1. What do you think of Fanny Price as the heroine of this novel?
Yes......Fanny had a difficult life although she seemed happy at home with the horrible living conditions. Being separated from her family and living with new family members with not the greatest of morals, Fanny kept her self worth intact. Fanny was and self assured women.
2. What kind of role does family play in the development of individual characters?
A huge role.......because Fanny comes from a poor family who loved each other even though they were poor and she went to live with relatives that had very questionable morals and behavior toward each other and to others, especially towards Fanny, they treated her like a servant even though she was family, and they were never really nice to her. But Fanny did stay true to herself.
3. How did the Crawford's (Mary and Henry) affect the family dynamics?
The Crawford's came into the family and turned it upside down for awhile. To me they seem to want to cause trouble for there own amusement. I did not like the Crawford's.
4. Why do you think Edmund is drawn to Mary?
I feel he was drawn to her for her looks and her sophistication, but eventually her true personality came through and she was no longer pretty to Edmund.
5. Do you think Henry actually fell in love with either Maria or Fanny, or is he more of a player?
No I do think Henry was a player of his day. I do not think Henry is capable of love.
6. Should Fanny have given Henry a real chance? Or was she right to refuse his proposal?
No Fanny was smart enough to see through Henry's bad ways.
7. Edmund seems to always turn to Fanny for her input. Why do you think her opinion is important to him? At what point do you think they fall in love with each other?
Edmund and Fanny were close from the moment she moved in, there was a deep connection between them. I think he fell in love with her the first time he met her but did not realize it was love til later.
8. How does Mansfield Park compare to the other two Austen novels we have read? Do you feel like Mansfield Park is more or less complex then Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice?
All 3 novels were different, i would have to say Mansfield Park is more complex. Between the strange sexual stuff and the infiltration of Henry and Mary and the way her relatives treat her and each other made this novel more complex. I was really surprised that Jane Austen wrote about the sexual stuff and even knew about that kind of stuff......because of the times in which she lived in, i did not think i would have encountered that.
9. Which character did you relate most closely to in this novel and why?
I would have to say Fanny......because i would stay true to myself like Fanny did, I would speak my thoughts like fanny did, I try to be strong like fanny, although fanny makes it all look so easy.
10. Do you think Mansfield Park is something of a morality tale, a story that has a sort of moral lesson in it? Yes.....all you have to do is look at the two families.
11. Would you recommend this novel to a friend?
Yes i would, i really liked this one.
Laura mention's
I agree with Brenda......I did notice the same thing that the fathers in all her novels are either weak, immoral especially in this novel and i wonder why, could it be that is what she see's?
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