Description Of Sense And Sensibility By Jane Austen

Description Jane Austen is a well known author that has created quite a name for herself. She has written many books, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice being a couple. She wrote with a wit about her that is not very hard to see. She wrote with such precision that the paragraphs flow and coincide together. She devices great character development that they seem to fit so well inside their world. She is known as a classic writing because of these things: the precision writing, the character development, and her wit that peaks through.

Interpretation

In nineteenth century England, home life was quite different but also similar to this time period. In Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen she shows this time period beautifully. She

They were worried about it and searching for it just like most people do today. The characters in Sense and Sensibility show this by the way they got married. Most women needed the money desperately to survive so they would marry rich and vice versa. In the book, Mr. Willoughby marries Miss Grey for here money after he is disinherited by his aunt. People today also do this in which they marry someone because of the money they possess. Austen shows this in this passage of Sense and Sensibility, where Willoughby is talking to Elinor about his letter where he breaks up with Marianne. “My affection for Marianne, my thorough conviction of her attachment to me—it was all insufficient to outweigh that dread of poverty, or get the better of those false ideas of the necessity of riches, which I was naturally inclined to feel, and expensive society had increased”(Austen

They were not slaves or useless but they were more of a property and responsibility for men then an actual productive person to them. In Sense and Sensibility some of the women characters are treated as such, like when Mr. Dashwood dies at the very beginning the step-son must help them a little before he can get rid of them. In Sense and Sensibility this is shown well in this part, where Mr. Dashwood talks about how he gained the Norland estate even though his sisters needed it more. “To him therefore the succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, independent of what might arise to them from their father's inheriting that property, could be but small”(Austen 3). The class system in this time period is very similar to our time. They both have a lower, middle, and upper class system in place. We both judge and see people in the terms of their class and use this daily in our thoughts of others. In the book a great representation is the knowledge of the difference between the Middleton’s and the Dashwood’s. This is shown also with Colonel Brandon and his placement in the class system and the way he helps those around