Mansfield park 马斯菲尔德庄园.ppt

Mansfield park Brief introduction about her Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers especially in reading. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. Main contents The main character, Fanny Price, lived in a unfortunate family, for her mother married a poor lieutenant of marines for love. Mrs. Prices alcoholic husband was disabled and released from the service on half pay, and she had to settle for a life far less comfortable than those of her sisters. Thus, Fanny is selected as a dependent poor relation only intensifies these traits. She is sensitive, shy, intelligent, seemingly virtuous, with a good sense of morals. When the children have grown up, the stern patriarch Sir Thomas leaves for a year to deal with problems on his plantation in Antigua. The fashionable and worldly Henry Crawford and his sister Mary Crawford arrive in the village, and stay with their sister, the Parsons wife. The arrival of the Crawfords disrupts the staid world of Mansfield and sparks a series of romantic entanglements. Mary and Edmund begin to form an attachment, though Edmund often worries her manners . However, she is engaging, beautiful and charming, and goes out of her way to befriend Fanny. Fanny fears that Mary has enchanted Edmund, and love has blinded him to her flaws. Henry plays with the affections of both Maria and Julia, despite Maria being already engaged to the dull, but very rich, Mr. Rushworth. Maria believes that Henry is really in love with her, and treats Mr Rushworth coldly, invoking his jealousy. Encouraged by Tom and his friend Mr. Yates, the young people decide to play Lovers’ Vows; Edmund and Fanny both initially oppose the plan, believing Sir Thomas would disapprove and feeling t