... in her own sadness over Bingley's apparent abandonment of her; and a more general ability to submit her emotions to the demands of rationality and self-control. Compared with Marianne in *Sense and Sensibility* - also the sister of the book's main female protagonist - Jane appears particularly praiseworthy. Marianne too is abandoned by a charming young man in similarly mysterious circumstances, but unlike Jane, she ... her unhappiness to control her life to the extent that she nearly dies - literally - of grief. Jane's bravery in distress is similar to that of Elinor, the heroine of *Se...

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... much of her dedication, later on, when her novels became well known, after her death (Lauber 3). In her lifetime, Jane wrote 6 major novels including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. Her writings were not limited to novels; she wrote plays, versus, short novels and a basic cornucopia or literary expressions. ... there were feelings besides those of the heart to be detailed, and he was not more eloquent on the subject of tenderness than of pride. His sense of her inferiority "of its being a degradation "of the family obstacles which judgment had always opposed to incli...

• Word Count: 4144
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... a person, establishing Elizabeth's individualistic qualities and illustrating that she is in fact an individual in society, even to the extend that Darcy himself recognizes that she is endowed with sense and sensibility and radically different from any other woman he has encountered. Elizabeth proves that she is a woman particular to her age and society, yet is still different and separate from it ... ...

• Word Count: 2566
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate