Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

Summary 45-50 chapters

Dashwood family learns that Lucy and Edward get married. When Mrs. Dashwood sees how sad is Elinor, she finally realizes how strong her daughter's feelings for Edward, and regrets that she didn't pay enough attention on her misfortune. However, the next day Edward arrives and tells himself that it is his brother Robert married Lucy, but not he. Edward says he was trapped with Lucy, as he stoped to love her for a long time ago, and she broke her engagement to marry Robert, who becomes very rich now. Edward proposes marriage to Elinor and she accepts it. In the end Edward becomes reconciled with his mother, who gives him 10 thousand of pounds. It also establishes, as far as possible, the relationship with Fanny. Elinor and Edward get married and move to the parish house in Delaford.

Meanwhile, Willoughby's aunt gives him his part of the inheritance due to his prudent behavior and beneficial marriage. Willoughby understands that a wedding with Marianne may produce the same effect on the old woman, and if he behaved like a gentleman, he may have received love and money.

Over the next two years Mrs.Dashwood, Marianne and Margaret spend most of their time in Delaford. Marianne matures and in the age of nineteen she decides to marry a 37-year-old Colonel Brandon. Despite of the fact that before she considered a marriage to a man, who was older for 20 years, is impossible and repulsive; gratitude and respect which she feels for the Colonel grow into a strong love. Colonel's house is near to the parish where Elinor and Edward live, so Elinor, Marianne and their husbands can often see each other. The sisters continue to maintain close ties with their mother and Margaret at Barton Cottage, and the families live happily ever after.

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

Summary 37-44 chapters

Brandon offeres to Edward his living not for the purpose of the marriage to Lucy, it isn't enough to support a family, but it can help him to remain aswim until he finds something better. Elinor meets a foppish Edward's brother, Robert, and is shocked by the fact that he has no remorse toward his brother, who was deprived of a livelihood.

Sisters end their staying in London and go back to Barton and stay at a country estate of Mrs.Jennings's son-in-law Mr.Palmer in Cleveland. There Marianne, mourning the loss of Willoughby, disparages toward her health and eventually she is dangerously ill. Get knowing about it, Willoughby suddenly comes and tells Elinor that he is truly in love with Marianne. However since his aunt had deprived him of his inheritance because of his behavior toward Miss Williams, he decided to get marry the wealthy Miss Grey.

Elinor tells Marianne about his visit. Marianne avows that while she loves Willoughby, she can't be happy with a dissolute father of an illegitimate child, even if he had not left her. She also realizes that her illness was caused by her grief, exaggerated sensibility, and if she dies, it is akin to suicide. She decides to change for the better and learn from her sister to have restraint and common sense.

RENDERING 12

Best Actor in a Spritzing Role

The author of the article is Bee-Shyuan Chang. It was published on 24 April, 2013, in The New York Times. The article provides the information about actor as cologne spokesman.

In the beginning of the article the author says that Eric Bana, who is known for rugged, physically impressive characters with a sensitive side, now decided to be a cologne spokesman. Eric himself convinces that he has never done a campaign before, but he always wanted to smell nice for his co-stars. The author adds that models of campaigns are increasingly being replaced by recognizable Hollywood personalities.

Further Chang tells that actors have historically been harder to woo. According to the text it was quite difficult for an actor to admit that they take care of themselves until the rise of the metrosexual and increasingly sophisticated grooming products for the furrier sex. Moreover it is very profitably because footage from television commercials and mini-movies can be cut or repurposed for YouTube and print ads.

Chang also points out that appearance is also very important. If an actor doesn’t look right, it can really hurt you. So we see that it’s a very important decision who to choose for the brand. What is more the author says that the actor should have sex appeal — even an unkempt, shaggy sex appeal like Mr. Pitt’s.

To sum up Chang gives the reader opinion of the fashion director at Esquire, Nick Sullivan, who suspects a lot of wives want their husbands to smell better and are buying the fragrances for them. And also he adds that the fact that they used Brad Pitt for a women’s fragrance says something.

To my mind man are more presentable then women. Men have a greater cachet in beauty than they have had for a long time. So, I'm sure it is a good experience for famous brands to use popular male actors, sex-idols in their advertisings.

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

Summary 29-36 chapters

The truth about Willoughby's character leaks out. Colonel Brandon tells Elinor that Willoughby enticed one of his pupils, 15-years-old Eliza Williams, and abandoned her when she became pregnant. Marianne reminds him Eliza's mother. Brandon was in love with this woman, whose life was ruined because of an unhappy marriage with his brother.

Fanny Dashwood, who also be in London in winter, reject her husband's proposal to invite Dashwood sisters to live with them. Instead she invites Steele sisters, whom she has never seen. Lucy is very proud of it and boasts to Elinor that Fanny's mother, Mrs. Ferrars, favours her. When Miss Anne, Lucy's sister, sees how much Fanny and her mother love Lucy, she tells them about the secret engagement of Lucy and Edward. When Mrs. Ferrars gets to know about it, she turn Steele sisters out of doors in a fit of hysteria and demands Edward to break the engagement under the threat of disinheriting. Edward consideres that it would be dirtily to break with Lucy. He refuses and loses his part of inheritance in favor of his younger brother Robert. Elinor and Marianne sympathize with him, their high opinion about Edward becomes stronger, because he is as good as his words and he is willing to get marry a woman he doesn't love. Edward is going to enter the Church.

