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Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park", 2007.
An analysis of the marriage choices in Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park".
1,248 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 0 sources, £ 26.95
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The paper examines Jane Austen's novel "Mansfield Park" and highlights the debate whether one should marry for affection or economic advantage. The paper identifies Austen's belief that one should marry where there is affection and fortune. The paper then discusses the subsequent fate of Mary, Maria and Fanny at the close of the story, where Austen indicates that although everyone seeks an ideal marriage, they are forced to take what circumstances offer them.
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"Mary Crawford embraces marriage as a business transaction in which finances and family connections are of the utmost importance. She repeatedly states her faith in and desire for wealth. "I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel any thing of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" (177). Edmund can't help feeling distress at such declarations from the woman he desires to marry. When he tries to impress her with the value of a modest income, Mary's retort is a clear challenge. "Be honest and poor by all means - but I shall not envy you; I do not much think I shall even respect you. I have a much greater respect for those that are honest and rich" (178). Mary makes it clear throughout the novel that although she desires Edmund, he must choose a more impressive profession and offer her a larger income if he expects her to marry him. Despite the attraction Mary feels towards Edmund, she cannot accept his social status. Fanny later observes that Mary "had only learnt to think of nothing of consequence but money" (360)."
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Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park", 2006.
An analysis of the heroine Fanny Price from Jane Austen's novel "Mansfield Park".
918 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 20.95
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This paper describes and analyzes the character of Fanny Price from the novel "Mansfield Park" and contrasts her character to other characters in the novel. The paper explains that Fanny Price's character feels her position in society deeply and acts according to what society expects of her but does not sacrifice her morals or integrity in doing so.
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"While Fanny Price of Mansfield Park is hardly Jane Austen's most flamboyant heroine, she does embody certain positive traits, which distinguish her from the Bertrams and from the rest of her immediate society. Fanny's deep sense of morality contrasts sharply to the self-centered habits of her adoptive mother, Mrs. Bertram, as well as to the conniving, indulgent behavior of Aunt Norris. Her humility and kindness set her apart from her cousins and from the Crawfords as well. In the world of Mansfield Park, only one person treats her kindly - her cousin, Edmund - and it is in her love for him that Fanny comes to embody her most heroic aspects."
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Mansfield Park: Stasis Validation or Social Critique?, 2001.
A critical analysis of 'Mansfield Park" by Jane Austen. The author gives a brief outline of the main themes of the book and provides an analysis of the criticisms by various writers.
4,070 words (approx. 16.3 pages), 5 sources, £ 69.95
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An examination of the criticisms of Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park". The author gives a brief outline of the main themes of the book and provides an analysis of the criticisms by various writers.
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"Most critics seem to agree that the novel Mansfield Park is somehow alien to both Jane Austen?s personality and the tone of her other works. Lionel Trilling remarks that it is not possible for him to observe how different Mansfield Park is from Austen?s works both before and after, particularly from Pride and Prejudice, without supposing that she had undergone a spiritual crisis in the intervening period between the two novels. He postulates that ?fatigue? must have played a part in that crisis, apparently suggesting that Austen wrote the novel during a profoundly depressed state of mind (Trilling 433). Trilling further asserts that Austen?s other works are essentially ?modern novels,? but that Mansfield Park ?scandalizes modern assumptions about social relations, about virtue, about religion, sex and art? (Trilling 426). Trilling?s presumption is that Austen wrote Mansfield Park as a sort of atonement for the levity she had exercised earlier and that the book is to be read as a primer of behavioral attributes, without irony."
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Jane Austen's 'Mansfield Park', 2002.
This paper is an analysis of Austen's 'Mansfield Park' using Roland Barthes' literary criticism book 'S/Z'.
1,748 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 0 sources, £ 35.95
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The following paper examines the five codes and ideas that appear in Roland Barthes' 'S/Z' and applies it to Jane Austen's novel 'Mansfield Park'. Barthes' codes apply both on the small scale, to the language and on the larger scale, to the whole novel. This paper demonstrates the application of the codes, specifically the cultural and symbolic code, to both the novel as a whole and to certain selected texts.
