A sensibilidade de Marianne Dashwood: um olhar feminista sobre a personagem de Jane Austen

Abstract

This work is inserted in the field of English Literature and aims to analyze the behaviour of the character Marianne Dashwood in the novel Sense and Sensibility ([1811]2012), written by Jane Austen, and to demonstrate, through an observation of her sentimental conduct, that there is a repudiation from the character in relation to the standard of behaviour expected from women in nineteenth-century England. Based on the texts Theory of Moral Sentiments, by Adam Smith ([1759] 2002) and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft ([1792] 2004), this study explores the representation of the female condition in this book by Austen and the way the character contributes to a critical and feminist view of women's role in that society by means of her extreme and critical sensibility.