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English Literature Katerina Siriou Presentation on Jane Austen's "Sense an Sensibility" Theme: "Class, Society and Politics" Class, society, and politics in the home, on an interpersonal level among the characters, are themes of outmost importance in the novel "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen. In this short essay, we shall discuss these themes in relation to the characters, as presented in the novel. Austen presents these social conditions throughout the story, as they were dominant in the society of her time. Laws surrounding inheritance, and property, social etiquette, and money matters in a time were gender limitations were very apparent, signified a person's position in the social scale. The Dashwood women, as they appear in "Sense and sensibility", suddenly find themselves in a humiliating situation, when the mother, Mrs. Dashwood, becomes a widow. They were immediately cast into a dire situation. They were deprived of their estate and income when Mr. John Dashwood, became...

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