#Margaret Dashwood

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Sense and Sensibility 1995 ‧ Dir. Ang Lee

[didanagy]

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995)

dir. ang lee

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[bethanydelleman]

What role does Margaret Dashwood play? Would Sense & Sensibility change much if Mrs. Dashwood only had two daughters? I enjoy Margaret's portrayal in the adaptations, but she is hardly present in the book.

Margaret Dashwood has a few important purposes, but she's not vital to the story. Here they are:

She gives Sir John and Mrs. Jennings the hint about Mr. F, Marianne would never do that

She provides the intelligence about Willoughby cutting Marianne's hair, you could have Elinor observe that herself, however Elinor is unlikely to be peeping

She makes it hard for Elinor to claim she needs to stay home from London to be with her mother

Margaret is the one walking with Marianne when they meet Willoughby for the first time. Elinor would have likely stopped to help Marianne herself (not blaming Margaret here, she's probably too small to help much)

Adaptations have certainly made a lot more of her! The story wouldn't change much if you took her out, someone else would need to drop the hint about Mr. F, Elinor could accidentally observe the hair cutting, Mrs. Dashwood could have a friend stay while her daughters were in London, and Elinor could slide down the hill unharmed, leaving Marianne to Willoughby or something like that. Having Margaret around just makes these events smoother.

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Marianne, Margaret and Elinor Dashwood: The dashwood siblings are so interesting because both Elinor and Marianne are emotional people, but Elinor is “sense” because she’s understands more that people lie, but Marianne is more sincere in expressing herself, for good or bad.

And Margaret’s great, she’s young, but she has so much to look up to!

We don’t need talk about their half brother here.

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Sense and sensibility (1995)

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Time Capsule

Day 29 of @flufftober with "time capsule" and my Sense and Sensibility modern AU...

Elinor heard some commotion in the yard and walked out to find Marianne and Margaret.

“What are you doing?” Elinor asked.

“We’re making a time capsule,” Margaret announced. “It was Marianne’s idea.”

“Really?” Elinor asked. 

“I want some record that we were here,” she said. 

“That’s very sweet,” Elinor smiled.  She had the feeling that any chances their brother’s family made to the property wouldn’t leave the yard undisturbed, but it wouldn’t help anyone to say so out loud.  “I’ll leave you two to it, then.”

“Don’t you want to put something in the box?” 

“Maybe I’ll think of something.”

[nerdgatehobbit]

Here are two screencaps from the scene right before Marianne encounters Willoughy for the first time.

[didanagy]

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995)

dir. ang lee

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𝕊𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕊𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕓𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪

Emma Thompson as ᴇʟɪɴᴏʀ ᴅᴀsʜᴡᴏᴏᴅ × Kate Winslet as ᴍᴀʀɪᴀɴɴᴇ ᴅᴀsʜᴡᴏᴏᴅ × Emilie Francois as ᴍᴀʀɢᴀʀᴇᴛ ᴅᴀsʜᴡᴏᴏᴅ (dir. Ang Lee • 1995)

[bethanydelleman]

And theft from 1995 #1 (that I've noticed) at 4 minutes 40 seconds

Margaret with a sword.

[hitchell-mope]

Decent movie. I’d probably watch it again.

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Mr Dashwood: son.

John Dashwood: *what is happening* d-Father?! You are alive! But-but how-

WACK!

John Dashwood, belatedly raising a hand to his face: OW!

Mr Dashwood: this is for my wife.

WACK!

John Dashwood: OW! Father!

Mr Dashwood: this is for Elinor.

WACK!

John Dashwood: OW! Stop it!

Mr Dashwood: this is for Marianne.

Mr Dashwood, raising his foot and taking aim: and this one is for Margaret.

John Dashwood: who?

BAM!

John Dashwood: OOOOOOWWW! Father, stop! You are disgracing yourself!

Mr Dashwood: that is what I should be saying to YOU!

Mr Dashwood: *ominously* now, where is my daughter-in-law?