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Mansfield Park

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Mansfield Park	comment	Jane Austen's least popular and most controversial novel, published in 1814, a year after Pride and Prejudice. Following the success of that novel, Austen wrote to her sister Cassandra that she wanted to write something less "light, and bright, and sparkling" next time. One thing is for sure: this is the novel where she spends the most time dwelling on guilt and misery.Mrs. Frances Price, having married a poor naval lieutenant, is shunned by her genteel sisters Lady Bertram and Mrs. Norris and soon finds herself with too many children and not enough money (nor the affection of her husband). Her plea for assistance is answered by her brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Bertram, who secures her eldest son a position as naval midshipman. On the advice of Mrs. Norris, he also adopts the eldest daughter, one Fanny Price. Once at the Bertram home of Mansfield Park, Mrs. Norris wastes no time putting the shy and intimidated girl in her place and instructs Fanny that she is the "lowest and last", who must always be grateful for the charity of her illustrious relatives. The other Bertrams aren't so cruel, but they largely ignore her except to treat her as an unofficial servant.Eight years of this make Fanny a quiet, timid, passive, obedient young woman who believes nothing could be more unnatural than her enjoying herself or having her needs acknowledged or met. Any kindness practically frightens her since, in her own mind, she doesn't deserve it. The one person who does bother to treat her as a person is her cousin Edmund, the Bertrams' second son. The family's routine country life is shaken up by the new parson's siblings, Mary and Henry Crawford, who arrive while Sir Thomas is abroad on business. Meanwhile, eldest daughter Maria becomes engaged to a rich but stupid young man named Rushworth. Love Triangles ensue when Henry starts flirting with both Bertram daughters and Edmund falls for the unscrupulous Mary, oblivious to the fact that Fanny is silently and deeply in love with him. It's all made worse by a scheme to put on home theatricals with a raunchy and romantic play. Sir Thomas returns, Crawfords leave, and though the play scheme ends, the stage is set for scandal.All the trademark Austen themes of marriage for love, prejudice against women who dare to demonstrate any independence, loyalty and duty, class differences, pride, greed, and lust, with some new emphasis on the importance of good education and good parenting, are presented via her signature sarcasm and ironic wit. The novel's reputation is not good, however, thanks to the Values Dissonance involved. Along with the Kissing Cousins romance, an offhand reference to the slave trade has caused much discussion on the source of the Bertrams' wealth. Austen was no supporter of slavery, however, and the references are completely tangential to the story, having no effect on the plot. Instead of ignoring them, however, at least one film adaptation in 1999 makes slavery a significant theme.Well, it was popular enough to be remade as Mansfield Park and Mummies, and J. K. Rowling liked it enough to name Filch's cat after the villainess: "Mrs Norris, people will have recognised, comes from Jane Austen."From Mansfield With Love, a modern adaptation in the vein of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries aired on Youtube from December 2014 to November 2015.P.S. Reading Elizabeth Inchbald's ''Lovers' Vows'' — the play Tom, his sisters, and friends form a Zany Scheme of performing — makes Austen's wit, sarcasm, irony, and commentary twice as clear (and enjoyable).
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Mansfield Park / int_100b0199	comment	The Wicked Stage: Fanny's disapproval of private theatricals is a mark of her character.
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Mansfield Park / int_11a74598	type	Became Their Own Antithesis
Mansfield Park / int_11a74598	comment	Became Their Own Antithesis: Tom Bertram goes from a self-involved irresponsible party animal to a responsible big brother with a Guilt Complex.
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Mansfield Park / int_12040009	type	No Accounting for Taste
Mansfield Park / int_12040009	comment	No Accounting for Taste: The Bertrams and the Rushworths; Sir Thomas's wife is lazy and unintelligent, and Mr. Rushworth is rather dim as well. Paradoxically, the Bertrams seem to be Happily Married at the same time, as it's made clear in a few scenes that they really care about each other.
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Mansfield Park / int_14180452	type	Instantly Proven Wrong
Mansfield Park / int_14180452	comment	Instantly Proven Wrong: When Fanny is invited to dine with the Grants, Mrs. Norris is outraged and goes on a several-paragraph tirade to tell Fanny that she mustn't think it's because of her own merits, that it's a politeness to Lady Bertram, that she'd better not embarrass the family, and most of all she should not expect to take the carriage, just as Sir Thomas opens the door:
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Mansfield Park / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Mansfield Park / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Lt. and Mrs. Price. Mrs. Price can't manage her overstuffed household and blatantly favors her boys and youngest daughter over her older daughter Susan. Lieutenant Price, meanwhile, drinks and swears and is abominably rude. Fanny is at first mortified when she and Henry run into him while out walking in Portsmouth, but is soothed when he shows he acts better to a respected stranger in public than he does at home.
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Mansfield Park / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Mansfield Park / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: In comparison to Austen's other novels, with a heroine who comes from a much less wealthy family than the others' and suffers from the painfully realistic effects of a lifetime of psychological abuse, a particularly cruel and malicious antagonist with genuine power over the heroine (Mrs. Norris) rather than a merely arrogant, pompous one like Lady Catherine, an actual case of adultery (and possibly off-screen sex during the Sotherton expedition), and its Bittersweet Ending.
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Mansfield Park / int_174ea6a7	type	The Dutiful Son
Mansfield Park / int_174ea6a7	comment	The Dutiful Son: Edmund, until his love for Mary makes him waver about what he ought to do.
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Mansfield Park / int_1762455b	type	Sheep in Sheep's Clothing
Mansfield Park / int_1762455b	comment	Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: Fanny is this in-universe. Part of what makes Sir Thomas's Breaking Speech so heart-wrenching is that she even starts believing it herself, and many people start re-assessing their opinion on her, when, as she later states, refusing to accept Crawford's proposal is perfectly understandable no matter how charming and well-liked the Crawfords are in Mansfield, if only because it's her choice, not the Bertrams'.
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Mansfield Park / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Mansfield Park / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Sir Thomas is at first reluctant to take in Fanny because he knows that's just asking for Kissing Cousins.
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Mansfield Park / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
Mansfield Park / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: Prominent with Maria and Julia, but noticeably averted (with the aversion lampshaded) with Fanny and William, who are best friends their entire lives and have nothing but good things to say about each other.
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Mansfield Park / int_1aa30797	type	Single Woman Seeks Good Man
Mansfield Park / int_1aa30797	comment	Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Despite the shift in tone, the heart of this story is still Fanny's desire to marry her moral and kindhearted love interest, despite the temptations of the charming but loose Henry Crawford.
