History Characters / MansfieldPark

* YourCheatingHeart: She has an affair with Henry Crawford, which ends in disaster.

* FantasyForbiddingFather: His children rightly predict that he would never allow the play; he shuts it down immediately when he returns just before a rehearsal. (Thanks to some ValuesDissonance he's shown as being correct[[note]]they ''were'' using it as an excuse to flirt and misbehave, but the objection was to a play itself[[/note]], as well as the more reasonable consideration that they had rearranged his own bedroom as the backstage.)

* BigBrotherInstinct: Whenever he's present, he does his best to look out for Fanny. Less apparent with his other, rowdier siblings, but they're less in need of it.

* LivingEmotionalCrutch: He was this to Fanny before she was sent to Mansfield.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He agrees to take part in "Lover's Vows" when Yates starts talking about finding a friend of a friend to fill the role opposite Mary Crawford's, so that she won't have to act romantic scenes with a stranger. He's well aware of it and laments that his siblings are going to exult over it after his previous strident protests.

* ArrangedMarriage: Not formally, but her match to Mr. Rushworth is mostly arranged by his mother and Mrs. Norris pressuring both of them into it.

* ClingyJealousGirl: She wants Henry Crawford too.

* PetTheDog: It’s briefly mentioned that, at least when they were younger, Tom was the only other member of the Bertram family besides Edmund that went out of his way to be kind to Fanny, i.e. giving her presents and generally being amused by her rather than annoyed or perplexed.

* LazyBum: She's always described as indolent. It's to the point of ParentalNeglect, leaving Mrs. Norris free rein.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She's pained by Edmund's love for Mary not as much because ''she'' is in love with him (though that is a consideration), but because Mary and Edmund are so ill-matched.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: With Tom. Edmund is the responsible one.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: With Henry Crawford and then [[spoiler: Yates]].

!!Fanny Price

!!Edmund Bertram

!!Mary Crawford

!!Henry Crawford

!!Maria Bertram

!!Julia Bertram

!!Tom Bertram

!!Mrs. Norris

!!Sir Thomas Bertram

!!Lady Bertram

!!Mr. Rushworth

* UpperClassTwit: Mr. Rushworth is a stupid fool according to the narrator and every character in the novel. He only ever thinks of his BigFancyHouse. His estate makes 12 000 pounds a year, which makes him the wealthiest single guy in Jane Austen's 'verse. Edmund Bertram's inner snark on Rushworth, his future brother-in-law: ''"If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow."''

!!Mr. Yates

!!William Price

* RichBitch

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She's pained by Edmund's love for Mary not as much because ''she'' is in love with him (though that is a consideration), but because Mary and Edmund are so ill-matched.

* NatureLover: Fanny loves nature and often gushes how gorgeous plants or trees are. She also loves star-gazing. She was somewhat sickly as a child, and other characters often advise her to go outside for a walk or to go horse-back riding because it's good her health and well-being. When Fanny stays with her family in Portsmouth, she is sorry to "lose all the pleasures of spring" as she spends the time in a town and a confined, noisy house with bad air.

* TheUnfavorite: Mrs. Norris is determined that Fanny knows her place. She adores her other nieces and nephews, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram's children, convinces them to give Fanny a new home, and then tries to degrade her at every opportunity.

** When Fanny is little and sent to live at Mansfield Park, she wishes to return home or at least visit her original family. The Bertrams never arrange it, eventhough they sometimes think that she should or could go see them. Being a young girl without money of her own, Fanny absolutely depends on her uncle's support and lacks the agency.
** She's later sent to her family in Porthsmouth for an indeterminate period of time, but she finds out she no longer fits, and again, she can't return to Mansfield Park on her own volition, although she longs to go back and take her sister with her.

* ShipperOnDeck: He wants Fanny to marry Henry Crawford.

* ArrangedMarriage: The marriage wasn't even his idea. His mother and Marias's aunt Mrs Norris thought of it first, but he's very willing because Maria is beautiful, rich and from a good family.
* TheBore: He's not malicious, in fact he's rather friendly and good-natured. He's just very dull, and thus can't compete with the clever flirt Henry Crawford, not where Maria is concerned.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A rich, portly, stupid man who is constantly talking of renovating and improving his property? A likely pastiche of the Prince Regent, whom Austen had no good opinion of--though Rushworth isn't antagonistic like her other expies of Prinny.

* UpperClassTwit: Mr Rushworth is a stupid fool according to the narrator and every character in the novel. He only ever thinks of his BigFancyHouse. His estate makes 12 000 pounds a year, which makes him the wealthiest single guy in Jane Austen's 'verse. Edmund Bertram's inner snark on Rushworth, his future brother-in-law: ''"If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow."''

