A Vindication Of Woman And Sense And Sensibility Analysis
Wollstonecraft and Austen
Common themes occur throughout A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Sense and Sensibility; both showing how “sense” gets valued over sensibility within a women in the Romantic era, illustrating how one can learn from their literary pieces. One can easily miss the small, veiled but overall monumental conceptualizations both authors are implicitly trying to depict. The authors introduce ideas of how women, even in their homes, spend time conforming to social structures. On the other hand, males are “superior” and make the decisions because women have become too “delicate” after lacking basic fundamental rights. Causing women to be naive in the social prejudices that the society implies …show more content…
These type of men don’t actually care for the girl, they just chase them for their own interest. In the story, Jane gives us this character Eliza, who Colonel Brandon shares their tragic yet foretelling story to Marianne’s possible future. After receiving the letter that made Marianne sad, Brandon reveals to Elinor, “ Your sister, I hope, cannot be offended,’ said he, ‘by the resemblance I have fancied between her and my poor disgraced relation. Their fates, their fortunes… He had left the girl whose youth and innocence he had seduced, in a situation of the utmost distress, with no credible home, no help, no friends, ignorant of his address! He had left her, promising to return; he neither returned, nor wrote” (Austen 203). In a sense being a similar situation depicting how Marianne can learn from this sad misfortune at which Willoughby already caused. The two women in this story aren’t uneducated for their time. It’s more of a moral lesson to where Marianne learns from actual life experiences that she undergoes and the same occuring theme gets foretold with other characters within the story. This shows that women not only can get education by going to school and being educated but also can learn from other women and try to better themselves and not fall into this naive oppressive idea that women are just
Common themes occur throughout A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Sense and Sensibility; both showing how “sense” gets valued over sensibility within a women in the Romantic era, illustrating how one can learn from their literary pieces. One can easily miss the small, veiled but overall monumental conceptualizations both authors are implicitly trying to depict. The authors introduce ideas of how women, even in their homes, spend time conforming to social structures. On the other hand, males are “superior” and make the decisions because women have become too “delicate” after lacking basic fundamental rights. Causing women to be naive in the social prejudices that the society implies …show more content…
These type of men don’t actually care for the girl, they just chase them for their own interest. In the story, Jane gives us this character Eliza, who Colonel Brandon shares their tragic yet foretelling story to Marianne’s possible future. After receiving the letter that made Marianne sad, Brandon reveals to Elinor, “ Your sister, I hope, cannot be offended,’ said he, ‘by the resemblance I have fancied between her and my poor disgraced relation. Their fates, their fortunes… He had left the girl whose youth and innocence he had seduced, in a situation of the utmost distress, with no credible home, no help, no friends, ignorant of his address! He had left her, promising to return; he neither returned, nor wrote” (Austen 203). In a sense being a similar situation depicting how Marianne can learn from this sad misfortune at which Willoughby already caused. The two women in this story aren’t uneducated for their time. It’s more of a moral lesson to where Marianne learns from actual life experiences that she undergoes and the same occuring theme gets foretold with other characters within the story. This shows that women not only can get education by going to school and being educated but also can learn from other women and try to better themselves and not fall into this naive oppressive idea that women are just