Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Date Submitted: 10/26/2003 05:16:53
Category: / Literature / World Literature
Length: 7 pages (1855 words)
Category: / Literature / World Literature
Length: 7 pages (1855 words)
In Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility the title is a metaphor for the two main characters, Elinor and Marianne. Elinor represents sense and Marianne represents sensibility. The original version of this novel was titled Elinor and Marianne and has been known to be the first novel that Austen worked on, which is also her first published text. It was originally a series of letters between the two sisters, but evolved to become the novel …
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…iginal story, even if they are not explicitly in the novel as filmed.
Works Cited
Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980
Bates, Rheanna. "About Sense and Sensibility." Classic Notes by GradeSaver. May 2001.
GradeSaver. 27 February 2002. http://gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/sense/about.html.
Ray, Joan Klingel. "Austen's Sense and Sensibility." Explicator Vol 60 (1) (Fall 2001): 15.
Sense and Sensibility. Dir. Ang Lee. Perf. Emma Thompson,
Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, and
Hugh Grant. Columbia/Tristar Studios, 1995.
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