paper - 5 the romantic literature - sense and sensibility and sea monsters
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Name : Vora Kiran Shamaldas.
Class : M.A Sem. 2Roll no. 13
Paper no. 5 The Romantic LiteratureTopic : Sense and Sensibility and Sea monsters
Email Id : [email protected] to : Smt. S.B. Gardi
Department of English M. K. Bhavnagar
University.
Sense and Sensibility
and Sea
MonstersBy Ben H. Winters
Author • Benjamin Allen H. "Ben" Winters is an American author, journalist, teacher and playwright
• Winters was born in Maryland in U.S.A.• Winters was first known as the author
of the 2009 New York Times bestseller Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.
• Author of several novels for adults—including the Edgar-award winning The Last Policeman and its sequels , and two for kids—The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman and The Mystery of the Missing Everything
Sense and sensibility and the monsters
• Sense and sensibility and sea monsters is a parody novel.
• It is a mash up story that contains elements of original text Sense and sensibility (1811) and some common tropes from sea monster stories.
• Country – United States• Language – English • Genre – Comic novel, historical
fiction, horror, thriller, black comedy
• It was first published by Quirk Books on September 15, 2009.
Plot• The story follows plot of the original
novel, but this novel is an alternate universe version of Regency era in United kingdom, where an event known as “The Alternation” has turned the creatures of the Sea against the Mankind.
• This unexplained event produces numerous “Sea Monsters” including Sea Serpents, Giant Lobsters, and Man eating Jellyfish.
• Can the Dashwood sisters win over meddlesome matriarchs and immoral monsters to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels?
story• Henry Dashwood lives on his
estate, Norland Park, with his second wife and their three daughters. Elinor, Marianne and Margaret.
• Dashwood embarks on a journey to discovers the source of alternation but is attacked by a Hammerhead shark.
• Upon his death the estate passes not to Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters but rather to Mr. Dashwood’s son John, the child of his first wife.
• Elinor has on-again off again flirtation with the scholar Edward Ferrars who is seeking to figure out what caused the Alteration to begin with.
• The family forced to move to the islands owned by Sir John Middleton. There Marianne falls for a dashing explorer Willoughby.
• While at the same time attracting the unwanted attentions of the older and dreadfully disfigured Colonel Brandon
• Fanny, Edward’s sister makes it clear that their wealthy mother would never consider Edward and poor Elinor’s marriage.
• After that Edward’s behavior towards Elinor changes, he behaves more reserved and formal with her.
• Marianne didn’t go well with Colonel’s age 35. when Willoughby saves her from an octopus attack she was instantly attracted to him.
• But he had to go away to undersea city of sub-marine station beta, leaving Marianne heartbroken.
• Both sisters decide to hide their sorrow for the good of family.
• To cheer up the two Dashwood sisters Mrs. Jennings takes them to sub-marine station Beta.
• There Marianne tries to renew her courtship with Willoughby, only to find him cold. He leaves her when a giant lobster attacks, she demands an answer from Willoughby, she gets one, that he is engaged to very wealthy miss Grey.
Climax• The island suddenly rises from the
ocean, it turns out to be not an island at all but a monstrous sea-beast known as Leviathan, awakened from a long slumber and hungry for all sorts of marine life.
• But the characters survive from their sudden upheaval from their former island home.
• Edward reconciles with his mother and asks Elinor to marry him, she happily agrees.
Happy ending• Marianne resolves to become a marine engineer so that she
can design a new sub-marine station Gamma.• Marianne surprisingly falls for Colonel Brandon and the two
eventually marry.• Willoughby got killed by Fate! At the end he realizes that had
he married to Marianne for love instead of miss grey for money, he would have attained both love and money. But now he is left to ponder what might have been.
Winters vs. Austen• The story line fairly closely follows Jane Austen’s original story, but
(obviously) not completely. In this story, Winters took some liberties with the story line to follow along with the sea monster narrative.
• The Winters creativity in following Austen’s original story is enjoyable, but yet making it completely different from original text.
• Winters was very clever in how he kept to the Regency period and wove around the original narrative.
• It seemed to be everyday life to have people eaten by sea monsters, but Winters was a little too graphic.
• There is a lot of gushing blood, dismembered body parts and decapitations!