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Mansfield Park / int_1bf0adc6	type	Did You Think I Can't Feel?
Mansfield Park / int_1bf0adc6	comment	Did You Think I Can't Feel?: Fanny, after turning down Henry Crawford's proposal and being sent home as a result of it. Not only does she lack feelings for Henry, but she knows what kind of a man he is, and that marrying him would be a terrible idea.
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Mansfield Park / int_1c21e3fb	type	The Place
Mansfield Park / int_1c21e3fb	comment	The Place: The book is named after the marvelous estate where most of the story takes place.
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Mansfield Park / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
Mansfield Park / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: Fanny and Edmund
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Mansfield Park / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Mansfield Park / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Fanny. Nobody is really interested in her opinion except Edmund (unless Mary is involved, and in that case he's not) and she's been continually instructed that she's lesser and shouldn't put herself forward, so she doesn't even think of speaking up most of the time.
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Mansfield Park / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Mansfield Park / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram love their children, but are very ineffective as parental figures. Lady Bertram doesn't stir herself to raise them (she's more interested in her dog), so she and Sir Thomas delegate mothering to Mrs. Norris, who spoils them and sets them against each other. Sir Thomas tries to correct for the overindulgence, and ends up being so stern that they use his absence as an excuse to go wild, barring Edmund and Fanny.
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Mansfield Park / int_21ec9741	type	Exploited Trope
Mansfield Park / int_21ec9741	comment	Lady Bertram is a stupid, vapid woman. Fanny tries to exploit it, hoping that she'll be as impulsive and inappropriate as ever, and will bluntly express her desire to keep Fanny waiting on her at home, thus helping her miss a wonderful marriage opportunity she actually doesn't want in the first place. Infuriatingly subverted when Lady Bertram proves that Everyone Has Standards, understanding the wider implications the match would have for Fanny and acting almost like a mature, responsible human being precisely when Fanny doesn't want her to.
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Mansfield Park / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Mansfield Park / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: Sir Thomas may not always know how to show it, but he genuinely cares about his children (including his niece), enough to be depressed by their sadness and try to right any wrongs as soon as he discovers them, such as Mrs. Norris forbidding Fanny's room from having a fire.
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Mansfield Park / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Mansfield Park / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: It's almost a Running Gag how various characters are so careless in discussing deaths, or the potential deaths, of various individuals whenever some interest of their own is involved. Yates bemoans how an old dowager couldn't have waited until the family's amateur play was over to die, Tom consoles himself with having forced his father to let the parsonage by supposing that Dr. Grant will soon "pop off" from an apoplexy, and Mrs. Norris is very enthusiastic about the idea of announcing Sir Thomas's death should his sea voyage go ill. It takes on a much darker tone when Tom falls ill and Mary openly wishes for his death so Edmund can become baronet himself.
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Mansfield Park / int_265112ff	type	Creator's Apathy
Mansfield Park / int_265112ff	comment	Creator's Apathy: invoked The cast of Lover's Vows, with the exception of Mr. Yates and Tom Bertram, is more concerned with the flirtations and betrayals which occur under cover of "rehearsals", rather than with any serious attempt to produce the play.
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Mansfield Park / int_26764512	type	I Just Want to Have Friends
Mansfield Park / int_26764512	comment	I Just Want to Have Friends: Fanny suffers the typical "crippling insecurities" and "low-self esteem" of victims of child abuse.
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Mansfield Park / int_28af866c	type	Pen Pals
Mansfield Park / int_28af866c	comment	Pen Pals: Fanny and her favourite brother William regularly write to each other. Their correspondence provides Fanny a great comfort and he's one of her two most beloved people in the world.
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Mansfield Park / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Mansfield Park / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: After a novel of being blind or in denial of their faults, all of the Bertrams are forced to confront how thoughtless their behavior, attitudes, and choice of friends have been when Maria and Henry bring public disgrace onto the family.
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Mansfield Park / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Mansfield Park / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: It seems everyone who knows about the proposal ships Fanny with Henry Crawford. The only exception (besides Fanny herself) is Mrs. Norris, who doesn't want to see Fanny rise above her station. At first, Mrs. Grant ships Mary and Tom and Julia and Henry, even before they meet each other, as she would just love to have her half-siblings settled near her home. Mrs. Norris boasts that it was she who made the match between her darling Maria and Mr. Rushworth. She also ships Julia and Henry. Sir Thomas supports Mary and Edmund as their relationship is openly acknowledged, even though there was no formal proposal or engagement. Toward the end of the book, Sir Thomas is an ardent shipper of Edmund and Fanny; not only does he observe that she's the one helping Edmund get past his broken heart, but also he has come to realize how much he himself loves and values her, and would like nothing better than to be able to call her his daughter.
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Mansfield Park / int_331d9f32	type	Silent Snarker
Mansfield Park / int_331d9f32	comment	Silent Servile Snarker: Baddeley, when Mrs. Norris tries to insist that Sir Thomas must want her, not Fanny, to come speak to Mr. Crawford.
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Mansfield Park / int_332005d9	type	Third Wheel
Mansfield Park / int_332005d9	comment	Third Wheel: Fanny's younger sister Susan, to Henry Crawford when he visits Fanny in Portsmouth to continue his unwanted courtship of her.
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Mansfield Park / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Mansfield Park / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Edmund's blindness to Miss Crawford's true nature can no longer hold up when Fanny tells him of the letter she received when his brother was ill, featuring a stealth hope that Tom would die and make Edmund the heir of Mansfield Park, and therefore rich enough for her. More to the point, everyone takes a burning hot poker to Fanny's self-esteem and self-confidence on a regular basis (and yes, this includes Edmund when he literally forgets about her). And what's worse is that she thinks that she deserves it! Let us present exhibit A:
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Mansfield Park / int_34e1ef45	type	Unnamed Parent
Mansfield Park / int_34e1ef45	comment	Unnamed Parent: Lt. Price (Fanny's father) is never referred to by first name, though considering the naming traditions of the era his name is likely William (with Fanny's brother named after him).
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Mansfield Park / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Mansfield Park / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Mr. Price's constant use of the phrase "By God!" is treated like this, due to the period in which it was written. (It's studiously rendered as "By G—" in the text.) Fanny is very embarrassed by this, especially when her suitor comes to visit. She wants him to give up on her, not to think that she and her entire family are nineteenth century England's answer to white trash.
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Mansfield Park / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Mansfield Park / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Farthest of Austen's novels from the Ideal end. Fanny gets her love, and 5/6ths of the Bertrams are properly chastened and make a sincere effort to improve after the adultery crisis. But Henry gets away scot-free while Maria has to live in exile with Mrs. Norris, who continues to insist that it's Never My Fault.
