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Novel Report of Sense and Sensibility
Sense and sensibility is a novel written by Jane Austen that was first
published in 1811.She was an English novelist whose works of romantic fictions,and earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, In her short and glorious life, she wrote about dozens of famous novels, such as sense and sensibility, pride and prejudice, Mansfield park, Emma and so on.When I was in primary school, I had once read the Chinese version of pride and prejudice, through this novel, I have a first understanding of Jane Austen’s vision of love, and realize the life of British girl in that period, but not deep,after reading more and wathed every movieadapted by herworks, I totally love her.
Sense and Sensibility is The story about two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood (Elinor represents the \"sense\" and Marianne represents the\"sensibility\") along with their mother and younger sister Margaret, they are left impoverished after the death of their father, and the family is forced to move to a country cottage.Elinor forms an attachment to the gentle Edward Ferrars, unaware that he is already secretly engaged.Edward is a quiet, unauming young man who does not aspire to be the \"fine figure in the world\"which his mother and sister wished him to be.Edward\'s fortune is dependent on the will of his mother.Elinor knows that she would not like her son to marry a woman of as a low rank as she is and does not allow herself to hope for marriage.
Mrs.Jennings, a good-humored widow, thinks that Brandon is in love with Marianne and teases them both about it.Marianne dislikes him in fact.in the countryside, Marianne falls and breaks her ankle.Willoughby, a dashing and handsome man, carries her back to Barton Cottage.Willoughby begins to visit Marianne every day and they become very close.Elinor overhears him calling Marianne by her first name and believes that they may be secretly engaged.Willoughby leaves abruptly one day telling the Dashwoods that he must go to London and will not return for a year.His departure greatly upsets Marianne.
Edward comes to stay at Barton Cottage near one day.However he seems unhappy and is distant towards Elinor, and she fears that he no longer has any feelings for her.Ann and Lucy , cousins of Lady Middleton, come to visit.soon.However, Lucy then reveals to Elinor that she (Lucy) has been secretly engaged to Edward for four years..Elinor is overcome with grief, but she keeps the information from her family as a promise to Lucy.
Elinor and Marianne spend the winter at Mrs.Jennings\' home in London.Marianne writes to Willoughby, but her letters are unanswered.They meet Willoughby at a party, but he is cold and formal with them.He then sends
Marianne a letter in which he denies ever having loved her and telling her that he is engaged to a Mi Grey, a very wealthy woman .Brandon reveals to Elinor that Willoughby seduced his foster daughter Mi Williams and abandoned her when she became pregnant.Later, Mrs.Jennings tells Elinor that Edward’mother has discovered Edward and Lucy\'s engagement.Edward refuses to end the
engagement and his mother, furious because of Lucy\'s poverty, disinherits him.
Marianne becomes very ill after a walk in the rain during which she was wallowing in misery because of Willoughby, andBrandon goes to get Mrs.Dashwood.Meanwhile,he reveals his love for Marianne to Mrs.Dashwood..Mrs.Dashwood wishes for Marianne to marry him too, but Elinor perceives that Marianne still has a lack of regard for him.They learn that Mr.Ferrars has
married Lucy.Mrs.Dashwood realizes how strong Elinor\'s feelings for Edward are and is sorry that she did not pay more attention to her unhappine.However, the next day Edward arrives and reveals that it was his brother who married Lucy.He says that he was trapped in his engagement with Lucy, \"a woman he had long since ceased to love,\" but that she had broken the engagement to marry the now wealthy Robert.Edward asks Elinor to marry him, and she agrees.Over the next two years, Mrs.Dashwood, Marianne matures and after growing to love brandonl, decides to marry Brandon.They marry and live close to Elinor and Edward.
The plot revolves around a contrast between Elinor\'s sense and Marianne\'s emotionalism; Yet Austen\'s treatment of the two sisters is complex and
multi-faceted.The ending does, however, neatly join the themes of sense and sensibility though having the sensible sister marry her true love after long,
romantic obstacles to their union, and the emotional sister find happine with a man she did not initially love, but who was an eminently sensible choice of a husband.a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure。The most remarkable characteristic of Jane Austen as a novelist is her recognition of the limits of her knowledge of life and her determination never to go beyond these limits in her books.She describes her own cla, in the part of the country with which she was acquainted; and both the types of character and the events are such as she knew from first-hand observation and experience.
