This fantabulous classic was part of my read for the Everything
Austen Challenge. Due to my love for anything and everything
Victorian, I can say that it was only natural that I'd fall in love
with this timeless piece. This story of the very different Dashwood
sisters and their clashing tastes in their choices of men to love,
was endearing as well as very frustrating at times. Just when I
thought the obvious about Colonel Brandon, Edward or Willoughby-
the story took a different turn just to add to the intrigue of it
all; classic Austen at its best.
The story revolves around love-sickness, love-triangles, a marriage
of convenience, age and love, differences of choices and opinions,
wealth and social status, influence, family conflict, secret-filled
pasts and ultimately…and appropriately so: sense and sensibility.
I'm still not sure which of the sisters I concurred with the most;
Elinor or Marianne... Austen brilliantly shifts us from one
perception to the other while embracing both depending on the
situation. Ultimately the girls' reconciliation and love for
eachother blends the disparities of state helping them come to
terms with their own serenity. Love can then be found and accepted
under a new light.
Sense and Sensibility is a light read embedded with deeper meaning
that brings comfort, peaks interest and offers a colourful variety
of figures (the comical busy-body Miss Jennings is indeed very
special!) On the whole, this read meshed excitement, passion, drama
as well as 'sagesse' in the lives of two otherwise very ordinary
ladies of the times. The book doesn't skip a beat with essential
meanings and turn of events within every paragraph- With this one,
you won't want to blink:)
One can never get enough of elegantly written suspense-filled love
twists and pangs. At least I can't- Loved it!
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