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Mansfield Park / int_3a967286	type	Handsome Lech
Mansfield Park / int_3a967286	comment	Handsome Lech: Henry Crawford. Though it seems to be more a matter of personality and style than just his appearance, as no one at Mansfield Park finds him handsome at first, but eventually everyone but Fanny does. The narration implies that even she changed her mind towards the end.
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Mansfield Park / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Mansfield Park / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Fanny starts to stand up for herself and take the initiative (such as when she helps her sister Susan with her problem with Betsey), Edmund's eyes are opened to the real Mary Crawford, and Sir Thomas experiences the typical Jane Austen Rude-Awakening-and-Painful-Disillusionment. The novel ends with Tom undergoing this trope, as he gets a wake up call about his behavior after a near fatal illness and his "friends" abandon him.
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Mansfield Park / int_3c51db1c	type	Zany Scheme
Mansfield Park / int_3c51db1c	comment	Zany Scheme: Mr. Yates wants to redo a cancelled amateur play with his new pals at Mansfield. First they have to decide on a script; since they're a bunch of spoiled rich kids, they need one where every character is the "best part". Half the group insists on a tragedy, the other on a comedy. Their production plan goes from a family amusement in one room to grand schemes of building a fully-dressed set and appropriating the absent Sir Thomas's own bedchamber as their green room. And as for the play they finally settle on: it's Lover's Vows, which they use as an excuse to flirt inappropriately with each other.
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Mansfield Park / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Mansfield Park / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Unlike in the climax of Pride and Prejudice, no Big Damn Heroes can swoop in and save the family from shame and scandal this time. The affair between Maria and Henry is reported in the papers and the pair elope before anyone can even think to attempt any damage control, Mr. Rushworth sues for divorce, Henry refuses to marry Maria, and she ends up effectively banished to the rural countryside and is unlikely to ever be accepted in polite society again.
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Mansfield Park / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Mansfield Park / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: The 1983 miniseries gives considerable amounts of this to Mrs Norris, removing or lightening her abusive and unreasonable traits to such an extent that she comes off as a well-meaning busybody at worst. Tom and the Bertram sisters are also made far more companionable with Fanny and Edmund.
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Mansfield Park / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Mansfield Park / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: The Crawfords switching from "Miss Price" to "Fanny" after Henry proposes.
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Mansfield Park / int_4067bd4d	type	Spirited Young Lady
Mansfield Park / int_4067bd4d	comment	Spirited Young Lady: Mary Crawford. She's witty and lively, independent, and she doesn't fear to speak her mind and she has some serious sass. She enjoys horseback riding and takes pride in being physically strong. However, she also plays the harp and is interested in fashion, and she likes nothing like a life in the city. Her lack of a moral compass ultimately keeps her from being admirable.
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Mansfield Park / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
Mansfield Park / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: When Fanny's out in Portsmouth with Henry Crawford, they run into her father. Fanny doesn't know which would be worse: for her father to be his usual loud-mouthed self and scare Henry off, or for him to be on his best behaviour, in which case she's still stuck with Henry's company.
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Mansfield Park / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
Mansfield Park / int_41271766	comment	Happily Ever After: It's a Foregone Conclusion. Though it's not happy for everyone involved.
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Mansfield Park / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Mansfield Park / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Henry Crawford decides to make Fanny fall in love with him as a game to himself, unable to accept that there is one woman on Earth who is immune to his charms. He never counted on falling for her in the process.
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Mansfield Park / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
Mansfield Park / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: The narration notes that Sir Thomas offered to cancel Maria's marriage, telling her that it is her choice to go through with it. If she had taken his offer, she wouldn't have been disgraced as the narrator sardonically noted.
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Mansfield Park / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
Mansfield Park / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: Mr. Rushworth is in love with Maria, Mr. Yates is in love with Julia, but both Bertram sisters are in love with Henry Crawford. Henry Crawford tries to get Fanny like him as a joke, but later falls for her for real. Fanny secretly loves Edmund, who loves Mary Crawford, who likes him back, but is vexed that he is not the eldest son and heir, and that he wants to be a clergyman.
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Mansfield Park / int_487b1e5b	type	Marry for Love
Mansfield Park / int_487b1e5b	comment	Marry for Love: Fanny is the only young woman in the novel who believes that marriage without love will end badly, in typical Austen heroine tradition.
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Mansfield Park / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Mansfield Park / int_4b316d47	comment	More to the point, everyone takes a burning hot poker to Fanny's self-esteem and self-confidence on a regular basis (and yes, this includes Edmund when he literally forgets about her). And what's worse is that she thinks that she deserves it! Let us present exhibit A:
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Mansfield Park / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Mansfield Park / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Fanny's refusal to marry a rich man she doesn't love; Edmund pursuing his chosen profession as clergyman over the wealthier prospects for gentlemen.
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Mansfield Park / int_4efe80e1	type	Lazy Bum
Mansfield Park / int_4efe80e1	comment	Lazy Bum: Lady Bertram. Fanny's mother has the same temperament, but it's harder for her to slack because she doesn't have as much hired help.
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Mansfield Park / int_4f10672d	type	Wrong Guy First
Mansfield Park / int_4f10672d	comment	Wrong Guy First: Edmund has to get burned by Mary Crawford before he recognises Fanny's worth and Fanny is almost tempted away from Edmund, her first love, by Mary's brother Henry.
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Mansfield Park / int_516f986d	type	Loving a Shadow
Mansfield Park / int_516f986d	comment	Loving a Shadow: Edmund towards Miss Crawford. He's charmed by her lively speech and her beauty, but he constantly rationalizes away her selfishness and her making light of everything important as the result of "bad influences" which will of course soon be cured by life in the country.
