Mansfield Park | Study Guide

Jane Austen

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Overview

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Author

Jane Austen

Year Published

1814

Type

Novel

Genre

Romance

Perspective and Narrator

A third-person omniscient narrator tells the story of Mansfield Park, using free indirect discourse, which allows the narrator to reveal or conceal any character's thoughts. Readers become most familiar, over the course of the novel, with the thoughts of its protagonist, Fanny Price.

Tense

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen is narrated in the past tense.

About the Title

Mansfield Park is the country estate where the novel's protagonist, Fanny Price, lives, and where most of the novel's events take place.

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Cousins Aunt Aunt Aunt Uncle Mother Sisters Father Aunt Mother Forced friends Unwelcome suitor Love interests Spouses Siblings Fanny Price Shy, observant, modest, capable, helpful young woman Henry Crawford Vain, flirtatious, rich, superficial Londoner who breaks hearts Mrs. Norris Stingy, mean-spirited, scolding, snobbish busybody Lady Bertram Indolent, immature, inef fectual, beautiful woman Edmund Bertram Thoughtful, kind, innocent young man, destined for the church Mary Crawford Lively, pretty, sophisticated, selfish, conniving Londoner Maria Bertram Spoiled, snobbish, self-indulgent young woman who disgraces family Sir Thomas Bertram Conscientious, kind, well-intentioned, gruff estate owner
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Summary

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Characters

Fanny Price Edmund Bertram Mary Crawford Henry Crawford Tom Bertram Maria Bertram Julia Bertram

Symbols

The East Room The Gold Chains Gardens and Wilderness

Themes

Self-Discovery Masks and Acts Marriage and Social Order
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