Women in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice

This is an abstract on the article Women in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen has attracted a great deal of critical attention in recent years. Although deep ischolar_mained in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Jane Austen's novels hold universal truth and are still applicable to people today. Jane Austen is a master at revealing the true nature of a character through their interactions with others. She makes her heroines interact with other characters in order to reveal their difference and unconventional ideas. The Dashwood sisters are almost as different as night and day. Elinor and Marianne personify the title Sense and Sensibility, the former representing female good sense and prudence, the later shows that impulsiveness and excess of feeling led into error and difficulty. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet's independent and questioning character is contrasted with Jane Bennet's trusting and objective conduct. She is more kind hearted than Elizabeth. Jane is well aware of the manners of the society in which she exists. Like Elizabeth she is also ashamed of the actions of her younger sisters, especially Lydia. Jane loves and admires Mr. Bingley not for his yearly allotment, but for his personal character.This paper attempts to study the treatment of women characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.