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Mansfield Park / int_517d2eb8	type	Contrasting Sequel Main Character
Mansfield Park / int_517d2eb8	comment	Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Austenâ€™s novelâ€™s generally have a lot of recurring character motifs. This one stands out in having several characters who are in direct contrast to characters in Pride and Prejudice: Mary Crawford has many traits in common with Elizabeth Bennet: sheâ€™s lively, witty, cheerful, high-sprited, friendly, and a little disregardful of propriety. Sheâ€™s a nice enough person when it doesnâ€™t inconvenience her, and is kinder to Fanny than most of Fannyâ€™s family. However, sheâ€™s self-centered and lacks any strong sense of principle, which makes her very different from Elizabeth. Henry Crawford, though in most respects resembling Austenâ€™s other â€˜rakeâ€™ characters (Wickham, Willoughby), also acts as a foil for Darcy: he gets off on the wrong foot with the protagonist, falls for her, is rejected, makes an effort to gain her affection and respect, and does a major favour for a member of her family that gains her gratitude. However, Fanny doesnâ€™t fall in love with him as a result. The differences are that Darcyâ€™s early faults are ones of personality, which he corrects, while Crawfordâ€™s are faults of character, which he doesnâ€™t correct; and that Darcyâ€™s favour (inducing Wickham to marry Lydia) costs him a lot, is done purely out of good-heartedness, and he keeps it secret, while Crawfordâ€™s action (getting Fannyâ€™s brother promoted) is easy and done deliberately to oblige Fanny to him. On the whole, one could say that Pride and Prejudice focuses on faults of personality (i.e., being obnoxious) and Mansfield Park on faults of character. The Crawfords have good personalities and poor characters. Sir Thomas is a flawed father like Mr. Bennet, but from the other direction. While Mr. Bennet takes a hands-off approach and allows his younger daughters to misbehave because it amuses him, Sir Thomas is overly stern and more concerned with propriety and status. As a result, his children still misbehave, he's simply unaware of it because they hide it from him. His reaction to Fanny's rejection of an eligible-but-disliked suitor is also reversed; Mr. Bennet doesn't even entertain the thought that Lizzy should marry a man she can't love, but Sir Thomas tells Fanny that such ideas are selfish and willful.
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Mansfield Park / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
Mansfield Park / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Fanny, when she first arrives at Mansfield Park, knows very little about the arts or humanities. All she knows are "dumb" things like how to help keep a house, how to look after babies, how to manage and educate younger kids, &c... Sadly for her, her two cousins (and the governess) are exactly the opposite. They're terribly accomplished, but so Life Dumb they don't know the difference between 'uneducated' and 'stupid', and, despite not being naturally mean, are spectacularly emotionally illiterate. Fanny makes up for lost time later, at least in theology and philosophy, with Edmund's help; but, because their confidence was built up too high, Maria and Julia never gain any wisdom until it's far too late.
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Mansfield Park / int_532a8261	type	Bookworm
Mansfield Park / int_532a8261	comment	Bookworm: Fanny and Edmund both love reading.
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Mansfield Park / int_55365db5	type	City Mouse
Mansfield Park / int_55365db5	comment	City Mouse: Henry and Mary Crawford are both entirely unfamiliar with life in the country, shocked at how long it takes for things to get done (with no thought given to it being the harvest season), and were afraid that visiting their sister Mrs. Grant would offer little entertainment, though they find themselves well-pleased with the society of the Bertrams.
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Mansfield Park / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
Mansfield Park / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Tom Bertram considers his only responsibility to be enjoying himself as much as possible before he inherits, leaving to Edmund the management of the household and its behavior in their father's absence. Tom's profligacy also forces Edmund to delay entering the clergy, and he routinely exercises veto power as the eldest son whenever he thinks Edmund is being stuffy. Julia proves to be the wise one when she decides to visit her cousins to get away from Crawford, while her sister Maria succumbs to the temptation and ends up divorced and shunned by her family.
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Mansfield Park / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
Mansfield Park / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: Tom feels he helped cause Maria's running off with Henry Crawford because of the antics during that stupid play.
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Mansfield Park / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Mansfield Park / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Lampshaded inversion in Mary's case - see It's All About Me. Played straight in Fanny's case; her objection to Edmund choosing Mary Crawford is less because she won't get him herself (though that's not nothing) and more because of who Mary is. When it gets closer to Edmund's anticipated proposal, Fanny's fretting is over the fact that Edmund would be unhappy when he discovers Mary's true character.
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Mansfield Park / int_63bfa45e	type	You Go, Girl!
Mansfield Park / int_63bfa45e	comment	You Go, Girl!: Fanny calls out society (and by association everyone who's pressuring her to accept Henry Crawford's proposal) on the Double Standard of a woman being expected to cater to the whim of any suitor that comes along, no matter what she thinks of him or how he's treated her in the past. She rightly points out that she had absolutely no clue or warning that Henry had any genuine regard for her, so she wasn't going to magically fall in love with him the moment that he declared his love for her; if she had actually taken his previous (and clearly not serious) flirtations as proof that he was interested in her, she would have been maligned by the other women in the household and accused of getting ideas above her station. In stark contrast, his out-of-the-blue decision to propose is regarded by everyone as a fantastic stroke of luck for her, with no one taking her feelings or concerns into account. It shines a spotlight on the sheer inequality that many women were forced to abide by in this era, condemning the act of any woman putting up with abuse just because her prospective partner is rich, and criticizing a society that could possibly favour said inequality. For the 1800s, her speech is pretty Fair for Its Day, and you're not going to find anything closer to feminism until Anne BrontÃ«'s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Charlotte's Jane Eyre came on the scene. note Not in respectable fiction, anyway (nothing written by Lady Wollstonecraft or Aphra Benn really goes into that genre) apart from Richardson's 'Clarissa', or some of Shakespeare's characters...
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Mansfield Park / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
Mansfield Park / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Mary Crawford, but Maria Bertram even more so. Julia can still give both of them a run for their money when she decides to really dig deep and pull out the claws.
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Mansfield Park / int_6566a884	type	My God, You Are Serious!
Mansfield Park / int_6566a884	comment	My God, You Are Serious!: Fanny can't realize Henry Crawford's proposal is not an insulting joke until the next day.
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Mansfield Park / int_6e65655f	type	Rejected Marriage Proposal
Mansfield Park / int_6e65655f	comment	Rejected Marriage Proposal: Henry Crawford tries to impress and court favour with Fanny Price, unable to stand the fact that she's indifferent to his charms. When he genuinely falls in love with her, he proposes only to be rejected. He visits Sir Thomas, Fanny's uncle, to ask his consent to the marriage. Subsequently, Fanny has to explain her rejection to her uncle, citing Henry's immoral and flirtatious character, but Sir Thomas finds it ridiculous that she would reject such an advantageous marriage. At this point, Fanny is secretly in love with her cousin, Edmund, which is another reason why she's reluctant to accept Henry's proposal; nor can she be completely honest about the extent of his rakish behaviour in order to protect the reputation of her cousins, Maria and Julia, with whom he had also flirted. Fanny is viewed with disdain for rejecting Henry, until he runs off with the now-married Maria, at which point everyone realises Fanny was right about him.
