The second and more significant occurrence appears when Sir Thomas interrogates Fanny about her refusal of Henry Crawford's proposal:
Amelia and Susan both are quintessentially prone to faults of conduct; as we have seen, these faults are what initially astonishes Fanny about Lovers' Vows.
Astonished at Amelia: Amelia Wildenhaim's Salutary Influence on Fanny Price
Keats then started to teach
Fanny about poetry, much to the dismay of his good friend Mr Brown (Paul Schneider).
Bright star: with the title of John Keats' famous love poem, Bright Star explores the lives and love of Keats and his beloved Fanny
Thus Henry Crawford's delighted reminiscence to Fanny about the rehearsals for Lovers' Vows--that yet "untasted pleasure" in "all the riot of his gratifications" (145, 144)--is received by Fanny with "silent indignation," and her brief but outraged response to his wish that Sir Thomas's return had been delayed by a week causes Mr.
It is in the course of a discussion between Edmund and Fanny about the labored after-dinner conversations that we learn of Fanny's famous question about the slave trade--a question that brings the noise of the outside world into Mansfield by reminding us that the violent exploitation of slaves underwrites the Bertrams prosperous lives.
The noise in Mansfield Park
Might there be an echo of Portia's speech to Nerissa early in The Merchant of Venice in Mary's tough comment to
Fanny about Dr.
Part of an Englishwoman's constitution: the presence of Shakespeare in Mansfield Park