Irony and style in Sense and Sensibility
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. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the fourth. from 1811 until 1816, with the release of sense and sensibility.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.
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.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:
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 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.Austin’s portrayal of sir john Middleton and Lady Middleton is also ironic in the sense that Austen highlights their idle existence.
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.Austen distinct style is evident throughout.The novel .Austen creates a world that is indirect but realistic .the reader must evident throughout the novel.
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