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Mansfield Park / int_6f6ab063	type	The "I Love You" Stigma
Mansfield Park / int_6f6ab063	comment	The "I Love You" Stigma: Edmund is away to visit a friend's family, and Mary Crawford asks Fanny to send him "compliments". Then she comments there should be a word between compliments and love to describe the sort of relationship they had. However, she is reluctant to actually use the word "love" because it would be premature.
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Mansfield Park / int_707193f6	type	Aloof Big Brother
Mansfield Park / int_707193f6	comment	Aloof Big Brother: While he's full of kindness and concern for Fanny, Edmund is much more distant and less involved with his own sisters. This could be the fruit of their own behavior, however, as they revel in his mistakes when he falls from his moral pedestal as a reason of his crush for Mary Crawford, don't really show any interest in his own feelings, and generally never seem to even want a good relationship.
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Mansfield Park / int_77bc8a56	type	Unable to Support a Wife
Mansfield Park / int_77bc8a56	comment	Unable to Support a Wife: Fanny's mother didn't consider this when she married a naval lieutenant. The effect on her family life is not good.
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Mansfield Park / int_78540917	type	Like Brother and Sister
Mansfield Park / int_78540917	comment	Like Brother and Sister: Mrs. Norris thinks this will be their surest defense against Kissing Cousins... yeah, she's wrong about a lot of things.
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Mansfield Park / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
Mansfield Park / int_7a82c3d2	comment	All Love Is Unrequited: Mr. Rushworth is in love with Maria, and Mr. Yates is in love with Julia, but both Bertram sisters are in love with Henry Crawford, who claims to be in love with Fanny, who is in love with Edmund, who is in love with Mary Crawford, who is in love with money. Who wrote this — Jane Austen or Charles Schulz?
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Mansfield Park / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Mansfield Park / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Fanny. She was The Unfavorite for her mother before she got to Mansfield, and she is Mrs. Norris's least favorite niece at Mansfield. While Fanny is away, Susan becomes their mother's new Unfavorite.
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Mansfield Park / int_7fdf7db6	type	Princess for a Day
Mansfield Park / int_7fdf7db6	comment	Princess for a Day: Fanny at her coming out ball; to a lesser extent, this is basically how she is treated whenever Maria and Julia are not at Mansfield.
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Mansfield Park / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Mansfield Park / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Edmund gets one shortly after Fanny moves in and he finds her crying on a staircase.
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Mansfield Park / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
Mansfield Park / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Maria Bertram is set up with Mr. Rushworth because they're both high-class and wealthy, even though she has no feelings for him. She goes along with it.
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Mansfield Park / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
Mansfield Park / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Mrs. Norris, which Sir Thomas doesn't realize until it's too late to repair the damage she's caused in how she raised his daughters.
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Mansfield Park / int_83c7baa0	type	Step Servant
Mansfield Park / int_83c7baa0	comment	Step Servant: Fanny Price is, ironically, sent to live with her rich uncle and aunts because they could logically offer her a better life than her parents could. Her aunt Mrs. Norris turns out to be a Wicked Stepmother in all but name, and even though her uncle and other aunt show her kindness, Mrs. Norris never allows Fanny to forget that she is a charity case.
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Mansfield Park / int_859bbabc	type	The Cassandra
Mansfield Park / int_859bbabc	comment	The Cassandra: Fanny is an interesting, partly self-inflicted example. She's been taught to constantly feel and express gratefulness since she was accepted into her richer relatives' home, and therefore has a huge inferiority complex. This means that while she's in a perfect position to observe and discover things first (watching from the sidelines, barely noticed yet at everybody's disposal) she can feel really guilty about spotting other's imperfections and misbehaviors (it feels "uncharitable" to judge them when she ought to be grateful), even more about reporting it. As a result, the one time she raises concern about the mistakes that might ruin her cousin Maria's life, she does it in such an indirect, contorted way that her interlocutor doesn't get it and shrugs it off. Her having No Social Skills doesn't help.
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Mansfield Park / int_85bcc5a8	type	Lampshaded Double Entendre
Mansfield Park / int_85bcc5a8	comment	Lampshaded Double Entendre: Mary Crawford follows her 'Rears and Vices' joke with "Now do not be suspecting me of a pun, I entreat."
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Mansfield Park / int_863c780a	type	Hopeless Suitor
Mansfield Park / int_863c780a	comment	Hopeless Suitor: Henry Crawford; men who get the girl in Austen's world always know how to take "No" for an answer.
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Mansfield Park / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Mansfield Park / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Edmund starts off as Fanny's only real friend in the household, and because he's older (he seems "almost a man" to her) he shows her kindness, intervenes in her education and helps her choose books on poetry, theology, philosophy and other subjects, he inadvertently creates a Pygmalion Plot. She becomes an unintended Galatea, sharing many of his tastes and principles and almost worshiping him, while he only sees her as a little sister figure. However, when he starts misbehaving as a reason of his obsessive crush for Mary Crawford and of her inconsistent responses, Fanny is shown to become increasingly disappointed. This eventually becomes serious enough for her to vent her frustrations at his loved ones' (and, for all she knows, his) archaic view of the marriage market (she doesn't think Henry Crawford is entitled to have her, even if it's convenient for him and everyone else). When he completely misses her meaning and thinks she's just too shy to admit what he thinks is a blatant crush on Henry, all the while constantly complaining about the state of his love affair with Mary and being Oblivious to Love, Fanny ends up ranting at his long-awaited letters instead of rejoicing at reading them.
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Mansfield Park / int_882cd7d1	type	Double In-Law Marriage
Mansfield Park / int_882cd7d1	comment	Double In-Law Marriage: Falls apart between the Crawford siblings and the Bertram siblings. Leave the shipping to us, Mrs. Grant.
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Mansfield Park / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
Mansfield Park / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: In the Bertram household, Mrs. Norris indulges all the Bertram siblings, but she greatly prefers Maria and Tom. Maria is her particular darling. She doesn't care about Edmund much and openly abuses Fanny to elevate Maria and Julia. Sir Thomas is strict with everybody and Lady Bertram can't be bothered to care about her children. In the Price household, we see that Mrs. Price values her sons over her daughters. Her eldest, William, is her favourite, yet luckily it didn't spoil him. Little Betsey is the only daughter that Mrs Price likes and she spoils her horribly. Poor Susan is The Un-Favourite for being a girl but not the youngest cutest child, and lashes out a lot as a result. Fanny helps her deal with it, and is eventually allowed to bring her back to Mansfield Park, which gets her away from it and makes her very happy.
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Mansfield Park / int_89d001bf	type	Do Wrong, Right
Mansfield Park / int_89d001bf	comment	Do Wrong, Right: Mary Crawford can't believe her brother was stupid enough to get caught having an affair with a married woman!
