Sense and Sensibility

This is the story of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, sisters who respectively represent the "sense" and "sensibility" of the title. With their mother, their sister Margaret, and their stepbrother John, they make up the Dashwood family. In this work Jane Austen presents her concern in moralistic points, by writing her novel in an antithetical way, giving its title Sense and Sensibility. She represents neoclassical, dualistic moral world where the values of reason and restraint will finally become victorious over the impulsive, romantic sensibility.