What does Jane Austen’s Lucy Steele tell us about Regency Society? SENSE AND SENSIBILITY analysis

Analysis of Jane Austen’s brilliant novel Sense and Sensibility, examining its biting satire of Regency society through the character of Lucy Steele. Throughout Jane Austen’s book Sense and Sensibility, readers are presented with examples of Lucy Steele overcoming the seemingly insuperable barrier of being poor & of a low social status to charm even the most ardent snobs into not only into accepting her but even falling in love with her. In the lecture, I present some of the—very funny!—volte-faces in the opinions of Lady Middleton, Fanny Dashwood, Mrs Ferrars, & Robert Ferrars, and reflect on Elinor Dashwood’s perspective.
• How do the characters Lady Middleton, Fanny Dashwood, Mrs Ferrars, & Robert Ferrars engage with Lucy Steele?
• What are Lucy Steele’s techniques for charming others?
• What does it suggest about ‘polite’ Regency society that Lucy Steele is so easily able to manipulate those within it?

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