Anyway, back to Sense and Sensibility which follows the lives and loves of sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Austen uses the sisters to illustrate the competing notions of reason, rationality, and rule-based judgments and passion, emotion, and desire. While these were very salient schools of thought at the time the book was written (late 18th century, during the onset of the Romantic period), the same competing principles of deliberate thought and implicit emotions are relevant today (just ask a social psychologist!!)As I was re-reading the novel, I remembered the main points of the plot-- who ends up with who, for example-- but, I had forgotten all of the details of the two sisters' romances and perspectives At one point, I even started second-guessing my memory of the plot because things were just not happening as quickly as I thought they would, so every page still managed to be a surprise.
