Analysis of money & inheritance in Jane Austen’s marvellous novel Sense and Sensibility (re. the Ferrars family). In all her novels Jane Austen is incredibly precise about money, economics, & characters’ finances. In the video I examine the financial situation of the Ferrars family: Mrs Ferrars, Edward Ferrars, & Robert Ferrars. Who is Mrs Ferrars' "eldest son"? And why does it keep changing?
The lecture analyses two main questions about the Ferrars family’s money in Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility, drawing on plenty of textual examples:
1) What is the state Edward Ferrars’s finances? He is the eldest son of a rich family & yet he is not financially independent. I outline how Mrs Ferrars wields her power over her children (essentially—you guessed it!—through money).
2) How can it be that Edward Ferrars can be cut off financially by Mrs Ferrars for threatening to marry Lucy Steele, but Robert Ferrars—Edward Ferrars’s younger brother—cannot be cut off financially by Mrs Ferrars when he actually marries Lucy Steele? The irony is delicious…
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