Use a slideshow program (such as powerpoint) or another appropriate format to develop a presentation on jane austen’s life and work, the social conventions of the era, and the themes you expect to find in sense and sensibility. deliver your finished presentation to your classmates.

Here is just an idea on how to organize your presentation.

Slide 1-Jane Austen’s life and work.  

Jane Austen was born December 16, 1775 in  Steventon, Hampshire, England. She died July 18, 1817 in  Winchester, Hampshire. She was the seventh child to Reverend Austen.Both her parents encouraged their children to learn.She wrote extensively about love, relationships but  she never married. She published four novels during her lifetime:  Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma(1815).Her two last novel Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1817,    

Slide 2-The social conventions of the era .

Men and women were considered to have completely different natures. There was a clear–cut  between the gender roles, especially of the upper and middle classes. In other words, 19th century social conventions were mostly full of stereotypes:

Men enjoyed a more public sphere and were viewed as powerful, worldly, logical, sexual,independent, rational and ambitious whereas women were  expected to be  weak, emotional,passive, timid, domestic, illogical and dependent; always restricted to private and familiar spheres

Slide 3: The themes you expect to find in Sense and Sensibility  

I expect to find one of the themes to be society and class. In such a stratified society as the 19th century. A second one is women and their stereotypes. I expect Jane Austen  to portray real women who are much more modern than their times.

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