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About This Novel
"Sense and Sensibility" is one of Jane Austen's most humorous works. It mainly tells the story of the complicated love and marriage of two sisters, Elinor and Mellie, who live in a British squire family. The elder sister Elilo is good at controlling emotions with reason, while the younger sister Melia is full of fantasies about love. Therefore, when they face love, they have completely different reactions. Through this humorous comparison of "reason and emotion", the novel raises the issue of moral and behavioral norms, which is thought-provoking. "Sense and Sensibility" and the author's other masterpiece "Pride and Prejudice" can be called companion works, and have been adapted to the big screen many times.
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Official(22)Scraped 4d ago
good work
Two sisters with obvious differences in personality finally live happily ever after.
Pride and Prejudice is better than Sense and Sensibility
I feel like the prologue to the first chapter is almost spoiled...
The story is good. Although I didn't appreciate Mélière's temperament at the beginning, both sisters were portrayed very well.
I just finished reading Pride and Prejudice, now let's revisit the classic
Girls are easily satisfied. Meliai, don't think that her sister Elilo is difficult to coax. In fact, as long as you recognize her words and agree with her point of view, it will be fine.
The theme of Austen's novels: the pursuit of truth and goodness. Whether it is the pursuit of a good marriage between the two sisters or the superior and inferior judgments made on different groups of people in the novel, they all show the implicit moral purpose of Austen's novels, that is, how to understand oneself and others, and how to live a valuable life. The two sisters fell in love for the first time. They were passionately in love, and then fell into the pain of love. This process allowed them to get to know others, learn to distinguish good qualities from bad qualities in men, and also get to know themselves. The rational Elinor dealt with various things appropriately, and the emotional Marianne learned to be restrained and adapt to the outside world from falling in love. The only important thing in women's lives is marriage, and in their limited lives, they can also gain knowledge about life like men and get closer to a good self-life. The model of Austen's novels is relatively unified. There are usually two sisters. One of them is calm and the other is active. They both met love at the same time, and men are always unknown to them. The two sisters mainly grow up in the process of interacting with each other. They both have the characteristics that the other lacks, so the communication between the two just reflects the weaknesses of the other - love shows their shining points, while sisterhood reflects their shortcomings. Through this positive and negative display, the characters can be presented to the readers very clearly and fully. In the first two volumes of Sense and Emotion, the characters of the two sisters are constantly amplified in the love story. The elder sister bears the pain patiently, while the younger sister is enveloped in passionate emotions. The two channels represented by the two sisters extend in different directions and magnify their characteristics. However, in the third volume, when the two sisters understand each other, the two channels merge together, and the novel also moves towards a stable rhythm. What follows this rhythm is the revelation of truth and goodness. After going through all kinds of troubles, the two sisters gain understanding of marriage and life, and finally gain good love. Speaking from impressions, Sense and Emotion is different from other Austen novels in that it is less dramatic and less intense in contradictions and conflicts. For example, when Marianne is in pain, the text only describes her painful mood from the outside, while Elinor also silently digests what she encounters in her heart - when things happen, they accept them, understand and digest them in their hearts, and rarely take active actions. Therefore, the rhythm of the novel appears to be very gentle and smooth. The love story does not affect everyone's lives vigorously, but it affects the feelings of several people in a hidden place. * The novel reads very clearly, perhaps due to Elinor's semi-omniscient perspective, we can clearly see the direction of the story, and also due to the clarity of the characters in the novel. This work is a novel full of exchanges and dialogues. The exchanges between the two sisters, the exchanges between the two sisters and others, and the exchanges between them and themselves. These exchanges not only make the story and characters clear, but also create a feeling of transparent state of mind. There is no concealment or dislocation between the characters and us. The novel is communicating with the readers. We perceive the changes in things together with the characters - the novelist abdicates, and the readers and characters form a common understanding - we have a common breath with the characters, which adds to the thoroughness of the novel. In this novel, the development of the story truly has the characteristics of being subtle. The story will not stagnate and advance every moment, but there is no particularly intense plot point. It completely conforms to the natural rhythm and flows steadily and without trace. Superb narrative ability. Perhaps due to the smoothness of the narrative, the fluctuating emotions of the two sisters that are not publicized, and the very clear reading perception, the novel reads like a natural weather, like a silent and breezy autumn. This is the effect of the right rhythm and rhythm, which makes the novel form an air current, just like the autumn in the British countryside. No matter how you read it, Austen's novels are always full of enviable leisure, peaceful and wealthy aristocratic life, intelligent and beautiful women, and gentle and golden men. In such a comfortable environment, young women explore what it means to be a good person and pursue a beautiful marriage. In Austen's novels, people are knowable, they have the ability to understand the truth of life, and constantly get closer to the existence of goodness. But French novels are full of failed marriages. Once a woman is cheated, her misfortune will extend throughout her life. After all, French novels have a realist origin. There are few opportunities for correction in reality. Instead, they reveal human nature in very "realistic" situations. Austen's novels are much more comfortable. There is no perfect person. People have flaws but they can recognize their flaws and achieve an ideal life through the wisdom of kindness. This is the educational power of novels.
