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A 5 page paper which examines what the romance narratives contribute to the novel’s social and political arguments. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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using this paper properly! It is impossible to imagine nineteenth-century Romantic literature without Jane Austen. Her imprint is so indelible, it is as if she invented the genre.
Austens novels were driven more by characters than by plot. The characters symbolized the social and political values of their creator. When Jane Austens novel Sense and
Sensibility was published in 1811, the Victorian Age was still years away. England was in the midst of the catastrophic Napoleonic Wars with France, and was a society on
the verge of anarchy. Both political and social reforms were desperately needed, and the authors of Romantic fiction were intent on leading the way. Politically, Jane Austen was
a Tory conservative; socially, she was a social reformer who wanted to prove that women were capable of being much more than being merely attractive adornments on the arms of
men. They were thoughtful, passionate, and most of all, romantic human beings. The Dashwood family of Sense and Sensibility were like the Austens of Hampshire - "old money" and
respectable. However, the privileged world of sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood was forever changed when their father, Henry, died. The social and political patriarchy of the time dictated
that estates automatically reverted to the control of the male heir, which in this instance, was Henrys son by his first marriage, John. Therefore, his widow and her three
daughters were plunged into near-poverty, forced to live on the meager allowance provided by John and his snobbish wife, Fanny. For the two eldest girls, lowered status does not
have a negative impact upon their romantic lives. The vivacious Marianne (who represents the sensibility of the title) is literally swept off her feet by the dashing John Willoughby.
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