...Book Report - Sense and Sensibility In Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, the title is a metaphor for the two main characters Elinor and Marianne. Elinor represents sense and Marianne represents sensibility. We find out early that Elinor does not share her feelings. When Edward comes into the story, there was an immediate attraction. She tells no one of her feelings. It was just assumed that they are meant for each other. When Edward has to leave, Elinor says nothing. Edward does promise he will come down and give Margaret an atlas. When the atlas comes and not Edward, the one who ends up crying was Margaret and not Elinor. We do learn, however, that Elinor can get emotional too. When Marianne was playing the piano at their new cottage, Elinor cries as she listens. She said the song was her late father's favorite. Later on in the story, Marianne kept on nagging Elinor for not sharing her feelings. Finally, Elinor shows her emotions by telling her that she did have a broken heart after she found out that Edward had a fiancee - Lucy. Elinor would definitely represent sense. She keeps her thoughts to herself. Maybe it is because she thinks she will not end up hurting so bad as Marianne did. Marianne, on the other hand, represents sensibility. She follows her heart. She does not let anything come in the way of showing her emotions. When she first met Colonel Brandon, it is obvious that he was in love with her at first sight. Marianne, shows very clear that she was not...
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...Old Mr. Dashwood is the owner of a large estate in Sussex called Norland Park. Following the death of his sister, Mr. Dashwood invites his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood to come live with him at Norland. The younger Mr. Dashwood brings John Dashwood, his son from a previous marriage, as well as the three daughters born to his present wife. John Dashwood is grown and married, and has a four-year-old son, Harry. When Old Mr. Dashwood dies, he leaves his estate to John and little Harry, who had much endeared himself to the old man. But now John's father, Henry Dashwood, is left with no way of supporting his wife and three daughters, and he too dies one year later, leaving only ten thousand pounds for his family. Just before his death, he makes his son John promise to care for his stepmother and three half-sisters. Mr. John Dashwood initially intends to keep his promise and treat his female relatives generously, but his wife Fanny, a narrow-minded and selfish woman, convinces him to leave them only five hundred pounds apiece. Fanny moves into Norland immediately following Mr. Henry Dashwood's death and becomes mistress of the estate, relegating John's stepmother Mrs. Dashwood and half-sisters Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret to the status of mere visitors. Fanny's brother, Edward Ferrars, visits Norland for several weeks and develops a strong attachment to Elinor Dashwood. Edward is the eldest son of a man who died very rich; now his entire fate depends upon his mother's will. Although...
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...Book Review 1 Development of Major Characters Sense and Sensibility The first of Jane Austen’s published novels, Sense and Sensibility, portrays the life and loves of two very different sisters: Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The contrast between the sister’s characters results in their attraction to vastly different men, sparking family and societal dramas that are played out around their contrasting romances. The younger sister, Marianne Dashwood, emerges as one of the novel’s major characters through her treatment and characterization of people, embodying of emotion, relationship with her mother and sisters, openness, and enthusiasm. Marianne is in the jejune business of classifying people- especially men- as romantic or unromantic (Intro II). Marianne’s checklist mentality is observed by Elinor: “Well, Marianne…for one morning I think you have done pretty well…. You know what he thinks of Cowper and Scott; you are certain of his estimating their beauties as he ought, and you have every assurance of his admiring Pope no more than proper.” (Chapter 10) To site a specific incident, Marianne describes her opinion of Edward Ferrars- her sister’s interest- as being very amiable, yet he is not the kind of man she expects to seriously attach to her sister. She goes on to find, what in her opinion are flaws, that Edward Ferrars reads with little feeling or emotion, does not regard music highly, and that he enjoys Elinor’s drawing, yet cannot appreciate...
