Watch the following clips from Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility:
http://campusweb.howardcc.edu/mwesthaver/FILM270/edward_and_elinor_meeting.wmv (Links to an external site.) (7:12)
http://campusweb.howardcc.edu/mwesthaver/FILM270/marianne_sprains_her_ankle.wmv (Links to an external site.) (2:08)
http://campusweb.howardcc.edu/mwesthaver/FILM270/willoughby_sent_to_london.wmv (Links to an external site.) (2:18)
http://campusweb.howardcc.edu/mwesthaver/FILM270/edward_lucy_and_elinor.wmv (Links to an external site.) (3:14)
http://campusweb.howardcc.edu/mwesthaver/FILM270/colonel_brandon_and_elinor.wmv (Links to an external site.) (4:40)
http://campusweb.howardcc.edu/mwesthaver/FILM270/marianne_dont_die.wmv (Links to an external site.) (8:03)
http://campusweb.howardcc.edu/mwesthaver/FILM270/marianne_marries_brandon.wmv (Links to an external site.) (1:45)
http://campusweb.howardcc.edu/mwesthaver/FILM270/edward_proposes.wmv (Links to an external site.) (4:52)

There have been over 70 films made either adapting Jane Austen’s work or looking at her life and the era she lived in (see listing on IMDb (Links to an external site.)).  What makes these stories remain so popular in this day and age?