Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen's first published work meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit.Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are sisters with opposing temperaments – Elinor is prudent rational and responsible; Marianne is passionate excitable and emotional. When Marianne is abandoned by an unscrupulous suitor she is disconsolate driving herself to a serious illness. Elinor meanwhile is dealing with her own betrayal but is stoic refusing to reveal her emotions to even those closest to her.Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money determine the outcomes of love and marriage. And to find happiness they must learn to accept that both sense and sensibility are intertwined.