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...An English author widely read in the nineteen-hundreds, was Jane Austen. Although Austen’s works were widely read and popular in her lifetime, she published her works anonymously. All of her books are mainly about of her bright, young heroines in courtship and finally marriage, even though Austen herself never married. Her best-known books include PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. Virginia Woolf, a renown critic in Austen’s time called Austen "the most perfect artist among women." Austen’s position as part of the upper class of the early nineteenth century British society gave her not only a subject for her novels but also the time needed for writing. Jane Austen was born, in Steventon, Hampshire, where her father, Rev. George Austen, was a rector. She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight. Austen’s father’s unexpectedly retired after twenty-five years of living in Steventon; hence the family sold off everything and moved to Bath. Jane, aged twenty-five, and her elder sister, Cassandra (age twenty-eight), were considered to be confirmed old maids, followed their parents. Jane Austen was mostly tutored at home, and irregularly at school, but she received a broader education than many women of her time. She started to write for family amusement as a child. Her parents were avid readers; Austen's own favorite poet was Cowper. Her earliest-known writings date from about 1787. Very shy about her writing, she wrote on small pieces of paper that she slipped under the desk...
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...Throughout Sense and Sensibility, characterization was evident. Characterization, as defined above, allowed the reader to receive either direct information about the character, or indirectly told about the character. Austen described Colonel Brandon as, “He was silent and grave. His appearance however was not unpleasing, in spite of his being in the opinion of Marianne and Margaret an absolute old bachelor, for he was on the wrong side of five and thirty; but though his face was not handsome his countenance was sensible, and he address was particularly gentlemanlike” (Sense and Sensibility 22). This described Colonel Brandon as kind and simple. Austen also used more indirect characterization in Sense and Sensibility than in Pride and Prejudice. Marianne was constantly talking about her life and how bad it was. Therefore, readers could conclude that she did not like to hide what she was feeling or thinking. Marianne was melodramatic about her life. Austen also, was careful when she gave each of her characters names. Although not all of them have an appeal when the name was said, when ‘Dashwood’ was said, it left a calm feeling, while ‘Lucy Steele’ was a harsh name just as she was pretty harsh herself. By looking just at the names of her characters, readers would know a little about each one. Characterization was used to enhance the characters, and allowed the reader to connect them to themselves. No matter what piece of work it was, conflicts exist; without conflicts the story...
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...In Jane Austen’s lifetime she completed six novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Throughout Austen’s writing she draws her readers in with the interesting characters. Austen makes her readers fall in love with the characters. She makes the characters seem as if they dislike or feel awkward towards each other, but in then end fall in love. Austen captures her reader’s attentions with her vivid writing. You can clearly see a mental picture between the characters conversations. Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility portray the main romantic characters sympathetically and vividly, leading the reader to connect with the characters fully. In Pride and Prejudice, the relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth appears to be conflicting. In the movie Darcy insults Elizabeth at the first ball by saying, “she is tolerable, not handsome enough to tempt me.”(--) That hurt Elizabeth’s feelings and made her dislike Darcy. At Netherfield, Darcy, Elizabeth, and Caroline are talking about ideal qualities of a wife, and Caroline, with Darcy’s agreement, says, “A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half deserved” (------). To a modern reader, this seems like an unreasonable amount of qualities to possess in an...
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...HEROINES Heroines Jane Austen- ENG 471 Abstract A heroine is a woman of strong emotional strength, character, moral standard and willpower. A heroine knows what she wants in life and she knows that she will not get their by settling for anything less. In the stories of Elizabeth Bennet, Elinor Dashwood, Fanny Price, and Emma Woodhouse, this was just the case. They fought to overcome obstacles and challenges that they were faced with so that they could live happy and prosperous lives. In their own way they proved to be heroines. Introduction In my opinion, a heroine is a woman with emotional strength, character, moral standard and willpower. A heroine does not have to be the richest, smartest or prettiest, but she does have to have a sense of esteem. A heroine knows what she wants, as well as what she does not want and she knows how to go about getting it in her own way. This is a head strong woman who keeps her priorities in line with realistic measures and the things that will keep them being the strong women that they are. While reading the Jane Austen novels and watching the movies there were several heroines to consider. While they were all carried different situations and outcome when it came to relationships and family, they were all the same in being strong in character and their beliefs. It seemed as if they carried the personal motto: don’t settle for less in the matters of love and relationships and each heroine did just that. The heroines in the Jane Austen novels...
