Mansfield Park by Jane Austen ( new review)

Dear readers, As usual, hope you're all OK! :) Just a quick article today, I won't be too long! Lately, I re-read an article that I've written a little more than a year ago now. And I was quite suprised by the book's review that I made at the time. Not that it's not good, just that I should have re-read it before publishing it! It's not really good and there is something missing. Maybe when I written it, I didn't take enough time to do it but I'd like to do so now, as I've had more time (sorry for the repetition^^) to make a new one, hopefully a slightly better one. I hope it won't annoy you, I know I must have talked about Jane Austen a bit more than usual but in this third year of uni, I've to do a dissertation and the subject that I've choosen is of course about her!(love it) I quite like her-wait scratch that (lol)- I love Jane Austen, she is one my favorite author! :) can't get enough of her and the great book she has written! :) Anyway, I wanted to do a better review and it gave me another excuse (not that I need one lol) to write about her again! :) So, this article is new and improved version of Mansfield Park! :) We all know the story: 'Fanny Price is the daughter of a marine and his wife who married for love from a better background, she is adopted by Sir Thomas Bertram, a landowner, who married Mrs Price's more fortunate sister. Among Sir Thomas's children at Mansfield Park, the quiet and sickly Fanny grows close to Edmund, the younger son, but Edmund is attracted to the vivacious and worldly Mary Crawford. On various occasions, including an attempt to put a play in Sir Thomas's house during his absence in the West Indies, Mary Crawford and her brother Henry reveal themselves as bad influences: Henry, for example, is flirting with Maria Bertram, who is engaged to another man. After Maria marries, Henry proposes to Fanny; to the atonishment of both Sir Thomas and Edmund, she rejects him. She is proved right to do so when Henry later runs off(Men, je vous jure!^^) with Maria. Both Edmund and Sir Thomas realise the superior moral vision of the long-neglected Fanny, and Edmund, now a vicar, marries her.' (Source: "Jane Austen, by Robert P. Irvine, Routledge, 2005). I liked the story but to be truthful with you, you still can't believe Fanny marries Edmund. Not that I disagree (Jane Austen had her own vision when she wrote it, I respect it). Indeed, we can say that Henry Crawford is not a good man after everything he did (I agree that Fanny was right to reject him in the first place), he is not better than his sister. But if your read the book entirely, you can deduce, that in the end, he quite cares for Fanny, despite his many mistakes (I don't excuse him^^, just explaining). It's not a secret, Fanny has always had her eyes and heart set on Edmund, who only realise it, quite close to the end of the story, in the last few chapters. It's not gradually, it's seems really sudden! It can perfectly happen, I'm not saying that. Just the way, it does happen. As if one day, Edmund wakes-up and realises Fanny loves him. The story is still nice and it's still pleasure to read it. However, it's quite different than the other book she has written. It's a bit more serious, I'd say. It's what I felt while reading it and still feel today but you're of course free to think otherwise! :) I may prefer to have seen Fanny finally agreeing to marry Henry Crawford if he had proposed again(even though he's not really nice at first and would been quite hesitant as well) than Edmund but...hey...:) every one has his or her own vision! And it may doesn't help, that a few years back (2 years or so), I saw an HORRIBLE version of Mansfield Park! The book is very much better :) All of Jane Austen's book are really great, maybe this one, is just slightly different than the other, that's all! Hope you'll still enjoy reading it (smile discreet) Anyway, see you soon for another article, take care, xxx