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Marianne, with her headstrong will, passionate sensibility, excessive spontaneity, and romantic idealism, serves as a foil to Elinor’s sense. She is described as like her mother Mrs. Dashwood, who “was sensible and clever: but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys could have no moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting, she was everything but prudent. The resemblance between she and her mother was strikingly great.” (p. 4 Volume 1 chpt 2). She weeps dramatically when her family are forced to leave Norland “Dear, dear Norland... Oh! happy house... And you, ye well-known trees!" Through her romantic tendencies, Marianne views the world in absolute black or white while Elinor is also, but maintains a solemn demeanor compared with Marianne.
Marianne also displays excessive sensibility when it comes to love. She is surprised how Elinor could have feelings for Edward Ferrars, when she critiques
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11) Despite her disapproval for Edward’s being less striking, she displays her frustration when Elinor holds him in “great esteem”, depicting her preference for outwardly displays of affection as testament for regard. However, her biased and over-idealistic perspective instills in her a disregard for what is beneath the surface reflects when Marianne shows her interest and preference for the charismatic, but unfaithful Willoughby over the grave, but genuinely devoted Colonel Brandon. Willoughby and Marianne are both characterized by excessive sensibility, overly romantic, and headstrong”. Frequently impulsive, she ignores society’s propriety and indulges in her fantasy of love where she openly cuts her lock of hair as proof of their love, travel alone with Willoughby to tour Allenham, and accepts

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