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...Since the advent of cable television, there have been more and more fascinating programs sticking viewers, especially children, into the screen. This, therefore, creates certain complaints that it is wasteful your time watching TV. However, with all the benefits it provides, television is really worth watching. One of the strength points making television much more preferable than other means of information – supply, such as newspaper and radio, is that it can provide news together with animated pictures and lively sounds. Thus, viewers can get more details of the news and enjoy it much more than reading lots of words in newspaper or listen to voices on radio only. Moreover, thanks to the contemporary techniques, television can now provide live programs, which are broadcast to people all over the world at the same time as the events happen. Tired of watching news, people can relax themselves with an enormous variety of absorbing such as game shows, music performances and especially movies or films. Movie program on television can easily take the top – chosen position as there are all kinds of film for all types of viewers. Recent survey shows that there is approximately 53 percents housewives claim that they are very fond of television films and spend a great deal of time watching it, especially when preparing meals. Those surveyed later added that they feel really relaxed to watch television while doing household chores. TV program makers, of course, cannot ignore children’s...
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...The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Sense and Sensibility Author: Jane Austen Release Date: May 25, 2008 [EBook #161] [This file last updated September 6, 2010] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SENSE AND SENSIBILITY *** SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen (1811) CONTENTS CHAPTER I CHAPTER VI CHAPTER XI CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER CHAPTER XXVI XXVII CHAPTER CHAPTER XXXI XXXII CHAPTER CHAPTER XXXVI XXXVII CHAPTER XLI CHAPTER XLII CHAPTER CHAPTER XLVI XLVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXXIII CHAPTER XXXVIII CHAPTER XLIII CHAPTER XLVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXXIV CHAPTER XXXIX CHAPTER XLIV CHAPTER XLIX CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXX CHAPTER XXXV CHAPTER XL CHAPTER XLV CHAPTER L CHAPTER 1 The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to...
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...German Philosophy: Kant’s concept of reason Critique of Pure Reason Prateek S Kolhar (EE10B109) 29th April 2014 1. Introduction During the period of enlightenment in Europe, there were 2 schools of thought that talked about the way we acquire knowledge: Rationalism and Empiricism. Rationalists like Leibniz claimed that knowledge is innate, that is, we are born with all the knowledge and the experiences that we have in this world just help us in uncovering/ remembering this knowledge. Empiricist believed that all knowledge is got only through experience in other words we are born with our minds/souls like a clean slate and the experiences write on them. With this struggle between the two schools of thought enlightenment Europe was striving to find ways to arrive at a consensus about some of these aforementioned central issues of theory of knowledge. And the champion of a philosopher who accomplished with task was Immanuel Kant. Kant borrowed many concepts from both empiricism and rationalism. But he felt that the many of the rationalist ideas were too simplistic and dogmatic and some of the empiricist ideas we too skeptic about the ability of humans to acquire true knowledge. As a part of his critical philosophy, with an aim to resolve this problem of theory of knowledge he wrote 3 critiques: Critique of pure reason, Critique of practical reason and Critique of judgment. Critique of Pure Reason talks about the process of knowledge acquisition in natural sciences, the way...
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...very nature of theater encounters many changes in regard to matters about whether the writing of the text should precede its performance or vice versa and whether it is supposed to communicate its meaning to spectators’ minds or senses. Artaud's theatrical spectacle comes to sort out these problems. In an essay entitled ’’ This Extreme and Difficult Sense of Spectacular Representation’’: Antonin Artaud’s Ontology of ’’ Live’’, Deborah Levitt concludes that the peculiarity of this spectacle resides in its aim to ’’speak to the senses of its spectators’’. This tendency bears within itself the germs of a poststructral belief toward language. In fact, language is no longer the medium of instructing the minds as a result of the skepticism that poststructuralists show to the linguistic field. Thus, Artaud stands ahead of the group saying that theatre has not to work on our mind but rather on our senses. In this respect, it is relevant to draw on the conception of theatrical language for Artaud : it is not verbal, but rather visual. This new shape of language goes along with Artaudian concern of embarking on his objective ’’to arrest on our sensibility’’ (Derrida). It is only through this visual language that ’’Artaud embeds visibility in a ‘pure sensibility’’’, in Levitt’s words....
