Name:
Goswami Gayatri Mahipatgiri
Paper:
5- The Romantic Literature
MA
–part -1-SEM -2
Roll
no.:09
Topic: Irony
and Style in Sense and Sensibility
Submitted to:
Department of English,
Smt. S. B.
Gardi
Maharaja
Krshnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
· Jane Austen was born in Hampshire,
the united kingdom December 16,1775
· Died July 18, 1817
· Genre : literature and fiction,
romance
Jane Austen works of romantic fiction, set
among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widdly read
writers in English literature.
Her realism and biting social
commentary commenting her historical importance among scholars and critics
Austen’s works critique the novels of
sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of
the transition to 19th century realism.
Austen lived her entire life as part
of a close knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed
gentry. She was educated primarily by
her father and older brother as well as
through her own reading .the steadfast support of her family was critical to
her development as a professional writer. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted
from her tanager years unfill she was about “35 years” old.
During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including
the fourth. from 1811 until 1816, with the release of sense and sensibility
.pride and prejudice, Mansfield park and Emma she achieved success as a
published writer ,she wrote two additional novels , Northanger abbey and
persuasion, both published posthumously
in 1818, and began a third ,wich was
eventually titled sandstone , but did before completing it.
Austen’s works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of
the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th
century realism. Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the
dependence of woman on marriage to secure social standing and economic
security.
Her work
brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime,
but the publication in 1869 of her nephew’s memoir of Jane Austen introduce her
to a become widely Accepted in academia as great English writer.
The second
half of the 20th century saw a proliferation.
“
Irony in sense and sensibility”:
· “she was a woman who spent her days
in sitting , nicely dressed, on a safe doing some long piece of needlework of
little use and no beauty , thinking more of her pug than her children ,but very
indulgent to the latter when it did not put herself to inconvenience.
· “Irony” is one of Austen’s most
haricot eristic and most discussed
literary techniques. She contrast the plain meaning of a statement with the comic, undermining the meaning of the original to create ironic isjunctions .in her juvenile works , she relies upon satire , the article is
about the genre. For the mythological creature, so satyr.
· “Satire” is
a genre of literature, and
sometimes graphic and performing arts. In
wich vices, fillies, abuses, and shortcoming are held up to ridicule, ideally
with the intent of shaming individualism, corporations, government or society itself,
into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be humorous ,its greater purpose is often constructive social
criticism , using wit as a weapon and as a tool to draw attention to both
particular and wider issues in society.
· A feature of satire is strong irony
or sarcasm in satire, irony is militant but parody , burlesque, exaggeration,
juxtaposition comparison , analogy , and
double Dendrite are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing.
“she relies upon satire ,parody , and
irony based on incongruity”
· Here mature novels employ irony to foregrounds
social hypocrisy .in particular Austen uses irony to critique the marriage
market.
· For example :
Perhaps
the most famous example of irony in Austen is the opening line of pride and prejudice.
‘it is
a truth universally acknowledged , that a single man be in want of a wife”. A
first glance the sentence is straightforward and plausible , but the plot of
the novel contradicts it:
It is women without fortunes who need
husbands and seek them out. By the end of novel ,the truth of the statement is acknowledge only by
a single character ,mrs. Bennet a mother sacking husbands for her daughters ,
rather than the entire world . Austen irony goes beyond the sentence level. As
Austen scholar Jan Fergus explain , “the
major structural device of ironies within the novel’s action wich ,like
parallels and contrasts , challenge the reader’s attention’s
and judgment throughout, and in the
end also engage his feelings.
Irony in Jan Austen’s novel :
The use of irony in Jane Austen’s novel:
In the context of Austen, irony is
best understood as a mode of expression
that calls into question the way
things appear. As Marvin mud rick
remark, ‘irony … consists and pretension, between being and seeming , between …man as he is and mass as a kind of relief from man’s involve met toward delusion and error’.
