Name: Jinal B. ParmarRoll no.: 13

M. A. Semester – 2Paper no.: 5 – The Romantic Literature

Unit: 3 – Sense and SensibilityYear: 2013 – 2014

Submitted to: Department of English Smt. S. B. Gardi

M. K. Bhavnagar University

Gender Stereotypes in Sense and Sensibility

Name: Jinal B. ParmarRoll no.: 13

M. A. Semester – 2Paper no.: 5 – The Romantic

LiteratureUnit: 3 – Sense and Sensibility

Year: 2013 – 2014Submitted to: Department of

English Smt. S. B. Gardi

M. K. Bhavnagar University

Jane Austen Born – 16 Dec. 1775 English Novelist keen grasp of the

traditional female role of the late 18thand early 19th century

Marriage and Love theme

Pride and prejudice Emma Sense and Sensibility

About novel:

• Novel divided in to three volumes

• Story of Dashwood sisters

• Novel main focus on the lives of Elinor and Marianne

• Theme of marriage

Main Female Characters:

Elinor Dashwood

Marianne Dashwood

Main Male Characters:

Colonel Brandon

John Willoughby

Edward Ferrars

Gender Stereotypes in Sense and Sensibility:

Austen has presented society in which she lived

Fictional reconstructions of patriarchal gender conceptions

The novel Sense and Sensibility is a very admirable example of the situation in which the societies went through in the 19th century.

In Sense and Sensibility that the most aggressively and successfully does so “gender dissonance” of a masculinized Elinor and a feminized Edward amounts to a conscious reconstuction of 18th century gender stereotype.

This novel deals with some of the gender issues of the Austen’s time

Elinor's intellectualism and civic-mindedness appropriate traditionally masculine virtues, just as Edward's shy, retiring domesticity appropriates feminine ones.

Even the passionately romantic and feminine Marianne rebels against the female decorums of the day in behavior virtually indistinguishable from Willoughby's.

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Austen’s life closely parallels that of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice.  Austen begins the novel with the line, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”   This statement reflects the opinion of the time that a woman had to be married or else she had no social standing.  Austen has presented men and women in her many of the novel which present her style of writing.

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