tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33189102.post2167646323062245921..comments2024-02-18T22:40:55.084-05:00Comments on Jane Austen Today: MANSFIELD PARK IS FULL OF A LOAD OF BULLIES. Discuss!!!!!!!!!!Vichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13668098318085667188noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33189102.post-27725278527621915562010-06-29T05:16:04.054-04:002010-06-29T05:16:04.054-04:00I think this is fascinating - like many other peop...I think this is fascinating - like many other people who commented, I find Mansfield Park Jane's 'problem child', and both Edmund and Fanny difficult to warm to. In fact, I've always felt there was quite another novel in there, trying to get out, and 'unearthing' that was one of the things I was trying to do in the first half of Murder at Mansfield Park. I used the same Lynn Shepherdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01110818558940930119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33189102.post-55173707337083836002010-06-28T19:25:14.524-04:002010-06-28T19:25:14.524-04:00It is exactly Fanny's timid character that Aus...It is exactly Fanny's timid character that Austen uses to inflame and upset the reader about the issues of her day.Because Fanny has no social position and no money, she is powerless to change things for the better. Her rich relatives are exasperating in their insipidness and arrogance. I believe it is a commentary on the spoiled, titled rich of the past and maybe the present too ( among Nonnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03227580166409342214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33189102.post-7358938909063625352010-06-28T17:05:34.701-04:002010-06-28T17:05:34.701-04:00Yes Steph, I agree with you in many ways. Mansfiel...Yes Steph, I agree with you in many ways. Mansfield Park read especially in the 18th century was an attack against suprficila morality. It must have pricked a few consciences then.<br /><br />I do admit Fanny price is a little on the ineffectual side and the reader feels like telling her to stand up for herself, have bit more spunk. Perhaps Jane Austen was trying to use a stylised exagerated TONYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07767998391294014275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33189102.post-90763232686499760722010-06-28T15:36:11.252-04:002010-06-28T15:36:11.252-04:00This is the only book of Jane's for which I ha...This is the only book of Jane's for which I have no love for any of the characters, including her heroine Fanny and her "hero" Edmund. She has my deep sympathy, because she is timid by nature and has been conditioned to believe she is nothing, her place is at the very bottom rung of the family she belongs to. She's been beaten down emotionally over and over and over, with only Stephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12181928494578487821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33189102.post-8465018433756416722010-06-28T09:17:10.090-04:002010-06-28T09:17:10.090-04:00I've read Emma, S&S, P&P, and Persuasi...I've read Emma, S&S, P&P, and Persuasion. This motivates me to pick up Mansfield Park, the book. I cannot watch Jane Austen as seen through the lens of Dr. Who. It just doesn't work for me.Cranberry Morninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10758563068581561194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33189102.post-67374692639529178992010-06-28T08:48:22.312-04:002010-06-28T08:48:22.312-04:00Yes, bullying is exactly what goes on in Mansfield...Yes, bullying is exactly what goes on in Mansfield Park. Perhaps that is why I find the theatrical scenes so distasteful and why this novel never quite captured my heart. Fanny does an admiral job in fending the bullies off, but their behavior does explain why, despite her strong will, she seems to timid and quiet.Vichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13668098318085667188noreply@blogger.com