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maseven 's review for:
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
It’s not easy to get attached to these characters because of their moralism (Fanny is very similar to the Anne of Persuasion) and meekness but this book has a special allure in making you doubt whom to side with right until the very end.
Thoughts from 2nd reading:
Mrs Norris is definitely the villain of this story.
Fanny Price’s meekness and morality makes her hard to like as well. Her happiness depends so much on others that it’s difficult to blame the more assertive and “bullying” characters for actually not considering her.
The problem with the Crawfords is that they are too modern for Austen’s times and so they are seen as vicious and selfish. It’s tough to see them as villains considering that what they are asking for is not unreasonable - especially Mary Crawford’s views.
Marriage between cousins was normal back then, but I can’t read this without disgust.
Also,
Edmund and Fanny are too similar and their being together is not all romantic.
It’s a good novel overall but less my idea of romantic - more similar perhaps to Sense and Sensibility, especially in the last part where the falling in love and marriage of the main characters is carried on hastily at the very end like an afterthought.
Thoughts from 2nd reading:
Mrs Norris is definitely the villain of this story.
Fanny Price’s meekness and morality makes her hard to like as well. Her happiness depends so much on others that it’s difficult to blame the more assertive and “bullying” characters for actually not considering her.
The problem with the Crawfords is that they are too modern for Austen’s times and so they are seen as vicious and selfish. It’s tough to see them as villains considering that what they are asking for is not unreasonable - especially Mary Crawford’s views.
Marriage between cousins was normal back then, but I can’t read this without disgust.
Also,
Edmund and Fanny are too similar and their being together is not all romantic.
It’s a good novel overall but less my idea of romantic - more similar perhaps to Sense and Sensibility, especially in the last part where the falling in love and marriage of the main characters is carried on hastily at the very end like an afterthought.