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Den fattige Fanny flytter som 10-r̄ig ind hos de fjerne slğtninge Bertram-familien p ̄det fornemme gods Mansfield Park. Familien behandler hende mest som en tjenestepige, men hun fr̄ et nr̆t forhold til ft̆teren Edmund. Da hun vokser op, har hun ambitioner om at blive forfatter, men familien ser hende hellere godt gift.… (mere)
It has been far too long since I first read this book. Each rereading of a great book brings additional pleasure and additional understanding. This book will be discussed at BYU Education Week August 2021, so I revisited it.
Review from my First Reading
It is a delight to read these older books which have words such as: charity, humility, grace, charm, virtue, kindness; these kind of words have so much disappeared from our everyday discourse but yet these are words that bring joy, words that are delightful to get reacquainted with. It is so nice to read a book that uses discourse different from our "modern" everyday conversation. I enjoy reading classic literature.
Because it is Jane Austen, I had something of an idea how the book would end. Still, I was in a fair amount of suspense because I hadn't read any book summaries, and thus wasn't sure which way it would go. ( )
So many reviews, this is just a note to myself. I enjoyed the read, Austen has a way with words that no one else does. However, I didn't love anyone in this book and so was not invested in the story. ( )
Come on now, why is Pride and Prejudice Austen’s most beloved novel when Mansfield Park is so much better! No, I know, Elizabeth Bennett is far more witty and lively than Fanny Price, who, uh, isn’t either of those things. Mr. Darcy is far more dreamy than Edmund Bertram, who is rather a bore. And the love story in P&P throws sparks all over the damn place, while the main love story in Mansfield Park is so not the point that it only gets a desultory narrator’s treatment in the last couple of pages of a 400 page novel. I imagine Austen going “Yeah, okay, you expect it, so here it is, it happens, whatever.”
Mansfield Park though is a far more complex novel, wide ranging, touching on issues like nature vs nurture, ethical vs factual education, the identity and nature of home, even the slave trade and the moral quandary of indirectly benefitting from the morally indefensible, for good measure. Meanwhile, Fanny suffers nobly as a bit of a doormat, but then resists what she knows is bad, although materially highly rewarding, with an admirably stubborn and immovable will, while her cousins from the rich side of the family make poor decisions and completely fall apart. She’s the steady and under-appreciated bit of good surrounded by glitz and glam, an underdog worth rooting for. ( )
It took me about half of the book to finally get into the rhythm of Austen's voice. Once there, her voice was natural in my head. I'm so glad I pushed forward (or in the words of Austen - improved). I struggle to call Fanny Price a "hero". In my view, she is simply a faithful saint. She is fraught with fears and insecurities, but her bravery is in her choice to do right. I like that about her.
I think Austen likes to show struggles and vices like so many marks on a pendulum. Idleness, busyness. Lady Bertram, almost completely idle. Mrs. Norris, always busy (and even a busybody). Fanny shows the middle. Weak, but sitting and observing and learning. Yet busy - attending to a host of needs. The Crawford siblings are conspirators - the far side of the pendulum of self and independence. Fanny and Edmund are "sibling" confidants in the middle. The other siblings in the book are estranged and backbiting. I think the author likes us to see the Christian as not perfect, not foolish, but faithful.
The characters have sucked me into the Austen universe - and I think I will not only remember these, but will happily discover all of the others. ( )
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About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.
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But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
It is Fanny that I think of all day and dream of all night.
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On that event they removed to Mansfield, and the parsonage there, which under each of its two former owners, Fanny had never been able to approach but with some painful sensation of restraint or alarm, soon grew as dear to her heart, and as thoroughly perfect in her eyes, as every thing else, within the view and patronage of Mansfield Park, had long been.
Den fattige Fanny flytter som 10-r̄ig ind hos de fjerne slğtninge Bertram-familien p ̄det fornemme gods Mansfield Park. Familien behandler hende mest som en tjenestepige, men hun fr̄ et nr̆t forhold til ft̆teren Edmund. Da hun vokser op, har hun ambitioner om at blive forfatter, men familien ser hende hellere godt gift.
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