Sense And Sensibility

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relies on instinct, typical values of the Romantic Movement. Elinor’s sense, on the other hand, reflects “the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which had advocated a commitment to reason and considered and other source of conviction irrational.”
Marianne, says of love, "To love is to burn.", and Elinor says: "I do not attempt to deny I think very highly of him." However both characters manage to find love in a culture that limits communication to talk of the weather and the roads. A culture in which people are taught to be impersonal.
Late in the novel, a reflective Marianne tells Elinor that she had compared her behaviour "with what it ought to have been; I compare it with yours," and that she found her own behaviour lacking: "I saw ... nothing but a series of imprudence towards myself and want of kindness to others. I saw that my own feelings had prepared my sufferings." Acknowledging her errors, Marianne decides to imitate Elinor's reserve and ...

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