of society are expressed. She is shown climbing a tree house both in Norland and Barton. She uses telescope and may be to Jane style to woman are free in society and also that to child girl is free one.

              Sense and Sensibility tells the story of the women of Deshwood family, who because of the death of the family patriarch were forced to resign their land and possessions to John Dashwood, the only son of Mr. Dashwood’s first marriage. The women were thus obliged to change their residence and to drastically limit their spending. The story focuses on the lives of Elinor, the elder sister and Marianne, the middle one, whilst they adapt to a new way of life discover love and suffer the restrictions imposed on the female gender by the society in which they lived.

    “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman”

-         Simone De Beauvoir

            This statement is very much reflected in Sense and Sensibility. It would be a compact of convenience, and the world would be satisfied. It would be no marriage at all, but that would be nothing. It would seem only a commercial exchange. In which each wished to be benefited at the expense of the other. This quotation may be reflected in this sentimental story need to be studied. Tellingly, this novel written in 1811 under the pseudonym of “a Lady”, offers its readers a clear insight at women’s conditions through the predicaments of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, while both being alienated from their loves.

               In Sense and Sensibility, men repeatedly acknowledge or evince their powerlessness. Indeed, Mrs. Ferrars is at the Origin of Edward’s “fettered inclination” and powerlessness. Lucy has equally constrained him into a loveless engagement and Fanny succeeds in forcing her husband to follow her views. The empowerment of these virile females with financial agency is fraught with significance as it points to the failures of manhood in the novel. Even if the prosperity of this wicked female character may appear irritating, they come to epitomize Austen’s discomfort with female submission. 

       Jane Austen made sure her novel featured a third Dashwood sister. Margaret, to stay away from Manichean representations and artificial forms. Her role is therefore to reveal what really goes on beneath the veneer of society by expressing what propriety and good manners would rather keeps silent. She therefore plays a role in incompletely revealing the identity of Elinor’s lover to Mrs. Jennings or pointing at Marianne’s growing intimacy with Willoughby to Elinor, by ironically calling him “Marianne’s Preserve”.

      In the film also, Margaret’s role is fore grounded, though for different reason. Her character is one of a tomboy playing with swords and retreating to a fantasy world full of pirates in tree-houses. Her role is double as she symbolizes the freedom women could not aspire to for being cramped by societal conventions, while, at the same time, she was able to bridge the cultural gap for modern audiences not acquainted with regency mores by asking the right questions.

      None of her two heroines marry for money as society would have liked them to, but they both marry into respectability in that the men they choose as husbands are not the wealthiest but certainly the worthiest one: both Colonel Brandon and Edward Ferrars fit the part as they embody the village community’s traditional. Leaders, namely the squire and the person.

    Even if, in the end Marianne may have married the man she considered all first stance old enough to be her father. She marries in to sense, offering the novel and the readers a contrived resolution inherent in the genre of romance, a denouement Jane Austen refused to tie herself. When she broke her own marriage engagement even though she knows it meant a financial dependency on others and a lack of affirmed social person.

    However, by showing the artificiality of too much sensibility as Marianne alienates herself from society and from her family, Jane Austen leaves a potent message to her readers: sense should be understood as a variant of sense evoking a vision of life in which both emotion and reflection are mutually supportive. In which a social system of values should also be more supportive for women. Therefore, Marianne is not allowed to die but she is symbolically rescued by Colonel Brandon portrayed as a saviors in the film, from her desire to flee society’s rule. AS a proof of this is the Framed structure of the novel which starts and ends with two patriarchal institutions: the transmission of property and Marriage, which both ensure the continuity of society, though they highly constrained at the same time the fate of women.

Conclusion:

             Thus in this novel we can see that woman are challenges to men and also men reject to her love and it may be that Jane Austen ideas. My argument on the identification of woman spectatorship of her characters influenced by my own identification as a woman who can early define herself as female and feminist though not always feminine. So, here we can see that Jane Austen does not create a woman’s world. She presents the real world, in which the limits on the conversation and interests of the speakers.



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