Very warm
After reading this book, I feel very calm and warm inside. It is a story that you will enjoy reading.
The plot is very attractive and the content is very close to reality. I am going to read the original novel.
A companion piece! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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Official(22)Scraped 4d ago
good work
Two sisters with obvious differences in personality finally live happily ever after.
Pride and Prejudice is better than Sense and Sensibility
I feel like the prologue to the first chapter is almost spoiled...
The story is good. Although I didn't appreciate Mélière's temperament at the beginning, both sisters were portrayed very well.
I just finished reading Pride and Prejudice, now let's revisit the classic
Girls are easily satisfied. Meliai, don't think that her sister Elilo is difficult to coax. In fact, as long as you recognize her words and agree with her point of view, it will be fine.
The theme of Austen's novels: the pursuit of truth and goodness. Whether it is the pursuit of a good marriage between the two sisters or the superior and inferior judgments made on different groups of people in the novel, they all show the implicit moral purpose of Austen's novels, that is, how to understand oneself and others, and how to live a valuable life. The two sisters fell in love for the first time. They were passionately in love, and then fell into the pain of love. This process allowed them to get to know others, learn to distinguish good qualities from bad qualities in men, and also get to know themselves. The rational Elinor dealt with various things appropriately, and the emotional Marianne learned to be restrained and adapt to the outside world from falling in love. The only important thing in women's lives is marriage, and in their limited lives, they can also gain knowledge about life like men and get closer to a good self-life. The model of Austen's novels is relatively unified. There are usually two sisters. One of them is calm and the other is active. They both met love at the same time, and men are always unknown to them. The two sisters mainly grow up in the process of interacting with each other. They both have the characteristics that the other lacks, so the communication between the two just reflects the weaknesses of the other - love shows their shining points, while sisterhood reflects their shortcomings. Through this positive and negative display, the characters can be presented to the readers very clearly and fully. In the first two volumes of Sense and Emotion, the characters of the two sisters are constantly amplified in the love story. The elder sister bears the pain patiently, while the younger sister is enveloped in passionate emotions. The two channels represented by the two sisters extend in different directions and magnify their characteristics. However, in the third volume, when the two sisters understand each other, the two channels merge together, and the novel also moves towards a stable rhythm. What follows this rhythm is the revelation of truth and goodness. After going through all kinds of troubles, the two sisters gain understanding of marriage and life, and finally gain good love. Speaking from impressions, Sense and Emotion is different from other Austen novels in that it is less dramatic and less intense in contradictions and conflicts. For example, when Marianne is in pain, the text only describes her painful mood from the outside, while Elinor also silently digests what she encounters in her heart - when things happen, they accept them, understand and digest them in their hearts, and rarely take active actions. Therefore, the rhythm of the novel appears to be very gentle and smooth. The love story does not affect everyone's lives vigorously, but it affects the feelings of several people in a hidden place. * The novel reads very clearly, perhaps due to Elinor's semi-omniscient perspective, we can clearly see the direction of the story, and also due to the clarity of the characters in the novel. This work is a novel full of exchanges and dialogues. The exchanges between the two sisters, the exchanges between the two sisters and others, and the exchanges between them and themselves. These exchanges not only make the story and characters clear, but also create a feeling of transparent state of mind. There is no concealment or dislocation between the characters and us. The novel is communicating with the readers. We perceive the changes in things together with the characters - the novelist abdicates, and the readers and characters form a common understanding - we have a common breath with the characters, which adds to the thoroughness of the novel. In this novel, the development of the story truly has the characteristics of being subtle. The story will not stagnate and advance every moment, but there is no particularly intense plot point. It completely conforms to the natural rhythm and flows steadily and without trace. Superb narrative ability. Perhaps due to the smoothness of the narrative, the fluctuating emotions of the two sisters that are not publicized, and the very clear reading perception, the novel reads like a natural weather, like a silent and breezy autumn. This is the effect of the right rhythm and rhythm, which makes the novel form an air current, just like the autumn in the British countryside. No matter how you read it, Austen's novels are always full of enviable leisure, peaceful and wealthy aristocratic life, intelligent and beautiful women, and gentle and golden men. In such a comfortable environment, young women explore what it means to be a good person and pursue a beautiful marriage. In Austen's novels, people are knowable, they have the ability to understand the truth of life, and constantly get closer to the existence of goodness. But French novels are full of failed marriages. Once a woman is cheated, her misfortune will extend throughout her life. After all, French novels have a realist origin. There are few opportunities for correction in reality. Instead, they reveal human nature in very "realistic" situations. Austen's novels are much more comfortable. There is no perfect person. People have flaws but they can recognize their flaws and achieve an ideal life through the wisdom of kindness. This is the educational power of novels.
Very warm
After reading this book, I feel very calm and warm inside. It is a story that you will enjoy reading.
The plot is very attractive and the content is very close to reality. I am going to read the original novel.
A companion piece! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
