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A review by freya_glu
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, Jane Stabler
2.0
honestly i hate to say i feel a little disappointed after reading this.
like many, i wasn’t a fan of fanny at first: i found her meek and timid and far too feeble to be a decent heroine. however i was wrong on the judgement. she isn’t meek or feeble, she’s actually a very intelligent woman who’s just been worn down throughout her life but the more you read the more there is to her. i also liked how her importance became much more evident as the story progressed- no one thought much of her as a child, she was an outcast, but she becomes a greater part of the family as the story goes on.
i did really like the view that austen was taking on- a lot of her stories are a bit more light hearted and dramatic whereas this was deeper and slower, however i felt that the ending was rushed so it lost a lot of the impact and left me feeling rather deflated.
i know that in austen’s time it was fairly common to marry your cousins and i can sort of get over that because of the era (although the fact that fanny and edmund view each other more as siblings than cousins is a bit unnerving in this day and age) however what truly upsets me about the ending is that edmund spent so long declaring that he would never love anyone as much as he loves miss crawford and then two weeks later he claims to be enamoured by fanny when she’s loved him her entire life and he never looked at her twice- she deserves far more than that!
i suppose i can see why people like it however it’s not my favourite- the storyline was fine if a bit lacking, the characters had their merits although they weren’t the most inspiring and the ending was passable.
i’d say you could skip this if you wanted to.
like many, i wasn’t a fan of fanny at first: i found her meek and timid and far too feeble to be a decent heroine. however i was wrong on the judgement. she isn’t meek or feeble, she’s actually a very intelligent woman who’s just been worn down throughout her life but the more you read the more there is to her. i also liked how her importance became much more evident as the story progressed- no one thought much of her as a child, she was an outcast, but she becomes a greater part of the family as the story goes on.
i did really like the view that austen was taking on- a lot of her stories are a bit more light hearted and dramatic whereas this was deeper and slower, however i felt that the ending was rushed so it lost a lot of the impact and left me feeling rather deflated.
i know that in austen’s time it was fairly common to marry your cousins and i can sort of get over that because of the era (although the fact that fanny and edmund view each other more as siblings than cousins is a bit unnerving in this day and age) however what truly upsets me about the ending is that edmund spent so long declaring that he would never love anyone as much as he loves miss crawford and then two weeks later he claims to be enamoured by fanny when she’s loved him her entire life and he never looked at her twice- she deserves far more than that!
i suppose i can see why people like it however it’s not my favourite- the storyline was fine if a bit lacking, the characters had their merits although they weren’t the most inspiring and the ending was passable.
i’d say you could skip this if you wanted to.