the price family all end up successful and happy because of ‘the advantages of early hardship and
discipline’ ‘being born to struggle and endure’
E+F live with ‘true merit and true love’
Fanny Price
‘my situation, my foolishness and awkwardness’ -is aware of her supposed flaws
‘not much in her first appearance to captivate’ bland, nothing special
‘the purity of her principals’
MP = ‘DEAR FRIENDS’
a real indulgence to for her to hear or to speak of Mansfield
Initial shyness
‘exceedingly timid and shy, and shrinking from notice
as unhappy as possible
Sobbing herself to sleep
not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it.
overcome by Mrs Norris’s admonitions (firm warnings or disapproval)
clear social difference:
Her cousins found her ignorant of many things
I can never be important to anyone
considering who and what she is
lover’s vows:
I could not act anything if you were to give me the world
Could it be possible? Edmund so inconsistent. Was he not deceiving himself? Was he not wrong?
Alas! It was all Miss Crawford’s doing
Sotherton:
when Maria + HC go over the wall she is disapproving of their immoral behaviour ‘astonished at Miss
Bertram and angry at Mr Crawford’
Ball with Mr Crawford
‘And for her to be opening the ball-and with Mr Crawford too!’
‘It was treating her like her cousins!’
Relationship with HC
‘She told him that she did not love him, could not love him, was sure she never should love him.’
there never were two people more dissimilar
she ‘cannot approve his character’
‘agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.”
likes him? ‘to have him still the flirt of Mrs Rushworth? She was mortified”
when he comes to Portsmouth- ‘she thought him all together improved’ and ‘they often stopped
with the same sentiment and taste’ -both appreciate natural beauty on walk in P
Pressure to marry HC:
Norris: Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.”
, It is every young woman’s duty to accept such a very unexceptionable offer as this’
Sir T: you think only of yourself
‘send him back to me happier than he goes’ (Mary sends letter to fanny giver he ‘approval of
proposal - manipulative)
Edmund: he will make you happy fanny
‘you have done exactly as you ought in refusing him’ E agrees w f as henry is an advocate for
marriage w love
Relationship w Mary:
‘In everything but a value for Edmund, Miss Crawford was very unlike her (Fanny)’
Snobbishness at Portsmouth
• PORTSMOUTH WAS PORTSMOUTH, MANSFIELD WAS HOME
• all their deficiencies
• the evils of home
• (THE LACK OF FIRE IN p WAS the only resemblance w MP)
• she could think of nothing but Mansfield
• only a passage room to something better
• abode of noise, disorder and impropriety
• very unworthy of being Lady Bertram’s sister
• Mansfield Park might have some pains; Portsmouth could have no pleasures.
• What right had she to be of importance to her family
• shame for the home in which he (henry) found her
• leaving was a ‘blessing’ she has been gone for 3 months
Relationship w Edmund
I shall remember your goodness, to the last moment of my life
an example of everything good and great
‘her heart was divided between the two’ (Edmund+ William)
Love for William
It was William whom she talked of most and wanted most to see’ (when talking to Edmund in
beginning)
Beyond the common timidity of her mind by the flow of her love for William
The happiness of being with William
bounding with joy and gratitude on William’s behalf
discipline’ ‘being born to struggle and endure’
E+F live with ‘true merit and true love’
Fanny Price
‘my situation, my foolishness and awkwardness’ -is aware of her supposed flaws
‘not much in her first appearance to captivate’ bland, nothing special
‘the purity of her principals’
MP = ‘DEAR FRIENDS’
a real indulgence to for her to hear or to speak of Mansfield
Initial shyness
‘exceedingly timid and shy, and shrinking from notice
as unhappy as possible
Sobbing herself to sleep
not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it.
overcome by Mrs Norris’s admonitions (firm warnings or disapproval)
clear social difference:
Her cousins found her ignorant of many things
I can never be important to anyone
considering who and what she is
lover’s vows:
I could not act anything if you were to give me the world
Could it be possible? Edmund so inconsistent. Was he not deceiving himself? Was he not wrong?
Alas! It was all Miss Crawford’s doing
Sotherton:
when Maria + HC go over the wall she is disapproving of their immoral behaviour ‘astonished at Miss
Bertram and angry at Mr Crawford’
Ball with Mr Crawford
‘And for her to be opening the ball-and with Mr Crawford too!’
‘It was treating her like her cousins!’
Relationship with HC
‘She told him that she did not love him, could not love him, was sure she never should love him.’
there never were two people more dissimilar
she ‘cannot approve his character’
‘agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.”
likes him? ‘to have him still the flirt of Mrs Rushworth? She was mortified”
when he comes to Portsmouth- ‘she thought him all together improved’ and ‘they often stopped
with the same sentiment and taste’ -both appreciate natural beauty on walk in P
Pressure to marry HC:
Norris: Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.”
, It is every young woman’s duty to accept such a very unexceptionable offer as this’
Sir T: you think only of yourself
‘send him back to me happier than he goes’ (Mary sends letter to fanny giver he ‘approval of
proposal - manipulative)
Edmund: he will make you happy fanny
‘you have done exactly as you ought in refusing him’ E agrees w f as henry is an advocate for
marriage w love
Relationship w Mary:
‘In everything but a value for Edmund, Miss Crawford was very unlike her (Fanny)’
Snobbishness at Portsmouth
• PORTSMOUTH WAS PORTSMOUTH, MANSFIELD WAS HOME
• all their deficiencies
• the evils of home
• (THE LACK OF FIRE IN p WAS the only resemblance w MP)
• she could think of nothing but Mansfield
• only a passage room to something better
• abode of noise, disorder and impropriety
• very unworthy of being Lady Bertram’s sister
• Mansfield Park might have some pains; Portsmouth could have no pleasures.
• What right had she to be of importance to her family
• shame for the home in which he (henry) found her
• leaving was a ‘blessing’ she has been gone for 3 months
Relationship w Edmund
I shall remember your goodness, to the last moment of my life
an example of everything good and great
‘her heart was divided between the two’ (Edmund+ William)
Love for William
It was William whom she talked of most and wanted most to see’ (when talking to Edmund in
beginning)
Beyond the common timidity of her mind by the flow of her love for William
The happiness of being with William
bounding with joy and gratitude on William’s behalf
