DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i05.020

Pages: 1166-1170

There is always possibility that one writer is inspired by another writer, especially if one particular writer is known to be a constant reader of another writer. This research addressed the intertextual relationship between two literary works, such as Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Catherine Helen Spence’s Mr. Hogarth’s Will and elaborates the possibility whether Catherine Helen Spence’s work was inspired by Jane Austen’s works This research employed descriptive qualitative method by applying intertextual and semantic analysis by Julia Kristeva that explains the connection between one literary work and other literary work. The data were collected from the novel Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Mr. Hogarth’s Will (1865). The result of analysis showed that there are similarities in the two stories in terms of storyline and women characters that experience the same fate of not inheriting any heritage. In Sense and Sensibility, women characters do not get heritage based on Primogeniture law that applies in England, whilst in Mr. Hogarth’s Will, the women characters do not get heritage based on will by their uncle. Evidence of transformation in the novel ‘Mr. Hogarth’s’ Will’ from the novel ‘Sense and Sensibility’ has been the primary purpose of intertextual analysis. Transformation in the novel ‘Sense and Sensibility’ is concerned with women characters who merely accepted their fate, but in ‘Mr. Hogarth’s Will’ women characters try their efforts of getting an appropriate job.