“악당이거나 바보거나”: 제인 오스틴의 『이성과 감성』에 나타난 남성 소비자들
“A Knave or a Fool”: Male Consumers in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
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This essay attempts to explore the ways in which Jane Austen delineates the relationship between things and their possessors at the onset of the consumer revolution at the end of the eighteenth century. She portrays the characters’ behaviors, attitudes and values in conjunction with the things they own, purchase and desire. Specifically she describes three male characters, John Willoughby, Robert Ferras, and John Dashwood, in their relationship with things such as horses, a toothpick case, a seal, and an estate. In eighteenth-century fiction, major consumers were assumed to be women whose inordinate appetite for material objects oftentimes led to the ruin of the family. However, historical records such as diaries or journals of this period clearly testify that men were as active consumers as women. Austen depicts the three male consumers as the major consumers, and thereby subtly subverts the gender ideology of the times that equates women with consuming subjects. For Austen, those who are too attached to things are morally deficient, since they value material objects over people around them. She characterizes these three male consumers as cold-hearted and selfish, and either villains or fools, or both. In Sense and Sensibility, Austen posits the critique of the consumer society of the late eighteenth century through the negative portraits of the three male consumers.
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This essay attempts to explore the ways in which Jane Austen delineates the relationship between things and their possessors at the onset of the consumer revolution at the end of the eighteenth century. She portrays the characters’ behaviors, attitudes and values in conjunction with the things they own, purchase and desire. Specifically she describes three male characters, John Willoughby, Robert Ferras, and John Dashwood, in their relationship with things such as horses, a toothpick case, a seal, and an estate. In eighteenth-century fiction, major consumers were assumed to be women whose inordinate appetite for material objects oftentimes led to the ruin of the family. However, historical records such as diaries or journals of this period clearly testify that men were as active consumers as women. Austen depicts the three male consumers as the major consumers, and thereby subtly subverts the gender ideology of the times that equates women with consuming subjects. For Austen, those who are too attached to things are morally deficient, since they value material objects over people around them. She characterizes these three male consumers as cold-hearted and selfish, and either villains or fools, or both. In Sense and Sensibility, Austen posits the critique of the consumer society of the late eighteenth century through the negative portraits of the three male consumers.
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