Sense and Sensibility

               Sense and Sensibility

                                                Jane Austen

            The novel sense and sensibility written by female writer Jane Austen. She is a realist who draws her materials from actual life, as she sees it. There is nothing fantastic or fanciful as far she depicts the social life of her time.  Jane Austen is very famous in social tendency. In the whole novel Austen uses marriage as a plot and theme of the novel.

                       The plot of Sense and Sensibility revolves around marriage. The novel begins with Elinor and Marianne a sunmarried but eligible young women and only concludes when both of them settle into marriages.Engagements, possible matches, and marriages are the main concern of most the novel’s characters and thesubject of much of their conversation. Thus, love is also of central importance to the novel, as Marianne andElinor fall in love and seek to marry the men they love.

However, marriage isn’t all about love in the world of Sense and Sensibility. In fact, it’s often more aboutwealth, uniting families, and gaining social standing. Moreover, it’s often families and parents who attempt todecide engagements as much as any individual husband or wife. Mrs. Ferrars, for example, cares only abouther sons marrying wealthy, upperclasswomen. She does not care whether Edward loves Lucy and cuts all tieswith him when she learns of their engagement. For her, the decision of whom her sons will marry is as muchhers as theirs, because their marriages are more about their whole family than about their own individualdesires.

Marriage is an important part of the functioning of the high society in which Austen’s characters live. Itdetermines who will inherit family fortunes and properties, and is of particular importance to women, whosefutures depend almost entirely on the prospects of the men they marry. Nonetheless, while people in the noveloften marry for reasons other than love (Willoughby, for example, marries Miss Grey just for money),Elinorand Marianne ultimately do marry for love. For Marianne, though, this means redefining her notion of loveand allowing herself to develop affections for Colonel Brandon, even though she did not love him at first sight.

The novel is full of many love stories and marriage. They make the plot aswell as bring romantic atmosphere.

The novel also shows the importance of love through a consideration of family. The bonds between Elinor,Marianne, Margaret, and their mother stand strong through all the difficulties they endure and at the end of thenovel they maintain a happily close relationship. Thus, while marriage may often be more a matter ofeconomics than of love, the examples of Marianne and Elinor show that it doesn’t necessarily have to be thisway. And, insofar as marriage brings families together and creates new family units, it can create strong andlasting bonds of familial love.

         

These are the lovers as they make this novel as a story of love as given below.

Elinor falls in love with Edward. Edward has true with Elinor because of that he marries with Elinor though hedisheritages from will. That’s why we can call marriage for love.

Therefore here we can also say that Love story between Marianne and Willoughby. All think that Marianne and Willoughby will marry but after some time Willoughby runs away to London and never comes back, later the news comes that he married with Sophia who has plenty of money.  

So at last we can say that this novel possesses many stories and sub-plot about Love as it is the central theme of the novel.

Elinor falls in love with Edward. Edward has true with Elinor because of  that he marries with Elinor though he disheritages from will. That’s why we can call marriage for love.