Colonel Brandon, who knows from his personal experience how difficult it is, when people don't recognize your love, expressed sympathy in the conversation with Elinor for Edward's unfortunate life circumstances and asks her to to transmit a proposal for Mr. Ferrars. He offeres to Edward his living at the Delaford rectory as a means of supporting himself. Edward is astonished and deeply moved by the Colonel's generosity. 

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

Summary 20-28 chapters

Edward Ferrars visits Dashwood in their cottage in Barton Park, but looks miserable and depressed. Elinor is afraid that he is feels nothing towards her. However, she didn't allow anyone to see her in grief. She feels herself obliged to her mother and sisters, as they worship upon Edward and firmly believe in his love for Elinor.

Anne and Lucy Steele, a rather forward and uneducated Lady Middleton's cousins, arrive in Barton Park. Sir John jokingly tells Lucy that Elinor is in love with Edward. This encourages her to tell about her secret engagement with Edward, which took place four years ago. Although firstly Elinor blames Edward mentally, later she realizes that Edward was engaged to Lucy when he was very young and naive and perhaps he made a mistake. She thinks and hopes that Edward doesn't love Lucy, but he isn't able to hurt or humiliate her breaking a promise. Elinor hides her disappointment and strives to convince Lucy that she has no feelings towards Edward. It is very difficult because she sees that Lucy doesn't love Edward and will make him miserable. Lucy tells Elinor that Mrs. Ferrars will be certainly against this marriage, and they plan to wait until her death, if Edward will not find another way to support his family without parental help.

Elinor and Marianne spend the winter in Mrs. Jennings'es house in London. Marianne writes many letters to Willoughby, confirming sister's suspicions about their engagement, as only a engaged young people can write so openly. However, Marianne's letters remain unanswered. During a meeting at the ball he treats her with a cold neglect. Later he answers for Marianne's letter, and returns all her letters, all evidence of love, including a lock of hair, reporting about his engagement to Miss Gray, a woman of high social status with great fortune of 50 million pounds. Marianne is in depression and avows Elinor that she have never been engaged to Willoughby, but she loved him, and he convinced her that he loved her too.

RENDERING 11

Horror: the genre that refuses to die

The author of the article is Robbie Collin. It was published on 18 April, 2013, on the web site www.telegraph.co.uk. The article provides the information about the ever-changing face of Horror as an everlasting genre.

In the beginning of the article the author gives us the statistics of Horror films over the past 12 months. According to the article most of 57 new films were variations on well-worn themes, but the best one was The Cabin in the Woods by Drew Goddard.

The critic Robbie Collin says explains that watching a great horror film is like participating in a kind of rite, in which we can enjoy feeling unnerved, shocked and revolted. He also points what sets great horror cinema apart. It is the game we enter into with it, the temporary period of play-madness, can long outlast the experience of watching the film itself.

Further Collin says that The Cabin in the Woods is a remake of the grandfather of all cabin-in-the-woods films, Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981). Raimi’s original film was a shoestring and wasn't popular until its new screening in 1987. It is the best horror film. Collins adds that if The Cabin in the Woods sounded the death knell for the all-American scary movie, then The Evil Dead is the first truly global horror film.

Robbie Collin tells that horror as genre flourished in Britain after the Second World War, with The Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster; then the scariest blockbusters like God or the rule of law; The Exorcist (1973), Jaws (1975). Collin also adds that New European horror is deadly serious, socially conscious and often ultra-violent.

In conclusion the author says that yet there are some intensely spooky territories that remain as-yet uncharted. The films of the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul are good examples, where we can see the relationship with the supernatural that gods and demons. And Collin suggests that The Evil Dead would be re-remade.

Well, I am a big fan of horror films. I agree with Robbie Collin that Horror is an undying genre. These films are so exciting, and The Cabin in the Woods truly creates an unnerving atmosphere. Today with the technique development, such films are becoming more and more frightful; and it is great for me as a fan!

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

Summary 10-19 chapters

One of Mrs. Dashwood's cousins​, a rich Sir John Middleton, offers her and her daughters a house in his estate, Barton Park in Devonshire, and they accept the proposal. Sir John warmly welcomes his new neighbours, and persists in their frequent visits to dinner with his family at the park. In the house of Sir John and his wife, also lives his mother-in-law Mrs.Jennings, a rich widow, and rather vulgar, but still kind and funny. She intends immediately to find husbands for Dashwood sisters.

During one of visits Sir John Dashwood's introduces his old friend, sedate and quiet gentleman Colonel Brandon. It soon becomes obvious that the Colonel like Marianne, and Mrs. Jennings teases them. However it isn't to to Marianne liking, as she believes that the Colonel was too old for his 35 years and he forget how to love.

While walking Marianne falls in the rain and twists the ankle. Fortunatelly, a young attractive man, John Willoughby, who is staying nearby at his rich aunt Mrs. Smith, comes along and carries Marianne home. Soon he wins her favour by his appearance, and especially by his awareness in music, painting and poetry. He comes to Marianne every day and her mother and sisters begin to suspect a secret engagement.

Elinor is perturbed by frank expression of sister's feelings in Willoughby's presence and warns her, but Marianne doesn't want to hear it. During a picnic a couple leaves the others to see the estate, which Willoughby would inherit from his aunt. Elinor is strongly worried that Marianne went to the unknown house without any escort. However Marianne is angry with sister's interference. The next day, Mrs. Dashwood finds Marianne in hysterics after a Willoughby's morning visit. He informs them that his aunt sends him to London on business and that perhaps they can't see each other for a year, and then he disappears quickly. Marianne is very upset and seek consolation in playing tunes, the notes for which Willoughby had given to her, and in reading the book they had read together.