Sense and Sensibilit

Sense and Sensibility

I like this book better than Pride and Prejudice because it's realistic. Eleanor and Marianne were both kind, lovely, pretty, intelligent girls, but their personalities were very different. Elinor was Stoic, Marianne vivacious. Elinor prefers the reserved Edward, while Marianne prefers the handsome Willoughby. In the end, Eleanor and Edward are married, Marianne also recognize the true character of Willoughby, choose the honest and mature Colonel Brandon, everything shows that this seems to be a happy ending. But is this really the case?

No matter how much the characters praise Edward, I can't warm to him. He keeps his engagement to Lucy a secret, his flirtatious and frequent encounters with Eleanor, his indecisiveness, and his powerful mother, sister, and once-fiancee Lucy. For Lucy and his family almost broke up, nothing, and Lucy moved on after love, immediately proposed to Eleanor. I couldn't understand what Edward had done. He kept silent when his sister sneered at Eleanor, and he kept silent when Lucy triumphantly demonstrated to her. If Lucy hadn't taken another wife, he might have kept his mouth shut.

Eleanor, as the eldest, must be calm and use reason to dissuade her mother and sister when their sensitive mother and impulsive sister allow their emotions to dominate their actions. When Eleanor found out about Edward's engagement to Lucy, even though her heart was broken and all her hopes were dashed, she could not wait to hold her mother and sister in her arms and cry, she still kept her promise to Lucy and kept the secret without even letting anyone know. Elinor had romantic feelings, but remained lucid all the time: "As desirable as the idea of fidelity may be, as desirable as it may be to say that one's happiness is wholly dependent upon such and such, it ought not to be -- inappropriate and impossible." It was painfully sober.

As for Colonel Brandon, I have always felt that his affection for Marianne was tinged with some tenderness, sympathy, and remembrance of his first love, which perhaps he could not distinguish more from regret.

But Marianne, after Willoughby's deception and betrayal, and in the face of Colonel Brandon's ardent love and the encouragement of her friends and relatives, had to swallow up her expectation of romantic love and marry Colonel Brandon. But how much of her feeling for Colonel Brandon was gratitude, and how much love.

2021-06-28

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