Sense And Sensibility

Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security’. Jane Austen’s sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor’s character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate nature in the interests of survival. Jane Austen here sets social snobbery against summer picnics; social rejection against the passion of real love. Her warm portrait of the relationship between two very different sisters contrasts with her precise observation of the vanity, selfishness and snobbery of their society.Чувство и чувствительность. Джейн Остин противопоставляет здесь социальный снобизм летним пикникам, социальное неприятие страсти настоящей любви. Ее теплый портрет отношений между двумя очень разными сестрами контрастирует с ее точным наблюдением за тщеславием, эгоизмом и снобизмом их общества.