Sense

The State Theatre Company South Australia reinvented Jane Austen’s classic Sense and Sensibility in a modernised 2018 production that has the audience’s eye’s glued to the stage and leaving with aching cheeks from endless belly laughs. This fun and heart-warming adaptation still retains the classic quaintness of Jane Austen’s gossip filled world of late 18th century England. The State Theatre Company put a spin on the classic 18th century English grand style and flair. From the baby blue and…

know what is best for them and have their ideal path planned out. However, in reality, what one desires is not always the outcome. Being open-minded to change is important in order to sufficiently handle those situations. There are several scenes in Sense and Sensibilities that illustrate the idea that good things can come out of situations in which one never thought they would desire. The main example is the constant mind changing that Marianne faces throughout the film. She meets Col.…

In her Sense and Sensibility, author Jane Austen uses the titular values to analyze the societal institution to which the female characters are restrained. This critique features the presentation of one’s emotions and sensitivities, but more important than what is expressed, however, is what is not. Through the limitations of the period’s etiquette, Austen illustrates that the restraint of one’s tongue may aid in verbal combat, but may also hold one linguistically captive. Similarly, poet…

confrontation and the societal superior: her “superior claims on Edward” forces Elinor into a “silent amazement” while securing her future alliance with a man with the wealth and status that Elinor lacks (Sense and Sensibility 112, 104). Elinor’s perception of Lucy’s underlying motive and her straight-laced sense of decorum leads to her forfeit in the form of silence and false propriety. Yet,…

spoken by James Allen in, As A Man Thinketh, are validated in Jane Austen’s, Sense and Sensibility. The novel takes the readers on an adventure through the lives of Marianne and Elinor Dashwood on their quest for happiness. Both Marianne and Elinor are faced with challenges in relation to love. Elinor is the mature, eldest sister who is associated with sense, while Marianne is more sentimental and is linked to sensibility. Sense is representative of self-governance, reason, and acute analysis,…

Above all else, Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility teaches us that nothing is sacrosanct. With such a heavy emphasis on the importance of marriage for young women of the eighteenth century, the novel suggests that there is an unspoken agreement that their romantic relationships are open to speculation and scrutiny among family and friends due to an interest in having a say in such marriages. Especially in the romantic relationships between Marianne and Willoughby, Elinor and Edward, and Lucy…

Of the many societal struggles this passage from Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (1811) depicts, the condition of women and femininity stands at its forefront. From a contemporary lens, the passage details the drastically differing and clashing aspects of the feminine ideal. Women in Austen’s society battled amongst themselves to secure economically prosperous marriages, which in turn required a massive degree of emotional control. Between these struggles and empathetic trauma, women…

Sense and Sensibility is the show about Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, sisters who separately speak to the “sense” and “sensibility” of the title. To make the show realistic light play vital role. If there is not any changes of lighting, Sense and Sensibility would not have powerful impacts on viewers. To have powerful impacts, we need to know how light function and how we can control the qualities of light. For the scene one, starting of show with costume dropping it was great to know how light…

characters by making them obsessed with social distinctions, and reveals their foolishness. In Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen uses satire to expose the most appalling parts of the society. She is able to narrate and develop a plot in which the most selfish characters find the most…

The Sixth Sense, a film by M. Night Shyamalan, director and screenwriter, deserves no less than 4 stars because of its great use of characters, and the sound and lighting used throughout the movie. The Sixth Sense, a thriller and a ghost story, is portrayed as much more than just that. Perhaps it’s the chilliness and coldness in the air that make you just want to shiver. Or maybe it’s the way that they use almost direct silence to add to the scary feeling. Maybe it’s the lighting that always…