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Mansfield Park / int_8af45dbd	type	Wild Teen Party
Mansfield Park / int_8af45dbd	comment	Wild Teen Party: Lovers' Vows turns into the Regency equivalent of this.
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Mansfield Park / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
Mansfield Park / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang: Tom and Edmund Bertram; Fanny and the more lively, confident Susan Price.
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Mansfield Park / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Mansfield Park / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Henry Crawford does not take "No" for an answer from a woman. He keeps pursuing Fanny romantically after she firmly refused him. He is certain she will one day say yes.
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Mansfield Park / int_8ca89acb	type	I Need to Go Iron My Dog
Mansfield Park / int_8ca89acb	comment	I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Tom sits down near Fanny at a dance and offers to dance with her, but she declines him, and he talks to her about how he doesn't like dancing either... until his mother and aunt ask him to play cards with them, and he sadly must decline, as he was just about to dance with Fanny...
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Mansfield Park / int_8dc8a02d	type	Derailing Love Interests
Mansfield Park / int_8dc8a02d	comment	Derailing Love Interests: Edmund is generally a better person than Henry Crawford throughout the novel, but when Henry runs off with Maria, this seems substantially worse than anything we've seen from him so far. Some readers see it as Austen's attempt to justify Fanny's decision, while others see consistent moral development of character. A lot of scholars see his escape with Maria Bertram in the Rushworths' garden as a premise of elopement, or a sexual intercourse. It symbolizes, at least, his willingness to almost help Maria cheat on her fiancÃ©.
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Mansfield Park / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Mansfield Park / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot Lt. Price. D__ surprising for some Austen readers, but he d__ well comes as close as she would have been allowed. (It's alleged that religious swears in this period were more offensive than sexual swears, although obviously these things are hard to quantify.)
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Mansfield Park / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
Mansfield Park / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Sir Thomas worries about this when he first brings Fanny to Mansfield Park - not because it was wrong to marry your cousin, but because she didn't want Tom or Edmund marrying "below their station." It turns out his worries were well-founded, since Edmund and Fanny end up together.
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Mansfield Park / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Mansfield Park / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: Ignored Character Development, to be more accurate — Mary Crawford falls in love with Edmund despite him being a second son but, unlike Mr. Darcy or Emma Woodhouse, she refuses to put what she learns about herself and love into practice and passes up the opportunity to learn to Marry for Love and accept Edmund even if he is a clergyman without an income equal to his brother's.
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Mansfield Park / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Mansfield Park / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Mrs. Norris has spent eight years bullying Fanny, making her feel useless while spoiling her other nieces Maria and Julia rotten. Come the end, she's moved in with a disgraced Maria to take care of her for the rest of her life and has to live with her mistakes. Fanny, being kind and virtuous, marries Edmund at the end and finally receives the respect she deserves.
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Mansfield Park / int_93520e35	type	Plucky Middie
Mansfield Park / int_93520e35	comment	Plucky Middie: William Price is a very plucky midshipman, and apparently very satisfied with his position. He gets promoted to a Lieutenant which makes him beyond happy.
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Mansfield Park / int_99404851	type	Ladykiller in Love
Mansfield Park / int_99404851	comment	Ladykiller in Love: Henry Crawford — unfortunately, as in every Austen novel, the "love" isn't strong enough to give up his lady-killing ways.
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Mansfield Park / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
Mansfield Park / int_99e14f05	comment	All-Loving Hero: Fanny consistently cares and worries about everyone's well-being, even if they have been horrible to her. Despite how she feels about Edmund, she constantly does whatever she can to help both him and Mary Crawford, even if it leads to her own unhappiness, and she even feels bad about being afraid of Sir Thomas. In fact, when the play is being rehearsed and Julia is excluded, Fanny is the only one who worries about her at all, constantly concerned for her, and the only reason why she doesn't go to help her is because she thinks that she would be presuming too much importance in her own actions. Of course, the fact that everyone has become so used to her acting this way is why it is such a huge shock when she rejects Henry's proposal - it turns out that Fanny is actually quite capable of holding negative opinions of people, even if she doesn't show them.
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Mansfield Park / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Mansfield Park / int_9b34ee31	comment	Marriage of Convenience: Although Julia likes Mr. Yates fine, the only reason she actually lets him put on a ring on it is her fear of being Grounded Forever once her father hears the news of Maria and Henry's elopement. Can't ground her if she's Mrs. Yates!
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Mansfield Park / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Mansfield Park / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Maria's role as Agatha in Lovers' Vows.
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Mansfield Park / int_9ec132e7	type	Accomplice by Inaction
Mansfield Park / int_9ec132e7	comment	Accomplice by Inaction: Edmund, despite being a Nice Guy, stands up for Fanny only when his fling Mary Crawford is not concerned. Subverted Trope near the end. Before even having his Love Epiphany, he completely loses it when he thinks Mary is blaming Fanny's disinterest for Henry transferring his Stalker with a Crush behavior to Edmund's sister, with whom he ends up having an affair. Edmund isn't even trying to defend his sister's reputation. He's just incensed that she dared criticize Fanny. Mary, since her answer to her brother's tentative efforts of attracting Fanny's affection to leave her sighing and depressed like her cousins is basically a cross between That Makes Me Feel Angry and "whatever, anyway I told you so and it's not my business."
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Mansfield Park / int_a09f3a65	type	Sibling Triangle
Mansfield Park / int_a09f3a65	comment	Sibling Triangle: Maria and Julia compete for the affection of Henry Crawford.
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Mansfield Park / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Mansfield Park / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Sir Thomas Bertram after Maria elopes with Henry Crawford, proving Fanny was right to not accept his proposal and the family's reputation goes to hell. He immediately dives into Must Make Amends towards Fanny.
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Mansfield Park / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
Mansfield Park / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: It's a very popular, very sincere scholarly interpretation that Maria Bertram and Henry Crawford had sex after they got away from the group during the trip to Sotherton.
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Mansfield Park / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Mansfield Park / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Henry Crawford suffers no legal or social consequences for disgracing Maria, though he has to live with the fact that he deeply hurt the Bertram family and Did Not Get the Girl, since he did genuinely love Fanny.
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Mansfield Park / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Mansfield Park / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The narrator states outright in the last few chapters that if Henry Crawford had not felt the need to conquer Maria's affections again, he would have ultimately won Fanny's heart and hand. Also, Edmund was this close to proposing to Mary Crawford when she decided to write that letter expressing that she hoped Tom Bertram would die so Edmund would inherit the estate.
