Sense and Sensibility

'Revolutions of interest have occurred for several times in the history of British literature, and the changes in literary taste have influenced the reputation of almost all writers, except for the long-standing fame of Shakespeare and Jane Austen.'Edmund Wilson, a famous American critic, once appraised Jane Austenin this way. Sense and Sensibility is one of her works with the most sense of humor.The novel portrays the complicated love and marriage stories ofElinor and Marianne, sisters in a country gentlemen family. The elder sister Elinoris good at controlling emotion by senses while the younger Marianne is romantically inclined to love. Hence, they react in opposite ways in front of love...By virtue of this humorouscomparison between sense and sensibility, the novel raises the thought-provokingissue of moral and behavioral regulation. This book,which has been brought to big screen for times, is a sister novel of Austen's another book, Pride and Prejudice. A film directed by Ang Lee, a famous Taiwanese-born American film director,duplicated the originalnoveland won great reputation and awards, including nominated as Oscar Best Picture, won the Golden Bear at the Berlin InternationalFilm Festival, Best Drama and Best Screenplay of Golden Globe, showing the widespread influence of this novel.