Name :- Pritiba B. Gohil

Roll No. :- 21

Course No. 5 :- The Romantic Literature

Presentation Topic :- Gender Stereotypes In Sense and Sensibility

Enrolment No :- PG 14101016

M.A. English Semester - 2

Batch Year :- 2014 - 2016

Submitted to :-

Department of English

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen

Jane Austen • Jane Austen was born on 16

December 1775 and died in 18 July 1817.

• She was an English Novelist.

• Jane Austen is a world renowned English author.

• Jane Austen remains as popular as ever and is revered as much as any literary figure in the history of the English language.

• Novels

1. Sense and Sensibility (1811)

2. Pride and Prejudice (1813)

3. Mansfield Park (1814)

4. Emma (1815)

5. Northanger Abbey (1818)

6. Persuasion (1818)

What Is Gender Stereotypes :-• Gender stereotypes are simplistic

generalizations about the gender attributes, differences, and roles of individuals and/or groups.

• Stereotypes can be positive or negative, but they rarely communicate accurate information about others.

• When people automatically apply gender assumptions to others regardless of evidence to the contrary, they are perpetuating gender stereotyping.

• Traditionally, the female stereotypic role is to marry and have children. The male stereotypic role is to be the financial provider.

Gender Stereotypes means NO EQUALITY between Male And Female :-

How Gender Stereotypes Plays It’s Role In

Sense and Sensibility :-

• To talk about gender roles in Austen‘s time from a

21st century point of view is, to say the least, a

difficult endeavour.

• The issue of women and men‘s social and inner life

is one which is approached by the author with care

and respect towards both tradition and new ideas, in

a time between Classicism and Romanticism.

• This manner can be easily spotted in her novel

“Sense and Sensibility“ especially through the

characters of Elinor and Marianne.

Title of Sense and Sensibility :-• Jane Austen wrote the first draft of

the novel in the form of a novel-in-

letters sometime around 1795

when she was about 19 years old,

and gave it the title Elinor and

Marianne. She later changed the

form to a narrative and the title to

Sense and Sensibility.

• "Sense" in the book means good

judgment or prudence, and

“Sensibility" means sensitivity or

emotionality.

• "Sense" is identified with the

character of Elinor, while

“Sensibility" is identified with the

character of Marianne.

• This is the story of Elinor and

Marianne Dashwood, sisters who

respectively represent the "sense"

and "sensibility" of the title.

• We should first stop to discuss the title itself, which actually suggests a form of the well accepted over the years, conventional gender opposition – the reasonable men and the emotional women.

• Jane Austen however takes this conception and gently blends both of the qualities into one female character as if to show women of her time that they can be more and have control in a society, which greatly restraints them, by first obtaining control over themselves.

• Thus she instead creates the opposition of two young women – the over spirited Marianne and the self controlled Elinor.

• To make matters clear we should, however, say that :-

“Austen does... not condone an exclusion of sensibility entirely; rather, in Elinor’s character Austen is arguing that

women, and even men, can still allow themselves to feel without finding their “understandings neglected.””

• Indeed it would be a bit too easy to label either

one of the heroines as a representative of only one

of these characteristics.

• Elinor‘s seeming lack of feelings is actually a

screen for a complexed but contained nature and

the hurricane of emotions that Marianne

expresses is timed through sense in the end of the

novel.

• And it is the harmony between sense and

sensibility, between social conduct and moral

virtue, between appearance and inner life that

Austen is strifing to promote in all her characters

be they male or female.

Movies/TV Series that break the gender stereotype

now a days :-

• Kahaani

• Mardaani

• Mary Kom