AUSTEN’S “MARRIAGE PLOT” IN "Sense and Sensibility"
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Name:- Zankhana .M.Matholiya
Roll.No:-36Paper
No.-5- Romantic Literature
Class :- M.A. Sem-2
Enrollment No:- 2069108420180036
College:- Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English
Email ID :- zankhanamatholiya96@gmail.com
Submitted:-Department of English M.K.University, Bhavnagar
v Introduction
· Jane Austen’s novels interplay the feminist issues
that become the mainstream issues highlight. Jane has to very popular and she
is innovative one in all her novel to real and feminist issues portray.
· In her all novel in female has only in straggle to
male dominated society. Jane Austen’s novel in that they revealed only the most
"distant recognition'' of the "feelings' and no awareness of the
"passions'. And it may that What throbs fast and full, though hidden, what
the blood rushes through, what is the unseen seat of life and the sentient target
of death this Miss Austen ignores."
· It remained for Jane Austen's nephew to provide
biographical support for the view by recording, "Of events her life was
singularly barren”. In her work to Jane says that to female has to
marginalization in society and we see that to his five best novel to woman has
situation bad and face to every time in give money, sacrifices, love and man
neglected to woman.
® Sense and Sensibility
® Persuasion
® Emma
® Mansfield Park
® Pride and Prejudice
· In this five novels in Austen has to women are face to
problem in society and there are very helpless to men.
· But in her “sense and sensibility” (1818) in three
Sister Elinor, Marianne and Margret life and also they are mature but as female
face social problem in this novel. Jane had woman spectator expands not only as
feminist, female and feminine, she portrayed to woman in society.
· Austen’s novels are translated into ideologies that
reflect the social context of the productions. So now Jane has feminist author
and she wrote to woman identities in this novel ‘sense and sensibility’.
v About “Sense and Sensibility”
· First it is necessary to know about the title
that is selected by Jane Austen in her novel Sense and Sensibility. Jane Austen
was particularly concerned with the answer to these questions, especially
within the confines of her eighteenth century British society.
· Never more does she examine the possible answers
to these questions than in her first published novel Sense and
Sensibility. Most critics understand that Austen’s
original title for this novel was not Sense and Sensibility but
was rather Elinor and Marianne.
· Knowing this makes
it more understandable as to why she used the word “sense” and the word “sensibility”
to see them in congruence with one another allows us to appreciate the
opposites of her intentional juxtaposition, which is in essence that Elinor’s
second name is “Sense,” and Marianne’s is “Sensibility.”
· Austen tries to give readers a real representation of women in Austen’s
time who struggle to practice their freedom in society.
· These protagonists face many problems that restrict women in a
particular position, either becoming a wife, mother, or an old maid. Austen’s
novels highlight the major issues that maintain the continuation of women’s
inferiority, oppression, and dependency.
· They also explore these issues in depth in order to break the arbitrary
norms and traditions that prevent women from attaining their rights.
· Novels from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries have given a
realistic picture of English modern notions of marriage and family. Most of
these novels concentrate on the courtship and marriage plot, one that
represents the interpretation of marriage in English society as a religious
institution.
· These novels deal with traditional marriage in Romantic culture. Also,
readers can realize the cultural significance as well as the impact of these
novels, which have spread throughout the world and have become especially
relevant in contemporary popular culture.
· In fact, the current adaptations of these novels have impacted modern
society. But the original so called marriage-plot novels present the
traditional notions of marriage in English society in the eighteenth century.
v Austen’s Concept of Marriage.
· Austen’s novels explore the
marriage to come to light; marriage plot
in depth several critics argue , allowing Austen’s views of that she ultimately
succeeds in redefining the concept of marriage states,.
· “Jennifer Jones”, addressing the Romantic view of marriage, “Marriage
settlements, which are legal documents that specify how property will move in,
through, and beyond a given marriage, are not just common in Austen’s novels
but are often at the dramatic center of their plot and subplots.
· Austen, unlike has a different view of marriage; Austen understands that
women need to go through several stages in their lives, thus they need love,
marriage, and motherhood.
· Austen’s heroines marry for money as well as for affection. Austen
claims that happiness in marriage should not be “a matter of chance rather it
should be a combination of both love and a
good income. For Austen, English women could engage in happy marriages based on the
two aforementioned conditions.
· Difficulty in English Courtship and Marriage Austen’s novels center on
the marriage plot, and within that plot Austen focuses on different areas of
traditional marriage.
· She illustrates, particularly, three areas of difficulty related to the
several stages of English courtship and marriage rituals. Austen’s observations
of marriage consultations, rituals, and ceremonies conducted by her pastor
father, George Austen, allow marriage celebration. and her insight into the
various steps that lead to the actual.
· She analyzes the approach that male characters take in proposing
marriage to female characters. Some male characters choose appropriate places
and times for requesting a female’s hand in marriage while others make their
proposals in humorous ways. Austen is also famous for portraying characters who
conceal their engagements for various reasons, sometimes for a period of years.
v Methods of Marriage Proposals.
· Austen’s novels demonstrate how men propose marriage to women in the
eighteenth century. Asking Versus Telling: One Aspect of Jane Austen’s Idea of
Conversation,” discusses the two ways in which male characters propose marriage
in Austen’s novels: either asking or telling.