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Mansfield Park / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Mansfield Park / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Fanny and William are horrified by Mrs Norrisâ€™s idea to join them on their visit home. Luckily, she ends up staying at Mansfield.
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Mansfield Park / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
Mansfield Park / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepmother: Mrs. Norris is Fanny's aunt, but otherwise fits the trope dead on. Considering that it was her idea in the first place to "adopt" Fanny, this comes very close to actually happening. Fanny's only saved from it because Mrs. Norris is too selfish to want to take even rudimentary care of her niece.
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Mansfield Park / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
Mansfield Park / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: Fanny, before her Stalker with a Crush teaches her anger.
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Mansfield Park / int_b2099693	type	Stargazing Scene
Mansfield Park / int_b2099693	comment	Stargazing Scene: Edmund and Fanny talk about the sublimity of Nature, about stars and how gorgeous they are. From the house, they can see Arcturus looking very bright and the Bear. Fanny wishes to see Cassiopeia and Edmund encourages her to go outside with him to "have star-gazing" but he wants to stay inside for a while to hear his sisters and their guests singing. He somehow forgets about the stars, to Fanny's great disappointment.
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Mansfield Park / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Mansfield Park / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: The narrator makes no secret of how society won't punish Henry Crawford nearly as much as Maria after their affair. Fanny also expresses her disdain for how women seem to be obligated to approve of any man who offers her his affection, regardless of his previous behaviour towards her.
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Mansfield Park / int_b9db28ab	type	Emotionless Girl
Mansfield Park / int_b9db28ab	comment	Emotionless Girl: Fanny as a survival mechanism. Compare Elinor in Sense and Sensibility, Anne in Persuasion, and Georgiana Darcy in Pride and Prejudice — all incredibly shy, very affectionate to those whom they love, always trying to accommodate everyone's demands as much as they can, and, to top it off, all having lonely childhoods with no friends of their own ages and used to using silence and an emotionless facade to cope with difficult situations.
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Mansfield Park / int_ba3bd845	type	Bad Bedroom, Bad Life
Mansfield Park / int_ba3bd845	comment	Bad Bedroom, Bad Life: Fanny Price gets adopted by her wealthy relatives but she's treated mostly as an unofficial servant instead of another daughter of the family. Fanny sleeps in a very small attic without a fireplace.
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Mansfield Park / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Mansfield Park / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Fanny doesn't see how Henry Crawford can claim to love her while persisting in a course of action that so obviously makes her miserable. His sister is no better. Edmund minimizes this fault until her defective brain-to-mouth filter eventually reveals just how deep it goes. But Mrs. Norris... By G__, is she a self-important woman. She must be at the centre of the stage, always, and feels snubbed when she isn't, like when sir Thomas returns and she's not the one who announced it!
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Mansfield Park / int_bfc2ec8a	type	That Makes Me Feel Angry
Mansfield Park / int_bfc2ec8a	comment	Mary, since her answer to her brother's tentative efforts of attracting Fanny's affection to leave her sighing and depressed like her cousins is basically a cross between That Makes Me Feel Angry and "whatever, anyway I told you so and it's not my business."
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Mansfield Park / int_c04d8234	type	Rapid-Fire
Mansfield Park / int_c04d8234	comment	Rapid-Fire "But!": Miss Mary Crawford has a very informal letter-writing style. She ends her letter to Fanny Price with three buts when she writes about Edmund. She likes him, but disapproves of his chosen profession. She's happy her London friends and acquaintances can't tell he's a clergyman.
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Mansfield Park / int_c1c07d6f	type	Rejection Affection
Mansfield Park / int_c1c07d6f	comment	Rejection Affection: When Fanny Price refuses Henry Crawford's marriage proposal, he and her uncle both assume her rejection is not serious and just a sign of her female modesty. He continues pursuing her against her wishes, but he still has the full support of her family.
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Mansfield Park / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Mansfield Park / int_c5249b29	comment	Edmund, despite being a Nice Guy, stands up for Fanny only when his fling Mary Crawford is not concerned. Subverted Trope near the end. Before even having his Love Epiphany, he completely loses it when he thinks Mary is blaming Fanny's disinterest for Henry transferring his Stalker with a Crush behavior to Edmund's sister, with whom he ends up having an affair. Edmund isn't even trying to defend his sister's reputation. He's just incensed that she dared criticize Fanny.
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Mansfield Park / int_c57a23c9	type	Harp of Femininity
Mansfield Park / int_c57a23c9	comment	Harp of Femininity: Mary Crawford's instrument of choice.
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Mansfield Park / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Mansfield Park / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Constantly debated between Edmund and Fanny. He eventually has to accept that this excuse has its limits.
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Mansfield Park / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
Mansfield Park / int_cfc52d52	comment	Spoiled Brat: The Crawfords and the younger generation of Bertrams, minus Edmund. Betsey Price counts as well, because Fanny Price Sr. pampers her so much and lets her get away with everything.
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Mansfield Park / int_d075311d	type	ShesAllGrownUp
Mansfield Park / int_d075311d	comment	She's All Grown Up: Fanny gets this from all the nice members of her family, and Henry Crawford, who all eventually notice that while Maria and Julia were taking center stage, particularly with their jealous fighting over Henry Crawford, Fanny grew up, and she only needed a little more confidence and a new dress to bring this to their attention. Of course, Mrs. Norris tries even harder to tear her down after she realises this.
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Mansfield Park / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
Mansfield Park / int_d332bf54	comment	Lampshaded inversion in Mary's case - see It's All About Me.
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Mansfield Park / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Mansfield Park / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Fanny's return to her parents' home in Portsmouth, to her dismay.
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Mansfield Park / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
Mansfield Park / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Maria and Julia both fall too hard for Henry Crawford to hate him for manipulating them both and instead just become jealous of each other. Fanny Price Snr. seems to have fallen prey to this when she married Lt. Price, which could be why Fanny doesn't want to repeat the mistake with Crawford, even if the financial difficulties don't apply.
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Mansfield Park / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Mansfield Park / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Lady Bertram is a stupid, vapid woman. Fanny tries to exploit it, hoping that she'll be as impulsive and inappropriate as ever, and will bluntly express her desire to keep Fanny waiting on her at home, thus helping her miss a wonderful marriage opportunity she actually doesn't want in the first place. Infuriatingly subverted when Lady Bertram proves that Everyone Has Standards, understanding the wider implications the match would have for Fanny and acting almost like a mature, responsible human being precisely when Fanny doesn't want her to. Mr. Rushworth is lucky that he's insanely rich, because otherwise he wouldn't get any respect.
