Submissive Nannies or Impressive Novelists
There’s no secret that in this time period, there was a clear difference in male and female expectations, women were seen as nothing more than objects. According to a book written by the Gale Group, Jane Austen was born on December 16th of 1775 in Steventon, England (Gale, 1998). Throughout her childhood, she traveled and moved quite frequently, especially after her father passed and she had to move with only her mother and her siblings. But with tragedy comes a brighter outcome, for example, encouraging Austen to write and focus her energy towards her work. The book also mentions, in the 3rd paragraph, how 14-year-old Austen started her journey as an author with writing her first novel Love and Friendship (Gale, 1998). After this novel was published and out for the public eye, people began to get a taste of her writing style, her sense of humor, and what she was capable of as an author. With that being said, we wanted another sample of what she had to offer, and with no doubt, she continued publishing more books such as Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and more. Jane Austen’s novels, mainly focusing on Sense and Sensibility, displayed how the culture of …show more content…
Marianne and Elinor, the main characters in Sense and Sensibility, being women helps emphasize the idea of women stepping out of their box that this century put them in. Instead of a man being front and center “in control”, they are women who are the ones making the decisions and leading their own lives. As a reader moves along through the countless other books Austen has written, they will begin to see a pattern of the use of either her sisters as inspiration when it comes to the characters or a dominant female major
There’s no secret that in this time period, there was a clear difference in male and female expectations, women were seen as nothing more than objects. According to a book written by the Gale Group, Jane Austen was born on December 16th of 1775 in Steventon, England (Gale, 1998). Throughout her childhood, she traveled and moved quite frequently, especially after her father passed and she had to move with only her mother and her siblings. But with tragedy comes a brighter outcome, for example, encouraging Austen to write and focus her energy towards her work. The book also mentions, in the 3rd paragraph, how 14-year-old Austen started her journey as an author with writing her first novel Love and Friendship (Gale, 1998). After this novel was published and out for the public eye, people began to get a taste of her writing style, her sense of humor, and what she was capable of as an author. With that being said, we wanted another sample of what she had to offer, and with no doubt, she continued publishing more books such as Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and more. Jane Austen’s novels, mainly focusing on Sense and Sensibility, displayed how the culture of …show more content…
Marianne and Elinor, the main characters in Sense and Sensibility, being women helps emphasize the idea of women stepping out of their box that this century put them in. Instead of a man being front and center “in control”, they are women who are the ones making the decisions and leading their own lives. As a reader moves along through the countless other books Austen has written, they will begin to see a pattern of the use of either her sisters as inspiration when it comes to the characters or a dominant female major