· In proposal scenes, Austen’s novels present the difference between
asking and telling that, thus, enables readers to distinguish that the first is
a request while the second is a demand. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and
Prejudice, and Emma exemplify these two methods. Of the three novels Pride and
Prejudice offers the most humorous version of a marriage proposal.
v Accepted Proposals:-
· Austen’s novels demonstrate that she will accepted proposals indicate
that male characters ask females for their approvals. According to Stovel, “the
successful proposals in Austen’s novels show the man is asking a genuine
question and leaving himself on tenterhooks”
v Secret Engagements:-
· The other hand, neither male nor female characters, in some cases, has
freedom of choice partners in marriage because of the eighteenth century
customs that discouraged marriage between different classes. By following
arbitrarily the English system of marriage, arguably oppressive, both male and
female characters are prohibited from marrying whom they love.
· As a result, some male characters are engaged secretly to females who
belong to a middle or lower class. A secret engagement, an engagement kept
hidden from society by a fiancé, is an example that produces adverse effects.
As mentioned earlier, women with no fortune have little opportunity to marry
men from the upper class. In Sense and Sensibility.
· For example, Edward Ferrars a wealthy man, keeps his engagement to Lucy
Steele, a middle-class woman, a secret for four years because Lucy does not
have a fortune. In addition, he is afraid that his mother, Mrs. Ferrars, would
not approve their marriage.
· According to Tara Wallace, Sense and Sensibility represents the
authority of women who persecute men such as Edward who becomes a victim of his
mother, his sister, and Lucy, his secret fiancée. Wallace claims said that
Edward is a passive character whose family influences whom he should marry. His
mother and his sister not only force him into an economically advantageous
marriage, but they also restrict him from acting freely in all aspects of his
life.
· Wallace argues that Edward’s family likes “great men or barouches” while
he prefers “domestic comfort and the quiet of a private life”. On the other
hand, Lucy, who is of a lower social class than Edward, tries to place herself
in a position with Edward that would be financially advantageous to her. She
gains this position through her uncle who is Edward’s teacher.
· Unfortunately, Robert, the younger brother of Edward, inherits the
money. Thus, Lucy changes her plan and starts to seduce Robert, who marries her
at the end of the novel. As a result, Edward blames his family for his
passiveness.
· Edward tells Elinor “instead of having anything to do, instead of having
any profession chosen for me, or being allowed to choose any myself, I returned
home to be completely idle”. Edward does not have the courage to confront any
of the women in his life.
v Refusing a Marriage Proposal.
· The Refusing a Marriage Proposal second topic in the marriage plot that
Austen examines marriage proposal from relatives, “endogamous marriages,” or
the power to refuse from other men, “exogamous marriages,” and the perceptions
of English society of women’s refusal.
· Austen tries to clarify why a woman refuses a proposal simply stated,
the man is not appropriate for her. In fact, Austen, in her real life, received
and accepted a proposal of marriage from Edward Bridges, a twenty-six years old
clergyman. However, she changed her mind overnight and suddenly refused the
proposal the next morning marriage would have given her financial security and
would provide.
· Although that support for her parents and sister, she rejected it
because it would not offer her love. As always, Austen rejected the idea of
marrying only for wealth as she wrote about “a marriage of convenience” to a
niece, Fanny Knight: “nothing can be compared to the misery of being bound
without love”.
· Austen tries to show the notions of both genders relating to the issue
of the marriage plot. She emphasizes that men fail to propose to women for the
same reasons that women fail to accept proposals inferior social status and
lack of fortune. Wealth and lass played important roles in selecting partners
in English society in the eighteenth century.
· The two obvious examples of men’s reactions toward marrying women from a
middle or lower class occur in previously mentioned in Sense and Sensibility.
Sense and Sensibility in when the first one, as Willoughby, a deceitful and
hypocritical man, fortune, refuses to choose Marianne as his wife because she
is a woman with no Earlier in the novel, Willoughby manipulates Eliza Colonel Brandon's protege and, then,
abandons her. He leaves Eliza alone even though she is pregnant. When his aunt,
Mrs. Smith, knows of this incident, she requests Willoughby to rectify his
mistake. Unfortunately, he refuses his aunt’s request to marry Eliza because of
her illegitimacy; thus Mrs.Smith disinherits him. He is left with no money and
large debts. As a solution to his problem, he chooses Miss Grey, a wealthy
single woman, as his wife. In addition, Wallace explains that Willoughby, like
Edward, blames other people for his mistakes. Willoughby declares that he
becomes a victim of Miss Grey’s authority and manipulation.
· However, the truth is that “Sophia Willoughby is married to a man
Willoughby who values her only for her after marriage in order to seek
Marianne’ money and who abandons her shortly forgiveness”. Through Marianne,
Austen explains the reason behind women’s issues middle class who have no large
fortune on women from the have less chance of marriage love.
v CONCLUSION:-
· Jane Austen’s novels clearly and accurately portray eighteenth-century
English culture and tradition. In her novels, Austen presents several issues
relating to English society, especially the problems facing women. The
inequality between males and females in education and the inheritance and
marriage laws that inhibited women’s rights.
· She also demonstrates the difficulties that women of the middle class
experience in supporting themselves. They have only two choices of survival
either working as governesses or marrying “secure” men, including clergymen and
landowners, or for the upper classes, independently wealthy men.
· Even though women were marginalized in English society, Austen portrays
the female characters as intellectual, eloquent, and creative characters. Her
main purpose in writing novels focusing on females is to show that females are
capable of managing their households, of maintaining leadership roles, and of
making important decisions.
· In creating such characters, Austen participates in correcting the
stereotypical image of women as being inferior to men. The focuses on various
representations of women’s oppression in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.
· Including Austen’s novels, help to develop new thinking about offering
additional privileges in society, education, and politics to women and reform.
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