Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggles of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor's character is one os Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple os the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate nature in the interests of survival.