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"Roland Barthes writes about different characters in Sarrasine fitting into different roles, such as passive/active or mother/father. In Mansfield Park, many of the characters fit into these roles or actant. Fanny can definitely be classified as "passive". She is not a radical, she stands for silence, tradition, tranquillity, manners and for acting upon what one knows, not what one feels. Mary Crawford is "active" and an advocate of change. She acts on her emotions and stands for movement, modern ideas, progressiveness and speaking one's mind instead of remaining silent."
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Religion in "Mansfield Park", 2009.
An analysis of the significance of religion in the construction of Jane Austen's novel "Mansfield Park".
2,401 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 46.95
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The paper attempts to show how religion in the novel "Mansfield Park" is the dominant theme. The paper illustrates how religion offers a perspective on the nature of the characters and the way in which they interact with the rest of the actors on the narrative scene. The paper also shows how religion points out several aspects of the traditional belief in the religiousness of the time while it also addresses indirectly the issue of slavery as a corollary of religion and morals. Finally, the paper demonstrates how we see the power of religion as being an equal replacement to the power of social demands.
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"English literature is considered to be one of the most interesting and artistically rewarding experiences for any literature fan. It shares the views of an environment which is complex in its social and cultural elements. At the same time it points out the perspectives of writers who have been deeply influenced by the period of their existence in a more profound manner as the rest of literature writers. In this sense, Jane Austen is viewed as one of the most complex literature writers, for her dedication to her work as well as for the way in which she managed to convey the message across to her readers. Some of the most important novels of her literary creation include "Pride and Prejudice", "Emma", as well as "Sense and Sensibility" which have all represented important sources for inspiration for later authors of the 19th and 20th century."
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Motivations in "Mansfield Park", 2005.
An analysis of the success of Henry and Mary Crawford's seduction of Fanny Price and Edmund Bertram in Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park".
1,896 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, APA, £ 38.95
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This paper focuses primarily on the methods used by Henry and Mary Crawford to seduce Fanny Price and Edmund Bertram, respectively, and why these methods succeed in some instances-and with specific characters-and fail in others. It looks at why Edmund and Fanny turn down their seducers for a more fulfilling relationship together: After being raised as brother and sister, but only sharing blood as cousins since they have an unparalleled and sincere love which cannot be found or forged outside of the family bloodline.
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"Austen creates a novel version of the morality play in which Fanny and Mary personify the characteristics with which they are associated. Fanny represents every trait that will enable Edmund to live a spiritually enlightened and fulfilling life. Mary represents material and physical temptations that frustrate and prohibit spiritual growth and development. Throughout the first two volumes of the text, Edmund symbolically leaves Fanny to pursue Mary and her overwhelming temptations: Fanny is first left to cut roses under the ascendancy of Mrs. Norris while Edmund teaches Mary to ride Fanny's horse (63-5). "
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The Importance of Place in Jane Austen?s "Mansfield Park", 2001.
A woman's physical residence and status in the social hierarchy in "Mansfield Park."
1,115 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, MLA, £ 24.95
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This essay questions whether one?s innate nature or the environment in which one is raised determines one?s character according to Jane Austen. The essay explains the historical background of the great estates that had traditionally been symbols of social and familial stability. Now the new commercial classes were trying to buy their way into society by acquiring great estates. The essay deals with the conflict between tradition and improvement and concludes that Austen leaves us with the sense that while place is not an absolute determinant of success, there is value in trying to continue the great estate system with those that truly understand and appreciate what it can do.
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"Like most women of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Fanny?s ?place? will be determined by the status and position of the man she marries. This is true both in terms of her place in the social hierarchy as well as the physical place where she will live in society. Her mother, for example, married ?unwisely? for love and ended up with a low social and family position. She lives in poverty in urban Portsmouth. Fanny?s aunt, Lady Bertram, on the other hand, married for social position and lives in comfort at Mansfield Park, a member of the landed gentry."
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Austen: "Mansfield Park", 1995.
