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A 5 page paper which contrasts the growth and change of Marianne with the lack of growth/change in Lucy. No additional sources are used.
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Thanks, in large part, to the novels of Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters, English fiction flourished with heroines whose personal growth seemed to evolve with every page. Two
of the most intriguing female heroines of this time period were Marianne Dashwood in Jane Austens 1811 novel, Sense and Sensibility, and Lucy Honeychurch in E.M. Forsters 1908 novel, A
Room With a View. In the former, the passionate character changes from romantic expectations of youthful sensibility into the realistic acceptance that comes with maturity. However, in the
latter, the relatively na?ve but highly opinionated social maiden changes little, or exhibits any type of life-altering growth. Seventeen-year-old Marianne Dashwood was the quintessential middle daughter long before TVs Jan
Brady. Unlike the staid and responsible older sister Elinor or the precocious young Margaret, Marianne was a creature who let her emotions chart her lifes course. She could
not imagine life without intense passion, and believed the love of a Prince Charming would rescue her from a mundane existence and carry her off to a fairy-tale life of
endless romance. Of her, Austen wrote, "Mariannes abilities were, in many respects, quite equal to Elinors. She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys,
could have no moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent" (Sense and Sensibility). Marianne was clearly moved more by her heart than her head,
and admitted to Elinor, "I have been too much at my ease, too happy, too frank. I have erred against every common-place notion of decorum; I have been open
and sincere where I ought to have been reserved, spiritless, dull, and deceitful" (Austen Sense and Sensibility). When Marianne met the dashing John Willoughby, who chivalrously came to her
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