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* There's something tragic about ''Henry Crawford'' being one of the few people to recognize how worthwhile Fanny is as a person and how ill the Bertrams use her--and in among all his selfish reasons for wanting to marry her, he also adds that she won't ever suffer in his home the way she has at Mansfield.
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* The moment when Sir Thomas demands to know whether Fanny would prefer to go back to her family in Portsmouth rather than stay in Mansfield Park. She can barely keep herself from weeping when she admits that she would like to be back among people who treat her as an equal, and who actually love her, rather than treat her as unimportant distant cousin/unpaid servant.
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* When Tom is struck deathly ill, Fanny desperately wants to return from Portsmouth so she can be of assistance. But she ''doesn't even ask'' in her correspondence with Edmund. She's been so conditioned to believe in her own insignificance that she assumes it would be selfish of her to ask--and the Bertrams are so used to ignoring her that they don't offer, even though she would be helpful.
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* In the 1999 film version, the discussion of slavery is a bit more explicit. Then Fanny curiously peers through Thomas Jr.s book and finds it rife with horrific imaginaries of torture and rape. His father tries to excuse it as just madness. The auditory screams heard in the music doesn't help.
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* Fanny returns to her childhood home and finds it just as poor and dilapidated, her father drunk, her siblings unmanaged, and her mother run ragged and unable to cope. Fanny is torn with the dilemma of whether or not to marry Henry Crawford even though she doesn't trust him. Mrs Price appears in the doorway after one of his visits and simply tells her, "Remember, I married for love."
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* The scene at Mr. Rushworth's estate, where everyone keeps more or less abandoning Fanny in the woods (even Edmund, normally so attentive, actually ''forgets'' she's there), is really hard to read. It's especially painful since some of the characters make it clear that they're not particularly pleased with her for being where she is.
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* Sir Thomas, who had been noticeably kind and attentive to Fanny since his return from Antigua, absolutely lights into her for turning down Henry Crawford's proposal without even attempting to understand why she wouldn't want him. And having driven her to tears, he sternly orders her to pull herself together already and try to behave rationally. Fanny, being Fanny, considers that he's ''right'' in the latter and wonders if she really is being horrible and ungrateful even with all of her objections to Crawford's character.
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* No wonder ''Mansfield Park'' makes critics beg for the typical "bright and sparkling" Austen. If the description of Fanny's eight years of deprivation from love and affection don't make you close the book in tears, try to get through any scene where Mrs. Norris {{Hannibal Lecture}}s her, or the scene where she sits in the East Room having a breakdown over the loneliness and sense of zero self-worth that's built up over her life.
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* No wonder ''Mansfield Park'' makes critics beg for the typical "bright and sparkling" Austen. If the description of Fanny's eight years of deprivation from love and affection don't make you close the book in tears, try to get through any scene where Mrs. Norris {{Hannibal Lecture}}s {{Breaking Speech}}es her, or the scene where she sits in the East Room having a breakdown over the loneliness and sense of zero self-worth that's built up over her life.
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* No wonder ''Mansfield Park'' makes critics beg for the typical "bright and sparkling" Austen. If the description of Fanny's eight years of deprivation from love and affection don't make you close the book in tears, try to get through any scene where Mrs. Norris {{Hannibal Lecture}}s her, or the scene where she sits in the East Room having a breakdown over the loneliness and sense of zero self-worth that's built up over her life.
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