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...Compare Kant’s theory of transcendental idealist space with that if one of the philosophers (Newton/Clarke) that Kant claims have a transcendental realist conception of space. Which conception if space is more true and why? The ontological nature of space is one of the fundamental questions in Kant’s metaphysics and is the foundation around which he constructs his notion of transcendental idealism laid out in his Critique of Pure Reason. Written in response to the previous ‘realist’ conceptions of space Kant challenged strongly the view of its ultimate reality and served to shift the scope of the ontological argument from one of ‘absolutism’ versus ‘relationalism’ to a more developed debate of ‘realism’ against ‘idealism’ as he brought the relationship between space and time, and the mind strongly to the fore. In this essay I am going to contrast this Kantian notion of space as being ‘transcendentally ideal’ against the branded ‘transcendental realism’ of Newton and Clarke. Starting with the latter I’ll go on to bring in the former then proceed to analyse the developments Kant forges past his predecessors. I will then conclude by assessing how and why his view holds more metaphysical depth than that put forward in the Newtonian model by looking at how he accounts for the scope and perspective of human consciousness and the epistemological limits inherent within it. To begin however I will now go to the absolutist models put forward by Newton and Clarke. Prior to Kant,...
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...7/12/2015 ELI Ethical Lens Inventory Results ASHLEY FOURNIER You listen to your intuition (sensibility) to determine the greatest good for each individual (autonomy). Core: Autonomy and Sensibility You prioritize the value of autonomy over equality. Your primary concern is protecting individual rights. You believe this is the best way to assure that everyone in the community is treated fairly. You strongly value sensibility over rationality. Your commitment to examining each situation in its own context is so strong that you resist applying universal rules even when this makes the most sense or produces the best result. Classical: Prudence You demonstrate wisdom in practical matters and foresight as you act with enlightened self-interest in a particular situation. You also bring optimism, imagination and the gift of entrepreneurship to the table. Key: “I make choices that are good for everyone.” Because you value autonomy and sensibility, you tend to assume that each person operates from a clear sense of their own values. Behavior: Creating the Greatest Good You define an ethical person as one who makes responsible choices that benefit many different individuals at the same time. You seek "win-win" results for everyone, even in complex situations. Tools: Experience You see the current situation in the light of past experiences and tend to use a combination of intuition and imagination to incorporate new information and solve problems. You focus on what...
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...of term 1, we have finished the sense and sensibility phrase and empathy phrase. In sense and sensibility stage, we have come out with our issues and project statement which is “How can we help the locals and foreign students to socialise better?” In the empathy stage, we had done an interview to our potential users and drawn a persona with the data collected. In this project, especially for the empathy stage, I learned better in how to use design thinking tools. One thing that I think especially useful is the interview. It is applied during empathy phrase to gather insights about the relationship between locals and foreign students. Before the interview, my idea of the relationship between locals and foreigner mainly come from what Medias portray and that may not be the accurate picture of relationship between foreign and local student as the Media always highlight issues that are unusual and not of the common. It did happen to my case as I do the interview in expectation of an answer similar to what Medias portrayal but the answer prove me wrong. It really make a difference in our project as if I have not done the interview and jump to persona stage, I might probably do a different persona and ideation and get the prototype wrong. This shows that interview is an effective tool of gathering information in empathy phrase and in future project; I will continue to use it. The most difficult design thinking process is sense and sensibility, to describe the issue and context...
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...Primary qualities include aspects such as taste, colour, and sounds, while secondary qualities include aspects such as motion, figure and extension (Berkeley 27). Appearances under this standpoint are those representations that are valid only to a particular standpoint; things-in-themselves constitute the sensibility of all human beings (Kant 85). The Leibniz-Wolffian school held that appearances are the product of the senses while things-in-themselves can only be known through the faculty of understanding. Sensibility gives us access to the things that appear to us while understanding gives us the necessary properties and relations of things in themselves. Both of these schools contend their own distinction between appearances and things in...
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