Austen, however, used irony for
satiric as well as comic effect. Often, then the ironic comments in her novels
do more than exposed her character’s misguided
assumption ; irony helps her condom the social norms that helps foster
such beliefs.
In Austen’s novels appear in immamorable ways ,it is
occur during a verbal exchange for instance, in sense and sensibility , this is
how Elinor defends colonel Borden’s use of
a bland waistcoat .that he been only in a violent fevet, you would not have
despised him half so much .
For example:
In Emma,
the fact that Emma blithely idealized a portrait of Harriet smith underscores
the fact that Emma imagines much that is not true about her Newfield.
Austen’s
irony may also depend upon a disparity between what can be seen and what is
invisible. Willoughby’s person and air are equal to what for the hero of a
favorite’s story’; however, he behaves like a cad.
ü Austen uses irony as a means of moral
and social satire.
ü Her sentences ,while usually simple and direct , contra
ü Contain within them the basic
contradictions with reveal profound insight into character and theme.
ü This is most obvious in her blunt character
sketches.
ü Her irony ranges from the gentle to
the severe.
ü It is quite ironic scene of the
novel.
ü Jane Austen has used irony to bring
out the inward consciousness and hypocrisy of individuals and society of the
time
ü These all aspects of ‘irony’ can be
found in the novel sense and sensibility by Jane Austin.
Austin’s portrayal of sir john Middleton and Lady
Middleton is also ironic in the sense that Austen highlights their idle
existence.
v Austen’s
writing style in sense and sensibility :
Jane Austen is considered to be one
the world’s greatest novelist .the earliest novel, sense and sensibility, is
the story two sister who must grow in opposite ways.
ü Austen distinct style is evident
throughout
The
novel .Austen creates a world that is indirect but realistic .the reader must
evident throughout the novel.
Sense
and sensibility in writing style of Jane
Austen:
Parody and
Burlesque
|
Irony
|
Conversation and language
|
Genre
|
Realism
|
Free indirect speech
|
Parody and
Burlesque:
In Northanger Abbey, Austen parodies the Gothic
literary style that was popular during the 1790s. Pride and Prejudice which
begun as an Epistolary novel. Parody and Burlesques of popular 18th
century genres, such as the sentimental novel.
Irony:
She contrasts the plain meaning of a statement with
the comic, underling the meaning of the original to create ironic disjunction.
Free indirect
speech:
Austen is most renewed for her development of free
indirect speech, a technique pioneered by 18th century novelists
Henry Fielding and Frances Burney.
Conversation
and language:
“Then” , observed Elizabeth “you must comprehend a
great deal in your idea of an accomplished woman”. Conversation contain many
short sentences, question and answer pairs and rapid exchange between
characters.
Realism:
The extent to wich Austen’s novels are realistic is
vigorously debated by scholars. The lack of physical description in her novels
lends them an air of unreality. In Austen novels, as page notes there is a
conspicuous absence of words referring to physical perception the world of
shape and coloure and sensuous response.
Genre:
Jane Austen famously wrote to her nephew James Edward
Austen that his ‘strong, manly, spirited sketches full of aboriety and glow’
would not fit on the little bit of irony on which work with so fine a brush, as
produce little effect affect after much labour.
Jane Austen distinctive quality different type of the
use writing style in the novel. Literary style relies on a combination of
parody, burlesque, irony, free indirect speech, and a degree of realism.
She uses to parody and burlesque for comic effect and
to critique the portrayal of women in 18th century sentimental and Gothic novels. Austen extends her critique by highlighting social hypocrisy
through irony. She often create an ironic tone through free indirect speech
critics believe Austen’s characters have psychological depth informs their
views regarding her realism. While some scholars argue that Austen fails into a
tradition of realism because of her finally executed portrayal of a individual
character and her emphasis on “everyday” others connected that her characters
lack a depth of feeling compared with earlier works and that is combined with
Austen polemical tone, place her outside the realist tradition.
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