Austen, Jane, Nancy Butler, and Sonny Liew. Sense
and Sensibility. New York: Marvel Illustrated, 2010. Print.
Summary
Sense
and Sensibility is the story of Elinor and Marianne
Dashwood who move across England with their mother and other sister after their
father passes away. Their half brother and his wife all but force them out of
their home and they must adjust to very different living circumstances. Elinor
and Marianne face heartbreak and obstacles in love along the way, as well as
cunning manipulations from family and friends.
Critical
Analysis
This version of Sense
and Sensibility is portrayed as a graphic novel, with illustrations that
capture the events and emotions of the characters. The illustrations also set
the time period and a location of the story as well as it gives the reader a
fairly accurate portrayal of life during the Romantic period in England. For
the most part, this version captures Jane Austen’s use of dialog in her
original story, but due to the nature of graphic novels, much of the dialog had
to be reduced, which at some times made the story confusing and unclear.
Strengths
and Weaknesses
The strength of the graphic version of Sense and Sensibility is that it takes a
classic novel and makes it more accessible to the young adult audience. The major weakness of this version is that
because there is so much dialog in this version, it takes away from the
illustrations. This also made it hard to follow along with the story at times.
Another weakness is that on the front cover, there is a beautiful illustration
of Marianne and Elinor, but inside of the book, the illustrations were much
different, the characters were more cartoon-ish and not as lovely.
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