Calleigh's Sense and Sensibility Project

Ok, so for Sense and Sensibility's blog project I wrote an essay on the villains of S&S.  It was fun (I'm weird and enjoy writing essays), and I guess I chose the most obvious of the villains. (I still think Edwards a wimp, sorry I just had to throw that in there :D)  Anyway, with out any further ado, my essay!

Sense and Sensibility’s Scoundrels

                Although there may not technically be a villain in the sense that we think of the word, Sense and Sensibility has many characters worth our disgust.  Number one on the list is Willoughby, the breaker of hearts and the seeker of wealth.  We pound Willoughby pretty hard for what he did to Marianne, but if you really think about it, what would you have done?  Would you have picked love or money?  I’m not excusing what he did, but how many of us would have done anything less?  His one redeeming quality is that he truly did love Marianne.  Although he chose to cast her aside, he did love her.

                Number two is Lucy Steele who, in my opinion, is just as conniving as Willoughby.  Once she discovers Eleanor’s attachment to Edward, she does everything she can to flaunt her own.  Then, once she finally has him, she dumps him for his now rich younger brother!  She is Willoughby in the female form.

                Jane Austen writes very believable villains.  Some that make you dislike them almost instinctively, and others that we must peel the mask off to discover what is really beneath it.   How many Lucy’s have you know?  How many Willoughby’s run loose in the world?  Without their villains books would be boring, but how we hate them!

- Calleigh