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Mansfield Park / int_e407c172	type	Silk Hiding Steel
Mansfield Park / int_e407c172	comment	Silk Hiding Steel: Fanny, to everyone's surprise. She may be a child abuse victim and an Emotionless Girl, but she does have a level head on her shoulders, recognises that marriage to Henry would be terrible, and repeatedly refuses his suit.
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Mansfield Park / int_e4bb68b8	type	The Charmer
Mansfield Park / int_e4bb68b8	comment	The Charmer: Henry Crawford
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Mansfield Park / int_e84a7d27	type	Genre Refugee
Mansfield Park / int_e84a7d27	comment	Genre Refugee: Many agree with C. S. Lewis that Fanny Price, in hindsight, comes across as "a Bronte sisters heroine lost in a Jane Austen novel."
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Mansfield Park / int_e95acf73	type	Wooden Ships and Iron Men
Mansfield Park / int_e95acf73	comment	Wooden Ships and Iron Men: Elements of this trope are present peripherally with descriptions of William Price's naval career, the life of the Prices in Portsmouth, and hints about Admiral Croft.
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Mansfield Park / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
Mansfield Park / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Henry Crawford is a male version. Mary eventually reveals herself capable of this.
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Mansfield Park / int_eb002293	type	Shrinking Violet
Mansfield Park / int_eb002293	comment	Shrinking Violet: Fanny is a word-for-word description of the current trope page. Her entire character and the way her character evolves over the span of the book is your perfect textbook example of a Shrinking Violet, even right down to the "crush on a popular main character." She may not be the Ur-Example on this one, but she undoubtedly was either pivotal in the development of the Shrinking Violet character itself, or the Shrinking Violet codifier.
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Mansfield Park / int_ecee5a56	type	A Lady on Each Arm
Mansfield Park / int_ecee5a56	comment	A Lady on Each Arm: Henry Crawford flirts with sisters Maria and Julia at the same time.
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Mansfield Park / int_ed05cfee	type	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer
Mansfield Park / int_ed05cfee	comment	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer: Fanny in Chapter 2, when she first comes to Mansfield Park.
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Mansfield Park / int_efad3bde	type	Mal MariÃ©e
Mansfield Park / int_efad3bde	comment	Mal MariÃ©e: Mal MariÃ©e means "badly married" in French and it refers to a young woman unhappily married to an old, jealous guy. Mary Crawford's friend Mrs Fraser (her maiden name is Janet Ross) married an old man for money and status, and Edmund writes in a letter to Fanny that she places her disappointment [in her marriage] not to faults of judgement, or temper, or disproportion of age, but to her being less affluent than many of her acquaintance.
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Mansfield Park / int_efd11fe3	type	A Dog Named "Dog"
Mansfield Park / int_efd11fe3	comment	A Dog Named "Dog": One early indication that Lady Bertram is a dim bulb is that she has a pet pug named â€œPugâ€�.
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Mansfield Park / int_efe04722	type	Dances and Balls
Mansfield Park / int_efe04722	comment	Dances and Balls: Many of them. Maria and Julia frequently attend assembly balls and Mrs. Norris chaperones them, and Maria and Mr. Rushworth meet at one of them and they continue their courtship phase there as well. One impromptu small ball happens at Mansfield, and finally, Sir Thomas organizes a splendid ball in Fanny's honour - as her introduction into society, to please her and her brother and perhaps even to help Mr. Crawford to court Fanny.
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Mansfield Park / int_f12d9d83	type	Promotion to Parent
Mansfield Park / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: Fanny, as the eldest daughter, had to help her mother out a lot before she was adopted. Edmund, while his father is away. Not that his sisters listen to him, and Tom promptly seizes the position once he gets back himself.
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Mansfield Park / int_f19ff224	type	TheUNFavourite
Mansfield Park / int_f19ff224	comment	In the Price household, we see that Mrs. Price values her sons over her daughters. Her eldest, William, is her favourite, yet luckily it didn't spoil him. Little Betsey is the only daughter that Mrs Price likes and she spoils her horribly. Poor Susan is The Un-Favourite for being a girl but not the youngest cutest child, and lashes out a lot as a result. Fanny helps her deal with it, and is eventually allowed to bring her back to Mansfield Park, which gets her away from it and makes her very happy.
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Mansfield Park / int_f231fc12	type	I Love You Because I Can't Control You
Mansfield Park / int_f231fc12	comment	I Love You Because I Can't Control You:
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Mansfield Park / int_f26d5e66	type	Brainless Beauty
Mansfield Park / int_f26d5e66	comment	Brainless Beauty: Lady Bertram is very pretty, but doesn't have an original thought in her head.
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Mansfield Park / int_fa524332	comment	Intrafamilial Class Conflict: The three Ward sisters each marry into a different class as adults: one becomes Lady Bertram, wealthy but sluggish mother of four; one becomes Mrs. Norris, a lower-middle-class parson's widow with who helps out the Bertrams; and one becomes Mrs. Price, a poor sailor's wife with many children to care for. Mrs. Price is shunned by the rest of the family for many years for her unsanctioned marriage, until she askes her sisters for help after her husband becomes unable to provide for 10 children. The class conflict is passed onto Fanny, the protagonist. While she grows up with her wealthy cousins from age 10 on, Mrs. Norris and the Bertrams other than Edmund regard Fanny as lesser, and never let her forget it until near the end of the novel.
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Mansfield Park / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: Poor Fanny sure gets "knocked up" a lot, not to mention all the "intercourse" and Henry Crawford "making love" to her. Also, when Henry Crawford is discussing with his sister the possibility of seducing Fanny, one of his questions about her is, "Is she queer?" In Austen's time, "coming out" meant when a girl "entered society" - i.e., became eligible for marriage - by attending her first ball, as Fanny does in the middle of the novel. The modern-day meaning of it being when a gay or bisexual person announces their orientation is a twist on the old meaning, since it usually marks their entrance into the dating scene, too. Tom, Maria, and Julia all complain that Edmund is being far too "nice," which used to mean precise and which they mean to say that he's being fussy over proper behavior. (The word was already shifting its meaning to the modern form, however; a character in Austen's first written novel complains about it at length.) The very fact that the protagonist's name is Fanny is an example of this: Fanny was a normal enough name at the time, but by the end of the same century, people in Britain had already begun using it as a slang term for, ahem, lady parts.
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Mansfield Park / int_faa71569	comment	Romantic False Lead: Henry Crawford to Fanny. Mary Crawford for Edmund.
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