'Elinor and Marianne' was the original title of which novel?
Elinor Dashwood Elinor Dashwood Elinor Dashwood is a fictional character and the protagonist of Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility". In this novel, Austen analyses the conflict between the opposing temperaments of sense (logic, propriety, and thoughtfulness, as expressed in Austen's time by neo-classicists), and sensibility (emotion, passion, unthinking action, as expressed in Austen's time by romantics). In this conflict, Elinor, a reserved, practical, and thoughtful young woman who embodies the "sense" of the title, is juxtaposed to her flighty younger sister Marianne who embodies "sensibility". Elinor is described as possessing a coolness of judgement and strength of understanding which qualifies her
Elinor Dashwood reader with the impression that Elinor's views are the correct ones. Throughout the novel, Elinor subjects herself to relentless self-scrutiny and self-discipline, what she calls her "self-command", as to control her consciousness to accept only "certain thoughts and feelings". In the last chapters, Elinor turns her "self-command" onto Marianne and her mother, leading her to tell Marianne she is an example to be followed, with Marianne saying that from now on, "my feelings shall be governed". Irvine wrote the novel never tells the reader what sort of books Elinor reads, but in the last chapters, Elinor's voice sounds remarkably like