Discusses Jane Austen's use of irony, interpersonal relations governed by status and the rules of social class in her novels of manners, specifically "Mansfield Park".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, £ 14.95
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"Jane Austen was noted as a novelist of manners whose works are structured around irony and interpersonal relations governed by status and the rules of social class. Mansfield Park is a novel abut Sir Thomas Bertram and his family, representatives of the landed gentry in the time of the writing of the novel. It might seem then that the story was so much a product of a time and place that it had little to say to our contemporary society, but this is not the case. Austen above all is a novelist who delves deeply into human character, and people then and people today are not that different in what they want from life or in how they relate to other people at a basic level.
We may have little in common with the landed gentry in terms of their economic or social position. For one thing, the stratification of British society in general is foreign to us ..."
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Jane Austen as a Conservative Writer, 2005.
An analysis of "Mansfield Park" and "Pride and Prejudice" in order to display how Jane Austen uses conservative conventions to display subtle social criticism.
2,474 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 47.95
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This paper examines Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" and "Pride and Prejudice" in an attempt to argue that Austen is most definitely not a conservative writer. Concentrating specifically on her portrayal of women, the family, marriage, and her subtle criticism of patriarchal systems, the aim is to demonstrate how Austen uses conservative conventions to conceal her ambiguous feelings toward social customs. It contrasts surface meanings of the text with close critical readings of selected characters and events in order to show the subtlety Austen adopts to present social criticism. The characters of Fanny Price of "Mansfield Park" and Elizabeth Bennet of "Pride and Prejudice" are of particular importance to this argument.
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"On the surface, Mansfield Park appears to be a more conservative novel than Pride and Prejudice. The heroine, Fanny Price, seems to be an ideal conduct-book heroine, as she is what Hester Chapone terms 'private and domestic.' She is described in the novel as 'the perfect model of a woman' mainly because her emotional responses remain internalised and private as opposed to the open and frank mannered Elizabeth. Considering the contrast between the heroines of Mansfield Park and Pride and Prejudice, indeed, Fanny undoubtedly appears to be a more conservative character than Elizabeth. However, a closer reading of the text leaves Mansfield Park as the more radical of the two. Mansfield Park was the first of Austen's novels to be written and published in her maturity."
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Cross-Class Relationships, 2009.
A comparison of the cross-class relationships in Jane Austen's novel "Mansfield Park", and Elizabeth Gaskell's novel, "North and South".
1,883 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 38.95
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The paper compares cross-class relationships in Jane Austen's novel "Mansfield Park", and Elizabeth Gaskell's novel, "North and South". The paper notes that both novels portray characters from different classes and backgrounds and that cross-class relationships are important in both texts as they represent the struggle between rural and urban living and the clash between the classes and current issues in the 1800s. The paper notes that the two different societies appeared to be in transition and this is represented in both texts through the use of cross-class relationships.
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"Austen seems to be commenting that even though the trading of slaves had been abolished, slaves were still being used. Sir Thomas is shown as a wealthy, upper-middle class man, yet his wealth is rooted in the lowest class - slaves. Austen appears to be questioning the moral correctness of this in the text. The power shown in both of the authoritarian characters represents the power that class had in the 1800's. In North and South language is used to represent the differences in the two classes."
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"The Play's the Thing", 1999.
Jane Austen's use of lovers' vows in "Mansfield Park".
2,593 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 2 sources, £ 49.95
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One of the great debated questions in literature is, ?Is art supposed to reflect life as it is, as it should be, or is art for art?s sake enough?? Jane Austen uses a play in her novel to suggest that art has something to teach its hearers, readers, or watchers. Austen uses a German romantic play, Lovers? Vows, to hold up the mirror of reality on the world she creates at Mansfield Park. The novel?s characters have striking similarities in nature and situation to the characters they portray in the play. Jane Austen shows these similarities to her readers, and then, in an ironic move doesn?t allow the characters to see the similarities themselves. When the play is cancelled altogether, and social ?tragedy? strikes the family later in the work, the reader can?t help but wonder if the entire mess could have been avoided if the novel characters had learned something from the play.
