Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are sisters. Both are intelligent, sensitive, charming, and beautiful, but there the similarities end. Elinor values propriety and common sense; she is prudent and cautious with a strong sense of duty. Marianne, by contrast, has extravagant Romantic ideas; she is excessive and spontaneous. Both sisters fall in love early in the story, but both love stories are problematic. In this brilliant novel, Jane Austen explores two different ways of thinking and acting – the ‘sense’ of Elinor and the ‘sensibility’ of Marianne – as they try to find happiness in a world full of hypocrisy, vulgarity, and self-interest.
Elinor et Marianne Dashwood sont sœurs ; toutes deux sont intelligentes, sensibles, fascinantes et belles, mais à part ceci elles ont des caractères et des aspirations très différentes. Dans ce roman célèbre, Jane Austen explore deux manières différentes de penser et d’agir – le bons sens d’Elinor et la sensibilité de Marianne – et nous raconte comment les protagonistes tentent de trouver le bonheur dans un monde plein d’hypocrisie, de vulgarité et d’égoïsme.
