The movie Sense and Sensibility, based off the Jane Austin novel of the same name, is a love story of two very different sisters. When Mr. Dashwood dies, he leaves behind a wife and two daughters without an inheritance because they were women and it was ilegal for them to have an inheritance. They moved into a cottage owned by their cousin Sir John (Robert Hardy). Marianne (Kate Winslet) falls in love with Mr. WIlloughby (…
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…rules that ruled women in this period. The Dashwood sisters broke the rules and went where their hearts led them (to happiness). They triumphed over the laws of inheritance, in which the women were not allowed to inherit their father's estate. They broke the rules for marriage and found the men they were hoping to love. This movie is for anyone who is willing to stand up and break the rules for what they believe.