ENG323H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Only Time
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Elinor = sense; marianne = sensibility more important to her: elinor is emotional, but she just chooses to hide it as image is. The sisters both appeal to sympathy and ask the readers to identify. On one hand, the novel does seems to openly chastise marianne with them in the text: clich s of women in sensibility susceptibility and sensitivity to romantics. She believes that her relationship with willoughby are right because her feelings are so strong she views her feelings as legally binding: but we find out she was wrong. She doesn"t pay attention to the social conventions around her) Marianne becomes ill (compared directly and indirectly to the fading woman/dying woman: comparison to brandon"s lover, eliza disappointment in love caused her to commit adultery and then die, marianne disappointed in love, like eliza (direct, vol. 171: at her time of life, any thing of an comparison to the dying woman) illness a-year, at the utmost.