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Titels van Jane Austen

• Emma (12)

  1816

• Northanger Abbey (1)

  1798

• Persuasion (1)

  1817

• Pride and prejudice (23)

  1813

• Sense and sensibility / Verstand en onverstand (13)

  1811

Genre
The story has several genres. It’s a novel containing a love story. It’s about social live.
I think this is the best way to describe the genre. It’s about the way people act to each other and the social code of their “group”. Money is a big thing in this book to. It’s about the importance of money. Also it’s about the disagreement of marriage of children for they are not good enough for each other. But the characters fall in love and get married anyway.

Settings
The beginning of the book took place in Norland Park, in Sussex
The country they live in is England. The place where they are the most is in and around Barton Park, at the cottage of the Dashwoods and Sir John’s. But they also visit London several times in the book. And I’ve also read about the estates of the palmers and colonel Brandon (this is in Cleveland in the Somerset)
The setting is not very important but it is important to know that they can’t afford any form of living, But that can take place in every country I guess.
The story takes place in the beginning 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.
I think the time is very important because in the time we are living in it wouldn’t be like this. Every body can afford a house now.
The main character is Elinor she is from the lower class. But the book is about the difference between the classes and the shame you have to take for being poor.
There are several classes described in this book

Characters

Elinor Dashwood: this is the main character 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, and so the Dashwoods didn't have 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. Witch 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 man, and to do something with politics, or in the army. And does she want him to marry a wealthy girl.

Willoughby: he's the guy witch 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 very rich and Whillougby depends on her, finds out about him and Eliza, and tells Whilloughby to marry Eliza and leave 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 wealthy 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 thirty-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 Scotland 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, whom 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 disappears for a year, and when the colonel finds her, she is pregnant with Willoughby’s child. The colonel later marries Marianne Dashwood.

Lucy Steele: Mrs. Jennings' cousin she wants to become a friend of Elinor. Marianne and Elinor aren’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 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, manipulative woman. She only cares for herself and she doesn't care what happens to other people, she is very selfish, and quite evil.

Mrs. Ferrars: she is a very bossy and proud. She wants her sons to become famous in the army or with politics. She wants them all to be married to someone wealthy. She doesn't approve 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-humoured 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.

Sir John Middleton: without him the dashwoods didn’t have a home
Fanny Ferrars without her the dashwoods would still have some money. Mr. Thomas Palmer isn’t very important

Point of view
The book is written in the third person. You see everything happen through the eyes of the narrator
The narrator isn’t one of the characters
He knows everything about everybody
The narrator I an reliable person
The story is told after is really happens

Plot and structure
It’s told in a chronological order.
It’s an uncomplicated story line
You’re in the middle of the things that happen right away
It’s an closed ending, everybody is married and is happy except Willougby.
Anti-climax because I think it isn’t right that willougby married to Sophia Grey
I think that if you do that you will take the power out of the story so no

Subjects and themes
The themes and subjects are impossible love in the way that it is between poor and rich forbidden by the parents. It’s mostly about marriage and engagement. Though feelings and brains are discussed to. It’s about that you have to let the brains and feelings work together, and that’s the message of the novel.

Form and Style
It is written as a story and there isn’t anything special about the way it is written
It’s without a dialog but it’s written in a difficult form of English.
It is a little bit elaborate

Title
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 isn’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
I think an alternative title for this book is money love. Because love is the main theme even as money is one of the choices to get married.
There are no subtitles

Data for booklist
Author: is Jane Austen
Author’s dates: She lived from 1775 till 1817. the author lived in the period this book is about
There isn’t much information about the author
Pseudonym: she doesn’t have any
Nationality: English
Title and subtitles: sense and sensibility
First Published: 1811