* GoodLookingPrivates: William is promoted from Midshipman to Lieutenant and is happy that his sister whom he adores gets to see him in his brand new uniform. He looks fabulous in it.

* ThePollyanna: He's disposed to approve of everyone he meets and everything he tries at Mansfield--the only fly in his ointment is not being made Lieutenant yet, but that's solved soon after.

* NaiveNewcomer: Fanny in Chapter 2.

* UnwittingPawn

* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Guardians]]: Mrs. Norris most obviously; the Bertram parents aren't malicious, but they are emotionally neglectful.

* UpperClasTwit: Mr Rushworth is a stupid fool according to the narrator and every character in the novel. He only ever thinks of his BigFancyHouse. His estate makes 12 000 pounds a year, which makes him the wealthiest single guy in Jane Austen's 'verse. Edmund Bertram's inner snark on Rushworth, his future brother-in-law: ''"If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow."''

* ArrangedMarriage: It wasn't even his idea, really.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Doesn't see that Maria is falling for Henry Crawford.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Edmund.

* EmotionlessGirl

* {{Foil}}: To Mary.

* GreenEyedMonster: Towards [[TheRival Mary Crawford]].

* LoveDodecahedron

Another of Fanny's aunts and the wife of Sir Thomas, Lady Bertram is a lazy hypochondriac. She values and depends on Fanny a great deal, but does not mistreat her the way Mrs. Norris does.

* {{Hypochondria}}: Always making a big deal out of her own health complaints.
** However, she might actually ''have'' something going both genuinely and distressingly wrong for her, including with physical knock-on effects; like... some form of ineptly handled chronic social anxiety, for instance. Or, maybe cyclic thyroid issues or some other metabolic, parasitic or even heart issue. There are many physical and mental conditions she (and others like her) could have had that would be recognised and diagnosed today, but which would ''not'' have been understood by others at the time Jane was writing.

* TheUnfavorite: Mrs. Norris is determined that Fanny knows her place.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: When she visits her family in Portsmouth, she's shocked at both the condition of their home and the utter lack of manners inside it, finding that her mother engages in routine ParentalFavoritism and can't manage her children, and her father cares only for Navy news and drink.

* PettheDog: It’s briefly mentioned that, at least when they were younger, Tom was the only other member of the Bertram family besides Edmund that went out of his way to be kind to Fanny, i.e. giving her presents and generally being amused by her rather than annoyed or perplexed.

* PetheDog: It’s briefly mentioned that, at least when they were younger, Tom was the only other member of the Bertram family besides Edmund that went out of his way to be kind to Fanny, i.e. giving her presents and generally being amused by her rather than annoyed or perplexed.

** However, she might actually ''have'' something going both genuinely and distressingly wrong for her, including with physical knock-on effects; like... some form of inaptly handled chronic social anxiety, for instance. Or, maybe cyclic thyroid issues or some other metabolic, parasitic or even heart issue. There are many physical and mental conditions she (and others like her) could have had that would be recognised today, but which would ''not'' have been understood by others at the time Jane was writing.

* TheDitz

* GenreSavvy: At the beginning he doesn't want to adopt Fanny for fear of KissingCousins. [[spoiler: He was right.]]

* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: As far as he's concerned, he's got no responsibilities until he eventually inherits.

* GenreSavvy: At the beginning he doesn't want to adopt Fanny for fear of KissingCousins. [[spoiler: He was right.]]

* LazyBum: She's always described as indolent. It's to the point of ParentalNeglect, leaving Mrs. Norris free reign.

* BornInTheWrongCentury: Seems to be a Creator/CharlotteBronte heroine who somehow got lost in a Creator/JaneAusten novel.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She wants Crawford even after he flirts with her and her sister, and then proposes to Fanny. So much so that she leaves Rushworth hoping that Crawford will propose to her.

* TheDitz: His main topics of conversation are how he wants to fix up his house and its grounds, and even then he doesn't supply any ideas of his own--he just asks the opinion of everyone else.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Doesn't see that Maria is falling for Henry Crawf

* EntitledToHaveYou: He gets his uncle to promote William Price so that Fanny will feel grateful and indebted.

* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Towards Fanny. At first it's so he can gratify his ego and be assured he can make ''any'' woman love him, but soon he's trying to figure out how he can marry her.

* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Guardians]]: Mrs. Norris most obviously; the Betram parents aren't malicious, but they are neglectful.

* BreakTheCutie: Age ten to eighteen sees Fanny go from a sweet young girl to an ExtremeDoormat thanks to the emotional abuse and neglect she finds at Mansfield.

