What was the moral for Sense and Sensibility?

Answer 1

Sense and Sensibility is narrated mostly from Elinor's point of view.

Answer 2

It is the most important lesson she wanted to teach her female contemporaries: women had to value their common sense, their logic, their brain much more than their heart, their sensibility. They could not afford the luxury to let themselves carried away by emotions, and they could not let their inner feelings show as they risked becoming a sort of social outcasts.

Answer 3

The moral of "Sense and Sensibility" can be seen as the importance of finding a balance between emotions and rationality when navigating love and relationships. It emphasizes the consequences of yielding to extreme sensibility or excessive restraint, and ultimately encourages characters to strive for a middle ground to achieve happiness.

Answer 4

Sense and Sensibility has two, closely related and intertwined, plots that offer a contrast to each other. Both are stories of young women who fall in love, are disappointed, and find happiness and love in the end.

In the case of Elinor, it is a story of a woman of good sense, who is guided by her mind, who overcomes her disappointments, and who is ultimately united with the man she has loved, despite all odds.

In the case of Marianne, it is a story of a woman of romantic sensibilities, who is guided by honest emotions but without regard for reason, who is nearly overcome by her disappointment, and who finds happiness in the love of a man she had not found romantically attractive because she was able to recognize her mistakes.

It almost sounds like Pilgrim's Progress, the way I have described it, but it has all the attraction of a love story, which is what it is.

Answer 5

The moral of sense and sensibility is that good sense and honor should prevail over acute sensibility and emotion. Elinor represents sense and Marianne represents sensibility. Each is moved toward the other in the course of the novel.

Answer 6

Classical Romance