AStudyofMarriagesinSenseandSensibilitythroughCharacterAnalysis

毕业论文〔设计)1.IntroductionJane Austen (1775--1818)was one of the greatest and best loved novelists inEnglish literature.Austen has written six novels in all her life,which were Sense andSensibility (1811),Pride and Prejudice (1813),Mansfield Park (1814),Emma (1816),Northanger Abbey (1818)and Persuasion (1818).These six novels were all aboutlove and marriage.Sense and Sensibility was published in 1811,which was the first published noveland was one of the representative novels to show Austen's view on marriage.Thestory revolved around the Dashwood sisters,Elinor and Marianne.Elinor was sensibleand rational,while Marianne was romantic and emotional.The sisters have met a lotof difficulties on marriage.Finally,they both had a happy and successful marriage.Many people have done some researches on the novel from different aspects.Forexample,Zhou Qing said that Sense and Sensibility was the most typical novel thatrevealed Austen's point of view on marriage and had realistic meaning in moderntimes (2003:165).Liu Xiamin talked about the different characters of the Dashwoodsisters when analyzing the art of characterization in Sense and Sensibility.Elinorrepresented good sense while Marianne represented sensibility,but they could getwell along with each other (2005:125).Wang Xinchun has focused on analyzingMarianne's character changing from sensibility and emotion to good sense andrealism,because of Elinor's influence and her own suffering(2007:29).Besides,some people have done some researches on the characters and the2