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"Usually, when a play is introduced into a work of fiction, the author is asking his or her audience to think about the nature of drama in general. Although the implementation of the play Lovers? Vows into Mansfield Park does take some consideration on theatre in general, the play itself is much more important to the novel than as just any given piece of theatre. Lovers? Vows is introduced into Jane Austen?s book because it illustrates and emphasizes two major themes in the novel; first, the theme of a woman?s right to choose her own husband, and second the theme of marriage for love rather than marriage for money. The play Lovers? Vows illustrates both of these themes, but accomplishes a greater task by establishing the novel as a mirror to the society in which Austen lived."
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Jane Austen, 2001.
"Analysis of "Mansfield Park" as embodying a conservative social view, except for marriage. Discusses the novel's various types of marriages and the concept of "equal partners" as the basis for a good marriage.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 3 sources, £ 40.95
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"In Mansfield Park Jane Austen is a staunch defender of the idea of conserving the way of life of the landed gentry that was threatened by changes in society. But her conservatism does not extend to her view of marriage. In terms of the relationship between men and women Austen's novel clearly conveys her sense of the need for an equality of relations as the basis of a marriage that works. The two people need not be the same or possess the same abilities and talents. But they must be complementary and one person, traditionally the man, cannot bear the entire weight. Her general outlook on gender relationships was not radical. She believed in marriage and she believed in it as the foundation of the life that she felt should be protected from the advance of the new spirit in society. Indeed the most radical thing about Jane Austen was that she believed that the colloquial domestic..."
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Illinois Association of Park Districts (IAPD), 2004.
This paper relates the history and function of the Illinois Association of Park Districts (IAPD) and other agencies relating to parks, recreation, and wildlife conservation.
3,900 words (approx. 15.6 pages), 14 sources, APA, £ 67.95
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This paper relates that the Illinois Association of Park Districts (IAPD)
was founded as the Illinois Association of Conservation and Park Districts 75 years ago to establish and protection parks and to conserve wildlife. The author points out that the historic ?Park Law Codification Bill?, signed in 1951, combines all the various laws pertaining to the issues of park conservatism into one single section of the state law. The paper relates that, today, each of the more than 40 park districts, forests, and conservation parks in the state of Illinois has a police force to patrol, routinely enforcing laws regarding recreation, hunting, and boating, and especially the use of drugs and alcohol.
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"The DNR or the Illinois Department of Natural Resources states that its mission is to protect and manage and to conserve the various natural resources that the state of Illinois can very proudly boast of, and to provide those recreational opportunities to interested people that would not harm or spoil these natural resources in any manner. The Educational Department of the DNR was launched in the year 1995, with the primary aim of the development of educational methods and of the training methods involved in the conservation of natural resources of Illinois. It also was to provide hands on training for those persons wanting to indulge in the various outdoor activities that Illinois offers, such as snowmobiling, boating and hunting methods."
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The National Park Service, 2007.
A critical look at the US National Park Service (NPS) and the National Parks under their jurisdiction.
3,271 words (approx. 13.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 58.95
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The paper discusses how national parks in the US have various problems, including pollution stemming from inside and outside the parks and a present management that is seen as insufficient and contradictory. The paper discusses the structure, history and mission of the National Park Service (NPS). The paper looks at park system powers and the politics surrounding them. The paper concludes that a restructuring in the administration of the NPS might be in order, if only to gain more protection for the parks against 21st century environmental problems.
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Structure
History
Mission
Powers
Politics
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"Since 1916, more than 370 parks of great natural beauty and grandeur from Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands to the Hawaiian Islands have been managed and preserved by the National Park Service (NPS) which is a bureau of the United States Department of the Interior. Such great historic and natural treasures as the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone; are now parks that preserve the pristine animal habitats or echo the nation's history, such as the Gettysburg Battlefield or preserve such notable landscapes as Mesa Verde and parks along seashores, lakeshores, and river-ways. They also provide opportunities for outdoor activities, such as at Assateague Island and Lake Mead. (National Park Service 2006)."
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