Discussing Georgic conventions in the screenplay of Sense and Sensibility

In Emma Thompson’s Screenplay of sense and sensibility, she employs several georgic conventions with the use of a pastoral theme throughout the screenplay and the movie to reveal georgic themes such as the difference between city and country life, Sponte sua analogies, Golden age, and retirement. She also employed and conveyed the idea of british Nobility and the importance of aristocracy in the ethics of estate living and retirement.

A major theme in Jane Austen’s novels is the ethics of country life versus the vice of a city life, and family loyalty were unquestionable traits, as seen as to how Marianne and Elinor are so loyal and support each other, and offer advice on love and other aspects of life even though they may not agree with one another. This can be seen when Marianne talks to Mrs. Dashwood about Edward asking if he can love her, even though she isn’t satisfied with their “polite, concealed affections,” and states “ To love is to burn - to be on fire, all made of passion.” (52) But even if she doesn’t agree with their sort of love, she supports Elinor the minute she finds out her affection for him is real.
As we noted from earlier poems such as Virgil’s georgics and Jonson’s to penshurst, we see a common recurring theme of country living and the happiness a country life brings in England during eighteenth and nineteenth century, and being able to live in the country is a