* CharacterDevelopment: Fanny starts to stand up for herself and take the initiative (such as when she helps her sister Susan with her problem with Betsy).

* {{Determinator}}: Although she'll bow to nearly any request immediately, she absolutely won't accede to anything against her morals. It's difficult, but she steadfastly refuses the Bertrams' increasingly-angry demands that she participate in the play and, later, marry Henry.

* HiddenDepths: She's able to see the Crawfords' true character and, in fact, has formed a ''contrary opinion'' of them.

* IllGirl: Although she doesn't have a specified illness, her constitution is frail in general and she has little endurance.

* PrincessForADay: At the ball that Sir Thomas holds for her coming-out (although she doesn't realize that's what it's for). For the first time Fanny is dolled up as well as her cousins and the focus of approval.
* TheQuietOne: Her opinion is so rarely called for she usually doesn't bother to venture it.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: He has no idea that Fanny is in love with him (and how badly she thinks of the Crawfords) while he chatters away about how wonderful Mary is. He also encourages Fanny to marry Henry, not knowing how much she loathes him.

* TheMatchmaker: He tries to help Henry's romance with Fanny along.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: A strange example, as she seems conscious of it and willing to change. [[spoiler: This is actually just a flirt tactic. She's ready to make efforts which will be mutually beneficial by toning down her pettiness, but she can't comprehend why others reproach her]].

* GoldDigger: She initially sets her sights on Tom because he is the older son and will inherit more. But then she falls in love with Edmund, the younger son who will not get nearly as much. But she does hope that Tom will die so that Edmund can inherit the estate.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeFashionable: Mary Crawford towards Edmund. She can't stand the thought of marrying a clergyman, but she also can't help her feelings for him, so she hopes to get him into a different profession.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's an utter bitch, but does do some genuinely nice things on occasion.
* ObliviouslyEvil: She just doesn't see that her behavior and views are in any way wrong--as far as she's concerned, it's perfectly natural to wish Tom Bertram dead so Edmund can inherit.

Henry comes to stay at Mansfield Parks parsonage with with his sister, Mary. Though he has no intention of marrying either of them, he immediately begins a flirtation with both of the Bertram sisters, Maria and Julia, despite Maria's engagement. They both fall in love with him, but he finds that he prefers Fanny because she's the first woman he's ever met who proves immutable to his charms.

* ALadyOnEachArm: With Maria and Julia.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Not over her actual fiance Rushworth, no; she's competing with her sister over Henry Crawford.

The young of the Bertram sisters, Julia hopes to become engaged to Henry Crawford, but finds that she must vie for his affections with her sister and then Fanny Price.

* {{Elopement}}: [[spoiler:She runs off with Mr. Yates after her older sister's affair becomes public. It works out all right in the end.]]

* SpoiledBrat: Like her sister. Julia throws some excellent, passive-aggressive hissy fits during the novel.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: With Edmund. Tom's the foolish one.

* [[IllGirl Ill Boy]]: [[spoiler:Takes ill with a fever late in the book.]]

* ControlFreak: She loves to manage things and habitually takes over all the petty details of whatever scheme is going.

* ParentalSubstitute: For the Bertram daughters with very bad results. Their mother is too lazy to bother.

* ItsAllMyFault: Realizes that he was very incorrect in trusting Mrs. Norris with his children at all and in placing wealth over love when it came to marriages for his children.

* PetTheDog: Sir Thomas reveals himself as an admirable character when he offers to break off Maria's engagement to Mr. Rushworth simply because he can see she does not love him.
* PutOnABus: While he's in America, until TheBusCameBack.

* HappilyMarried: She and Sir Thomas do love each other, and she finds herself quite genuinely delighted and animated when Sir Thomas returns from Antigua.

* ParentsAsPeople: She's never malicious and does show some small kindnesses to Fanny.

* LastMinuteHookup: Elopes with Julia. However, there are a number of clues prior to this that they're taking an interest in each other.

* ThePollyanna: He's disposed to approve of everyone he meets and everything he tries at Mansfield--the only fly in his ointment is not being made Lieutenant yet, but that's solved soon after.

* OnlySaneMan: Fanny after Edmund falls victim to LoveMakesYouCrazy.

* MoralityChain

* OnlySaneMan: He's the most responsible and unselfish of the Bertram children

* ObliviouslyEvil: She just doesn't see that her behavior and views are in any way wrong.

* NeverMyFault: She's the only one in the family who [[spoiler:disavows herself of any blame in Maria's disgrace. Instead, she blames Fanny.]]