Two opposite personalities, sense and sensibility ,which do you prefer? I think it’s really very difficult to make a decision. It is humor. We are born with such characteristics. Emotional person is the sea,which shows her temper emotionally,sometimes calm, sometimes crazy. However, the rational one is the stream, which running through the montains and forests. She seldom presents her emotions publicly. But we could not judge which is better, just according to this. In Sense and Sensibility Book, Marianne is the sea, expressing her feeling bravely. Elinor is the stream, setting her love to Edward aside quitely.
In the novel, Marianne and Elinor, which do you like more? In accordance with people’s tastes, the choice is different. Marianne is a brave girl, who can igonre local people’s rumore to love Willoughby. It is very precious. She breaks up the limitation to brave and sincere lovers in that peiod. Whereas Willoughby is not brave enough to abandon everthing to love. He owns nothing but love. How could he gives his sweetheart happiness , if no wealth to invest? He must cinsider this problem. And it troubles him a lot. He thinks twice then determins to leave Marianne. He has no alternative but to breaks his beloved heart. Can we say Marianne loves the wrong man? We could not sure say “no”. To some degree, his decision can be wise. If one can not give his love’s steady life, who can sure their future life is happy? so we should not completely deny him. Willoughby is emotional, but also rational. Marianne is sensible, so that she could not accept this reality easily.
In Sense and Sensibily Book,her sister, Elinor is a warm—hearted girl, always thinking for others, instead ignoring herself. Thus we can guess how tiresome she is. Her love is not farewell. She and Edward love each other. She just puts it at a corner. Edward mistakes it as friendship, so that their love become more and more vague. Because of a series of coinsidents, they get together. We can sure it is Jane’s arrangements. She encourages us not to renounce true love. Only persistent to it can we win. To a certain extent, her willingness is precious. How should we recommend on her? We should praise her for her selflessness, or shout at her for her silliness. One who does not understand how to harvest love, is not worthy praisal. Love will not come to you itself. You should attempt to gain it. Can we say she is rational? Maybe to a certain degree, she is. But love can not totally be obtained by rational decisions. It is selfish. Therefore, we should know when to be sensible and when to be rational.
So my friends, in Sense and Sensiblity Book ,what have you learned? What types of love do you want to get,vagorous or like the proverb says “Love me little, love me long”? It is your choice. However, sense and sensibility shoule both be taken into consideration. I wish all lovers could harvest happiness. Good luck to you, my friends.
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