Sense and Sensibility · 1995 — 第 5 / 27 章 · 4'28" · C1

Marianne and Elinor Debate Love, Explained:formed an attachment

Marianne argues that love must be passion — 'To love is to burn, to be on fire' — while Elinor refuses to say more than that she esteems Edward. The scene sets sister against sister: one wants feeling declared, the other keeps it hidden, and both are talking about the same man.

あらすじ

Marianne reads a poem aloud and insists that love must be passionate, while her mother and Elinor are more measured. A letter from Sir John Middleton offers them Barton Cottage, but their mother delays the move, believing Edward and Elinor have formed an attachment. Asked whether she loves Edward, Elinor will only say she thinks highly of and esteems him.

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formed an attachmentin spite ofthink very highly ofa little far

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このシーンの表現

formed an attachment

grown romantically attached

Marianne tells her mother that Edward and Elinor have formed an attachment.

They formed an attachment during the summer.

このシーンの他の表現

  • in spite of

    despite

  • think very highly of

    hold in high regard

  • a little far

    slightly excessive

  • do without

    manage without

  • on fire

    burning with passion

このシーンのメモ一覧

73 行のセリフに 21 件のメモ

表現 · B2feel someone's despair

the hopelessness he feels

Can you not feel his despair?
表現 · A2try again

have another go

Try again.
表現 · B1have just arrived

only now came

Look. This has just arrived.
表現 · B2be pleased to do something

glad to give

"I should be pleased to offer you a home at Barton Cottage...
表現 · A2take someone away

remove her from here

It would be cruel to take her away so soon. Devonshire is so far.
文法 · B2It would be cruel to

anticipatory it: The it stands in for the real subject, the infinitive to take her away.

It would be cruel to take her away so soon. Devonshire is so far.
表現 · B2there is something wanting

a missing quality

But there is something wanting.
表現 · B2too + adjective

excessively calm

He's too sedate. His reading last night.
表現 · B1be satisfied with something

content with

Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections?
文法 · B2be satisfied with

passive voice: The passive be satisfied with names what fills the soul.

Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections?
発音to be on

Link to be on into one run.

To love is to burn, to be on fire...
表現 · B1die for something

give one's life for it

Pathetic? To die for love? How can you say so? What could be more glorious?
発音can you

Can weakens and links into you.

Pathetic? To die for love? How can you say so? What could be more glorious?
文法 · B1as soon as

as soon as clause: As soon as marks the moment one event follows another.

It is not a blossom shed as soon as youth drops from the stem of life...
表現 · B1make someone nervous

flustered him

You asked him to read, and then you made him nervous.
表現 · B1too far away

an excessive distance

You must not live too far away.
表現 · B2there is no understanding

no agreement exists

There is no understanding.
発音attempt to

Link attempt to, with to reduced to ta.

I do not attempt to deny that I think very highly of him...
表現 · B2this instant

right now

Use those words again, and I shall leave this instant.
表現 · B2stronger than ...

more intense than

Believe my feelings to be stronger than I have declared...
表現 · B2further than that

any more than this

but further than that you must not believe.

「Marianne and Elinor Debate Love」を読み解く

What's really going on

The chapter is the film's argument about feeling staged as a family quarrel. Marianne's case is that love without fire is not love at all: 'Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections?' Elinor's answer is not a denial of feeling but a refusal to perform it — she says she esteems and likes Edward, never that she loves him, and Marianne hears the difference as a betrayal. What makes the scene work is that neither sister is simply wrong. Marianne's demand for passion is genuine, and Elinor's restraint is a way of protecting both herself and the man she cares for, since there is, as she insists, 'no understanding' between them. The teasing ends in real friction, because the words each sister uses about love carry a different weight, and neither will trade hers for the other's.

Theme

RomanceTwo sisters define love differently — one as passion that must be declared, the other as feeling kept private.
Family loveTheir disagreement over Edward is affectionate but real, exposing how well they know each other's hearts.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Marianne measures love by heat; Elinor measures it by steadiness.
  • The word esteem is exactly what Marianne cannot bear to hear.
  • A delay in telling Elinor is really a hope about Edward.
  • Reciting poetry here is courtship by another name.

発音のポイント

  • to be on — Link to be on into one run.
  • can you — Can weakens and links into you.
  • attempt to — Link attempt to, with to reduced to ta.
Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections?

Marianne's challenge to Elinor's calm: she cannot accept a love that is polite rather than overwhelming.

To love is to burn, to be on fire...

Marianne's creed, the line that defines her romantic temperament against Elinor's restraint.

Pathetic? To die for love? How can you say so? What could be more glorious?

Her outrage at her mother's practical view: for Marianne, dying for love is the highest possible fate.

That may be taking your romantic sensibilities a little far.

Her mother's gentle rebuke, the film's first clear warning that Marianne's ideals may cost her.

But he shall have my unswerving devotion when you tell me he is to be my brother.

Marianne's teasing promise to Elinor, affection and doubt in the same breath.

Use those words again, and I shall leave this instant.

Marianne's flash of temper when Elinor reduces love to esteeming and liking, words she finds insulting.

Is love a fancy or a feeling?

The poem's question, and the chapter's, which Marianne keeps asking and Elinor keeps refusing to answer outright.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Marianne think Elinor cannot love Edward?

Because Elinor speaks of him so calmly, saying only that she esteems and likes him. Marianne believes real love must be declared with passion, not described politely.

What is the letter the family receives?

An offer from Sir John Middleton of a home at Barton Cottage, at a rent even Elinor would approve of. Their mother delays accepting it.

Why does Mrs. Dashwood want to wait before moving?

She believes Edward and Elinor have formed an attachment and thinks it would be cruel to take Elinor away so soon, especially so far as Devonshire.

What does Elinor actually say about Edward?

She says she thinks very highly of him, esteems him, and likes him, but insists there is no understanding between them and refuses to use the word love.

What does "passing your romantic sensibilities a little far" mean?

It means Marianne's ideals are going too far. Her mother uses it to warn that demanding passion as proof of love is extreme.

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