Analysis Of Jane Austen s The One Hand Mansfield Park

Jane Austen is an author who sticks to her own established tropes across many of her novels. Time and time again one can encounter the same sorts of characters and similar situations in her novel. But Mansfield Park and Emma are two novels that tend to stand out against Austen’s others – and what makes them stand out is not so much a departure from her pre-established tropes, but a deeper insight into them. In examining these two novels, one might think that the only similarity between them is the way Austen turns her own tropes on their heads. On the one hand Mansfield Park is possibly Austen’s darkest novel, featuring a desperately oppressed heroine whom readers have found hard to like. On the other hand Emma is a lively novel full of hilariously ridiculous missteps and a heroine who wields all the power necessary to cause those missteps. Yet they do have other things in common. For instance, both examine themes of isolation and issues of a small community, and in both novels, day trips and journeys serve to perpetuate that isolation, rather than relieve it. Both Nina Auerbach and Marilyn Butler touch briefly on this theme in their respective criticisms of Mansfield Park and Emma. Auerbach paints Fanny as a monster comparable to Frankenstein’s creature and other classic English monsters such as the vampire and even Beowulf’s Grendel. She states that â€Å"like Frankenstein and his monster†¦ Fanny is a killjoy† (448), and argues that Fanny â€Å"draws sustenance from her role asShow MoreRelated The Basic Elements of Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice4010 Words   |  17 PagesThe most important things about a novel are more than one. Which can be Plot, Themes, Conflicts, Settings, Mood etc. Pride and Prejudice is a very complicated but simple play and for a new learner of Jane Austens this work, one should have to know the basics of this novel. Under are discussed the same basics for the help of the new readers. BACKGROUND INFORMATION - BIOGRAPHY Jane Austen was born in 1775 at Steventon, Hampshire in southern England, where her father was a minister. She was theRead MoreThe Formation of Jane Austens Marriage Concept and the Reflection in Pride and Prejudice3822 Words   |  16 PagesTHE FORMATION OF JANE AUSTEN S MARRIAGE CONCEPT AND THE REFLECTION IN PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Nie Zuyuan December,2010 College of Technology,Xiaogan University Abstract â€Å"It is a true universally acknowledged,that a single man in possession of a good fortune,must be in want of a wife.†Almost two centuries later,the deep impression on readers left by the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice has not decreased because of their changing literary taste.As the author of Pride and Prejudice