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1、Sense Rather Than Sensibility摘要理智与情感是一本描述达什伍德姐妹如何通过心中理智与情感的完美结合来寻找自身幸福的小说。在阅读此小说的时候，让我不禁去想如果这两姐妹并非如书中所说的通过理智与情感的完美结合来寻找幸福，而是从理智与情感中只选择一者，她们将会有怎样不同的结局？在爱情的世界里，理智与情感，究竟哪一个更贴合实际？本文将通过分别对这两姐妹：埃丽诺与玛丽安，进行分析并设想如果她们只追求情感而并非理智，将会得到怎样的结局。通过分析后，我们也许能找出在爱情世界里究竟是什么最贴合实际。关键词：理智；情感；实际iSense Rather Than Sensibility
2、Table of ContentsAbstract.i摘要 .ii1. Introduciton .12. Brief Introduction .22.1 A brief introduction to Jaen Austen .22.1 A brief introduction to Sense and Sensibility.33. The Battle Between Sense and Sensibility .53.1 The story of Elinor .53.2 The story of Marianne .64. Imagination on Inference.94.1
3、 My imagination of Elinor.94.2 My imagination of Marianne.105. Conclusion.11Reference.12Acknowledgements. 131. IntroductionJane Austen is a British writer who wrote her first novel Sense and Sensibility in 1811. The story is about Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr. Dashwood, how they encounte
4、r the sense and sensibility of life and love after all the events theyve been through in the novel. Impetuous Marianne Dashwood tumbles into a fairytale romance that goes sour, and her practical older sister Elinor copes with the familys financial problems while hiding her own frustrated romantic ho
5、pes. These two sisters both find their happiness and have a happy ending. But during my reading, it makes me wonder about sense and sensibility, they overcame every heartbreak and found love, but what if they didnt have enough sense and sensibility in their hearts when they encountered all the unexp
6、ected events? Would they find the true love eventually? Would they have a happy ending and get what they wanted? Maybe its fun but necessary to have an imagination about Dashwood sisters if they listen to their heart and do not have any sense at all. This article will give a brief introduction about
7、 Jane Austen and her first novel Sense and Sensibility, then will discuss the story of Dashwood sisters according to the novel Sense and Sensibility and try to have an imagination about their ending if they do not have sense at all based on their characteristics. Eventually we would find out what is
8、 the more realistic in ones relationship. 2. Brief introduction2.1 A brief introduction to Jane Austen Jane Austen, came into the world on December,16th 1775. Born to Reverend George Austen of the Steventon rectory and Cassandra Austen of the Leigh family (Spence,2003:5) . Edmund Wilson once said: “
9、In a hundred years, Britain has had several interesting revolution, the renovation of literary taste almost all the writers of reputation, exception of Shakespeare and Jane Austen enduring.” Jane Austen was to be George Austens seventh child and only the second daughter. Its Janes great fortune to b
10、e born into a supremely happy and resourceful family. George Austen took pupils, the sons of the local gentry, who were educated with his own children and were boarded in the house. Cassandra Austen, a greater reader and had a gift for writing verse, was a thrifty and sensible mother, she kept a few
11、 cows at Steventon and would certainly have had a well-stocked poultry-yard. Having good parents, the Austen children lived in an environment of open learning, creativity and dialogueJane has the closest relationship with her sister Cassandra, remembered many years later by their niece Anna: Their s
12、isterly affection for each other could hardly be exceeded This attachment was never interrupted or weakened. They lived in the same home and shared the same bed-room till separated by death Cassandra was the colder and calmer in disposition, she was always prudent and well judging, but with less out
13、ward demonstration of feeling and less sunniness of temper than Jane posed Cassandra had the merit of having her temper always under command; Jane had the happiness of a temper that never required to be commanded (Lefory,2001:3).Maybe the temper of Dashwood sisters from Sense and Sensibility was bas
14、ed on the temper of Austen sisters.Despite Janes youthful popularity and the romantic novels she wrote, all her relationships with men came to nothing. Her obstinate heart forbade her to marry except for love (Myer,1997:103). Being single all her life, with Cassandras never-failing support and a strong family loyalty, Jane Austen wrote six novels which highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride
