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Form: Bookreport
Title book: Sense and Sensibility
Author: Jane Austen
There's no relevant information on the authors life. Except for the fact that Jane Austen lived almost in the same time as the one the story takes place in. As far as i know there are no autobiographical elemnts in "Sense and Sensibilty

1.Summary:

When Mr. Henry Dashwood dies, leaving all his money to his first wife's son John Dashwood , his second wife and her three daughters are left with no home and very little income. Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters Elinor and Marianne and Margaret are invited to stay with their distant relations, the Middletons, at Barton Park. Elinor is sad to leave their home at Norland because she has become closely attached to Edward Ferrars, the brother-in-law of her half-brother John. However, once at Barton Park, Elinor and Marianne discover many new acquaintances, including the retired officer and bachelor Colonel Brandon, and the gorgeous John Willoughby, who rescues Marianne after she twists her ankle running down the hills of Barton in the rain. Willoughby openly and courts Marianne, and together the two flaunt their attachment to one another, until Willoughby suddenly announces that he must depart for London on business, leaving Marianne lovesick and miserable. Meanwhile, Anne and Lucy Steele, two recently discovered relations of Lady Middleton 's mother, Mrs. Jennings , arrive at Barton Park as guests of the Middletons. Lucy ingratiates herself to Elinor and informs her that she (Lucy) has been secretly engaged to Mr. Ferrars for a whole year. Elinor initially assumes that Lucy is referring to Edward's younger brother, Robert ,but is shocked to learn that Lucy is actually referring to her own beloved Edward.
In the second part of Sense and Sensibility, Elinor and Marianne travel to London with Mrs. Jennings. Colonel Brandon informs Elinor that everyone in London is talking of an engagement between Willoughby and Marianne, though Marianne has not told her family of any such attachment. Marianne is anxious to be reunited with her beloved Willoughby, but when she sees him at a party in town, he cruelly denies her and then sends her a letter denying that he ever had feelings for her. Colonel Brandon tells Elinor of Willoughby's history , with Eliza, and Mrs. Jennings confirms that Willoughby, because he's left with no money, has become engaged to the wealthy Miss Grey .
In the third part of Sense and Sensibility, Lucy's older sister accidentaly reveals the news of Lucy's secret engagement to Edward Ferrars. Edward's mother is outraged at the information and disinherits him, promising his fortune to Robert instead. Meanwhile, the Dashwood sisters visit family friends at Cleveland on their way home from London. At Cleveland, Marianne develops a severe cold because she had taken long walks in the rain, and she falls deathly ill. Upon hearing of her illness, Willoughby comes to visit, attempting to explain his misconduct and seek forgiveness. Elinor pities him and shares his story with Marianne, who finally realizes that she behaved imprudently with Willoughby and could never have been happy with him anyway. Mrs. Dashwood and Colonel Brandon arrive at Cleveland and are happy to learn that Marianne has begun to recover.
When the Dashwoods return to Barton, they hear from their servant that Lucy Steele and Mr. Ferrars are engaged. They assume that he means Edward Ferrars. But Edward himself soon arrives and tells him they are wrong: it was Robert, not himself, whom the Lucy ultimately decided to marry. So Edward is finally free to propose to Elinor, and not long after, Marianne and Colonel Brandon become engaged as well. The couples live together at Delaford and remain in close touch with their mother and younger sister at Barton Cottage.

2. Describe the end of the story:

The story ends with a final word about all the characters' situation: Marianne Dashwood and colonel Brandon are happily maried and so are Elinor Dashwood and Edward Ferrars. Edward's brother Robert is also maried, with Lucy Steele. Both brothers make up with their mother, who at first was very mad with them for not marying a woman with money. Willoughby is married to Miss Grey, he doesn't love her. He's still got feelings for Marianne but he has no regrets that he married Miss Grey.

3. Time:

The story takes place in the bigging of the 19th centaury. You can tell that by looking at small details, because everyone uses carriage, because they don't have cars yet.
Between the beginning and the end of the story passes, roughly speaking 2 1/2 years, because at the end of the book the author tells you that after 2 years Marianne and the colonel met, they got married. And Marianne and the colonel meet when the Dashwoods arrive in barton Park, about a few months after their father dies.

4.Setting:

The story takes place in England, in and around Barton Park, at the cottage of the Dashwoods and Sir John's. But also in London. And at the estates of the Palmers (Cleveland, which is in Somerset) and colonel Brandon's. The beginning of the story takes place in Norland Park, in Sussex.

