John Dashwood is giving his stepmother & stepsisters some money.

He is a character in Jane Austen’s book “Sense and Sensibility“.

Austen has written her book in such a way as to expose the parody of her characters’ parody of sense and sensibility.

Henry Dashwood’s uncle died and bequeathed his house and estate to his grand nephew John Dashwood and great grand nephew, John’s son. Soon after, Henry himself died. The estate is passed to his son John, and John’s very young son.

Henry’s widow is John’s stepmother. Henry and his second wife, (John’s stepmother) has three daughters. They are Elinor, Marianne (16) and Margaret (13).

Sense and Sensibility is like a revenge tale on a stepmother and her daughters. Instead of a Cinderella, there is a male version of Cinderella and that is John. Instead of the stepsisters being well treated, it is the firstborn son who usurps the wealth. John is persuaded by his self-centered wife, Fanny, that he should not give away too much money to his stepmother and his stepsisters. From a thousand pounds a woman, they gradually whittle it down to 50 pounds a woman, to be dispensed occasionally. This event happens in Chapter II. John may be lacking in sense and sensibility. Austen may have intended that episode to read as comedy.

A film of the same name was released in 1995. Ang Lee was the director. Emma Thompson was its screenplay scriptwriter. She also acted as Elinor Dashwood.

The fan art deliberately used the same material for both women’s dresses.

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