paper no-5 the romantic literature "gender stereotypes in sense and sensibility
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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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