5. Characters+ 6. Relationships:

Elinor Dashwood: this is the maincharacter of the book. Elinor is nineteen years old. She was full of good sense. She always controls her feelings of sadness and anxiety and is quit calm. She's always speaking in a very formal way, also about her feelings. She keeps her feelings almost always for herself. She is very sweet to everyone. She's also got 2 other sisters, Marianne and Margaret. She is the oldest one. Her father died when she was nineteen, in Sussex, he left all his belongings to his son, so the Dashwoods didn't had much money. Later she lives with her sisters and her mother in a Barton Park. She also falls in love with Edward Ferrars, in the end they get married.
Marianne Dashwood: she is Elinor's sister, she is seventeen years old when her father dies. She's a warm and affectionate girl with very strong feelings. Her sensibility is much greater than her sister's. She always says what's on her mind, and talks very openly about her feelings. She falls in love with Willoughby, but he marries another girl. Later Marianne marries colonel Brandon. Marianne loves music and reading.
Edward Ferrars: he's very shy, and doesn't say much. When he was younger he got engaged to Lucy Steel, but later he falls in love with Elinor Dashwood. Wich he also marries at the end of the story. He always keeps his word. He wants to become a priest, and get settled, and live a nice and quiet life, but his mother wants him to become an important men, and to do something with politics, or in the army. And does she wants him to marry a whealthy girl.
Willoughby: he's the guy wich who Marianne falls in love with. He's very charming and good-looking. He has got the same interests as Marianne. Everyone thinks that they are engaged. Whillougby really loves Marianne, but in the past he met another girl, Eliza, who got pregnant with his child, he left that girl without a word, his cousin, who is ver rich and Whillougby depants on her, finds out about him and Eliza, and tells Whilloughby to marry Eliza and leeve Barton Park. He refuses, so she sends him to London, and she tells him she is going to give him nothing. So he's got no more money, but he still needs it, so he marries a whealthy girl.
Colonel Brandon: He's a good friend of Sir John. Colonel Brandon is always silent and serious. He is a good-looking and sensible man. Marianne and Margaret regarded him as an old bachelor, because he was thirthy-five. In the past he was going to be married with a young woman, named Eliza, but his father didn't agree with it, so Eliza and the colonel wanted to run away to Scothland and get married there, but a maid found out and told the father. He sent the colonel away to the army, and Eliza had to marry the colonel's brother. Eliza was very unhappy, so she ran away. Later she got a baby, who she also named Eliza. The colonel went looking for her when he came back, and found her in a debtor's prison and she was dying. Eliza wanted the colonel to take care for her baby. The colonel did, but at the end, she dissapears for a year, and when the colonel finds her, she is pregnant with Whilloughby's child. The colonel later marries Marianne Dashwood.
Lucy Steele: Mrs. Jennings' cousin she wants to become a friend of Elinor. Marianne and Elinor ain't very keen on her. Lucy is secretly engaged to Edward Ferrars. But at the end she marries Robert Ferrars, Edward's brother.once Edward is disinherited. Lucy is quite pretty and has a lively manner. De Dashwoods meet them while they are staying with Sir John. Lucy's always flattering everyone, she's a sly, selfish, and insecure young woman.
Mrs Jennings: she is Sir John's mother-in-law. She is a bit fat. She is a very wealthy woman. She's got a noisy behaviour. She likes to gossip and to arrange marriages. She spends all her time matching other people. But she is a really friendly woman. Elinor and Marriane don't really like her at the beginning, they think she's annoying because she wants to know everything about them, and she wants to match them. But later they change their mind, and think that she is very sweet. Mrs Jennings invites Marianne and Elinor and Lucy Steele to come with her and spend the winter in London. She has made it her "project" to get the 2 Dashwood sisters married as soon as possible.
Sir John Middleton: he is a rich relation of the Daswoods. He is very friendly. He offers the Dashwoods a cottage, at his estate in Devonshire, called Barton Park, for a very low rent.
John Dashwood: He is the son of Mr. Dashwood. He is the son of his first marriage. After his father's death, he gets all his father belongings and is a becomes a very rich man. Actually he is quite nice. he's married to Fanny Ferrars. He is very influenced by her, he does everything she tells him to do. He's got a son.At his wife Fanny's suggestion, he leaves his mother and sisters with very little money and remains largely unconcerned for their welfare.
Fanny Ferrars: She's a very annoying,snobbish, manipulativel woman. She only cares for herself and she doesn't care what hapens tro other people, she is very selfish, and quite evil.
Mrs. Ferrars: she is a very bosy and proud. She wants her sons to become famous in the army or with politics. She wants them all to be married to someone whealthy. She doesn't approove Edward's choice to marry Elinor, she hates Elinor. At first she decides to not give Edward anything if he marries Elinor, but at the end of the story she changes her mind, and give him some money.
Margaret Dashwood: The thirteen-year-old, good-humored youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood, Margaret shares her sister Marianne's romantic tendencies.
Robert Ferrars: A conceited coxcomb and the younger brother of Edward and Fanny. Robert inherits his mother's fortune after she disinherits Edward. Ironically, he ultimately marries Lucy Steele, even though it was Edward's engagement to this same woman that caused his mother to disinherit him
Mr. Thomas Palmer:Mrs. Palmer's gruff, unemotional husband.
Mrs. Charlotte Palmer: Mrs. Jennings' talkative and foolish daughter who invites the Dashwood sisters to stay at her home in Cleveland on their way from London to Barton.
Anne Steele: Lucy Steele's older, unmarried sister who accidentally reveals her sister's secret engagement to Edward Ferrars.
Miss Sophia Grey: The wealthy heiress whom Willoughby marries after abandoning Marianne.

7. Theme:

The story's got a lot of themes. Sense and Sensibility is first of all a lovestory (love). You kind of follow Marianne and Elinor Dashwood through their live, while they are trying to find happiness.
So this story is about the growing up of two young women. And how they have to face al kinds of problems, like not having enough money as they used to, and getting their hart broken. Also is it about friendship, the friendship between the two sisters.

8. The Genres:

The story doesn't belong to a specific genre, but to more. First of all it's a novel, a socil novel. About the way people act towards each other, for example the social code all "groups" use. The story tells a lot about the importance of money. Because some people, like Mrs. Ferrars, doen't agree with the marriage of her children, because they think that they ain't good enough to marry their children. But it is also a lovestory, the characters and fall in love get married.

9. Explain the title of the book:

The book's called Sense and Sensibility. I believe it stands for the way Marianne and Elinor act.
Marianne's sensibility is very strong, she follows her heart. She 's got strong feelings. Elinor ain't like that, Elinor obeys her reason, her sense. She "thinks" about her emotions, she always controls them. So the title stands for Elinor (Sense) and Marianne (Sensibility), for the way they handle their emotions and feelings.