The Theme of Love v/s Money in Sense and Sensibility.

Name : Solanki Pratiksha M.
Paper : 5. The Romantic Literature.
Subject : Assignment
Title : The Theme of Love v/s Money in Sense and   Sensibility.
Roll No. 23
Sem :2
Submitted to : 
Smt. S.B.Gardi 
Dept. of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
pratikshasolanki068@gmail.com

The Theme of Love V/S Money in Sense and Sensibility. 


Introduction :

  

    Sense and Sensibility is a novel by the English novelist Jane Austen. This novel is published in 1811, and it was the first of Austen's novel to be published under the pseudonym " A Lady ". The whole story revolves around Elinor and Marianne, both are two daughters of  Mr. Dashwood by his second wife and they have a younger sister, Margaret and an older half-brother named Jahn. When Mr. Dashwood dies, the family estate passes to John. The whole novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home, a cottage and relatives property, where they experiances both romance and heartbreak.

" The contrast between the sister's characters is eventually resolved as they each find love and lasting happiness. "

Theme of  Love and Money :



      In this novel we see the theme of Love and Money. In sense and sensibility, Austen shown us dramatically different facts of this crazy little thing called Love. There is a also dual plot and dual Heroines. Elinor and Marianne each pursues her romance according to her temperaments and beliefs. Each has unhappy love affair at the starting and in this novel shows dual theme which is parallel connected with Love and Money. 

    
    This theme is also one of weakness in this novel. The theme of sensibility is illustrated in the love affair between Marianne and Willoughby and, The theme of sense begins with the relationship of Elinor and Edward. Marianne's reactions are always impassioned and Elinor is always sensible and restrained.

Marianne :

" Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Oh no !

It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken "

Willoughby.. Willoughby.. Willoughby.

In the higher spheres of society and in that era, Marriage was just like often contract. In sense and sensibility also especially revels that gentleman were also not always free to marry for their own decision and they are not free to take decision. Same thing happened in this novel where Edward Ferrars and John Willoughby also influenced may be positively or negatively as a result of financial concerns.

Marriage :

The theme of Marriage is equally related with the theme of Love v/s Money. Marianne and Elinor, marriage is not a choice but necessity and their need to marry expediently. A young man who may choose more freely when and whom they marry and Col. Brandon is even 35 and still unmarried, even for women who have money, and marriage is necessary to secure their social positions and ensure financial stability for the future.
Marriage for : Love
Marriage for : Money

" This is what I like ; that is what a young man ought to be. whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue. "

 The choice of each gentleman had large impacts upon the women around them and upon their families in general. In many scenes of the novel it shown how money effects on love.

• John Willoughby leaves Marianne for more money even though he loves her.

• Fanny Dashwood works hard to convince her husband that he owes his stepmother and step sisters nothing.. etc

Conclusion :

Thus.

we can say that in the novel Sense and Sensibility, where couples weren't married for Love , and sometimes fondness would develop but not true companionship or partnership or fellow feeling between couples. The Them of Love v/s Money is very well explained in this novel by Jane Austen.  

The unimportance of love when Money is in question and in that society and through lesser characters in the story.

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