Sense and Sensibility (film) sumptuous townhouse. Sixteenth-century Montacute House in South Somerset was the setting for the Palmer estate of Cleveland House. Further scenes were shot at Compton Castle in Devon (Mr Willoughby's estate) and at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Composer Patrick Doyle, who had previously worked with his friend Emma Thompson in the films "Henry V", "Much Ado About Nothing", and "Dead Again", was hired to produce the music for "Sense and Sensibility". Asked by the director to select existing music or compose new "gentle" melodies, Doyle wrote a score that reflected the film's events. He explained, "You had this middle-class
Sense and Sensibility of society by finding a male protector," women such as Mrs. Ferrars and Lucy Steele demonstrate how women can "themselves become agents of repression, manipulators of conventions, and survivors." In order to protect themselves and their own interests, Mrs. Ferrars and Lucy Steele must participate in the same patriarchal system that oppresses them. In her chapter ""Sense and Sensibility:" Opinions Too Common and Too Dangerous" from her book "Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel," Claudia Johnson also performs a feminist reading of "Sense and Sensibility. She d"iffers from previous critics, especially the earliest ones, in her contention that "Sense