ENG323H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sense And Sensibility, Primogeniture
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Argument: austen favors interrelationship between these two terms. With marianne, her code of sensibility is the kind of man she wants to meet: she tries to find a man from a novel of romance. This is of course, a fictional construct. Social dangers of marianne approaching the relationship to naively. Marianne"s emotions bring her to act in excessive ways in a public setting when. Willoughby displays a lack of interest in speaking with her (pg. Conceals her feelings to appease notions of decorum. Marianne learns to be more rational after her illness. Novel is about the sisters balancing sense and sensibility and growing emotionally and logically: marianne almost dies b/c of her excessive sensibility, while elinor is emotionally isolating herself as a result of her excessive sense, pg. 275-277 - lucy and edward"s engagement publicly revealed, effects on. 350 - marianne starts employing the language of sense ( duty, exertion, .
