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Sense and Sensibility Lesson 7<br />
Answer key<br />
Task 1 – Key<br />
1 false (1811) 2 true 3 true 4 false (Georgian England)<br />
Task 2 – Key<br />
1E 2A 3D 4F 5C 6B<br />
Task 3 – Possible answers<br />
Elinor Dashwood<br />
Older sister – lives with her mother – loves Edward Ferrars<br />
reserved – tactful – prudent – knows how to control her feelings – often<br />
advises her mother<br />
Marianne Dashwood Younger than Elinor – emotionally open – cannot govern her feelings –<br />
sensible and clever – generous – amiable - interesting<br />
Task 4 – Key<br />
a. Marianne b. The narrator c. The narrator d. Elinor<br />
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Task 5 – Key<br />
1 B 2 C 3 B 4 C 5 A<br />
Task 6 – Key<br />
Noun Adjective Adverb<br />
sense sensible sensibly<br />
sensibility sensitive sensitively<br />
acceptance acceptable acceptably<br />
compassion compassionate compassionately<br />
duty dutiful dutifully<br />
gravity grave gravely<br />
honour honourable honourably<br />
joy joyful joyfully<br />
moderation moderate moderately<br />
prudence prudent prudently<br />
Materials by Chris Lima
Article on Sense and Sensibility<br />
By James Clarke<br />
Rather like Austen’s most famous novel, this book’s title immediately lets us know that it’s a story about emotion and<br />
reason, ethics and morals.<br />
Sense and Sensibility (published in 1811) focuses on two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Elinor is the older sister<br />
and Marianne the younger.<br />
With their mother, Elinor and Marianne have to move from their family home, but soon find themselves assisted by a<br />
property owning relative who offers them a cottage to live in. In due course, the cottage becomes the place where a range<br />
of relationships and encounters develop, each of which tests characters’ sense of themselves and of others around them as<br />
the familiar drama of our duty and our desires comes into play. Late in the novel, in chapter 49, Edward Ferrars makes the<br />
point about personal feelings and duty.<br />
Like Austen’s other novels, Sense and Sensibility is a romance and through the course of the book both Elinor and<br />
Marianne think that they might lose the men that they love.<br />
The novel does not only tell a story about love; it also explores the allure that money holds for people and the character of<br />
John Dashwood sees everything in monetary terms.<br />
As in Jane Austen’s other novels, conversations communicate a great deal to the reader about characters, and their<br />
behaviour and attitudes and the broader themes of the novel. Elinor and Marianne talk lots about when it’s appropriate to<br />
lie and, in keeping with Austen’s work, the issue of politeness and integrity are key concerns of the book. In chapter 12,<br />
Marianne and Elinor are walking along together and their conversation gives us a view into Elinor’s thoughts and feelings.<br />
As the novel’s title suggests, pairings and contrasts are a fundamental part of the relationships in the book, as in life. Elinor<br />
and Marianne are the most prominent example of this pairing and contrast: where Elinor understands tact and Marianne is<br />
more emotionally open. Chapter 26 offers a very real sense that Elinor wishes she had some of the romance in her life that<br />
her young sister was experiencing. One character even says to Elinor of her that she is “Always resignation and acceptance.<br />
Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”<br />
One of Jane Austen’s great literary accomplishments was the creation of a narrator’s voice and in Sense and Sensibility the<br />
narrator establishes the key female characters very clearly in chapter one. Elinor is described as “possessed a strength of<br />
understanding, and coolness of judgement, which qualified her, though only nineteen, to be the counsellor of her mother,<br />
and enabled her frequently to counteract, to the advantage of them all, that eagerness of mind in Mrs Dashwood [her<br />
mother] which must generally have led to imprudence. She had an excellent heart; - her disposition was affectionate, and<br />
her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and<br />
which one of her sisters resolved never to be taught.”<br />
Contrastingly, Marianne is described as “sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no<br />
moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent.”<br />
Rather like Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice, Elinor is very good at understanding how the people she knows<br />
behave and think. In chapter ten, look at the way in which the narrator lets us understand how Elinor considers Colonel<br />
Brandon. Austen’s language here is very precise “She liked him – in spite of his gravity and reserve, she beheld in him an<br />
object of interest. His manners, though serious, were mild; and his reserve appeared rather the result of some oppression of<br />
spirits than of any natural gloominess of temper. Sir John had dropped hints of past injuries and disappointments, which<br />
justified her belief of his being an unfortunate man, and she regarded him with respect and compassion.”<br />
As in Jane Austen’s other novels quite a lot of the plot is resolved in the closing few chapters in which various choices that<br />
characters have made are clarified and made sense of. Sense and Sensibility explores the complications of choices, social<br />
pressures and the conventions of property and inheritance and in chapter 29 the text openly presents a conversation about<br />
happiness and unhappiness as Marianne has revealed to her the truth about the man she thought she loved, John<br />
Willoughby. Elinor tries to calm Marianne by saying “You must not talk so, Marianne. Have you no comforts? no friends?<br />
Is your loss such as leaves no opening for consolation? Much as you suffer now, think of what you would have suffered if<br />
the discovery of his character had been delayed to a later period…” Elinor’s thoughtful attempt to calm her anxious sister<br />
reminds us clearly of the Regency period’s interest in self-knowledge and reason, qualities that Jane Austen held so<br />
important that she writes about them in all of her novels.