She has displayed her view of family rituals and social customs of the Victorian era in most of her works ("Sense and Sensibility"). ... In the book Sense and Sensibility Austen explores the customs of courtship, marriage, and lineage. ... The first family depicted in the book Sense and Sensibility is the Dashwood family. ... So, respectively, they represent the title, Elinor is Sense and Marianne is sensibility (Hill). ... Sense and Sensibility is a book full of satirical family rituals and social customs. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This passage gives us, the reader, an all-encompassing view of the narrator and his characteristics and relationships with other characters in the book. ... This does not lend to a sense of accuracy in terms of emotions, as thisidealized image? (p101) relies on his emotional sensibility, which throughout the novel is shown to be very dull. ... The narrator is not only detached from the emotions of other characters; he is removed even from the comedy in the lives of others. ... What is interesting in this particular passage is that the narrator, by describing events that tend to elicit some ...

• Word Count: 726
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• Grade Level: High School