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Is Elinor ‘Hero’ Of the novel “Sense & Sensibility” ?
Name: Riddhi Jani
Roll no: 25
Paper: 5, The Romantic Literature
Semester: 2nd
Submitted to: Department of English
M.K.Bhavnagar University
About Novel
• Jane Austine’s first novel
• Romantic fiction.• The Dashwood
sisters- central characters.
Is Elinor ‘Hero’ ?
• The title “Sense and Sensibility”• Elinor- logical & rational• Reflection of Austine.
• No any male hero.• Male characters are marginalized keenly.
• Why Elinor is Hero ?• Her mind works as a male’s mind.• She is one and only ‘sense’ as hero.• Cries very less.• Does not show own emotion.
• Shelter of the family.• Cares without being melodramatic.
• In her relations with Edward also, she is in quite higher position.
“I hope, Marianne,” continued Elinor, “you do not consider him as deficient in general taste. Indeed, I think I may
say that you cannot, for your behaviour to him is perfectly
cordial, and if that were your opinion, I am sure you could
never be civil to him.”