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Mary & Edmund Fanny & Mary Fanny & Henry Fanny & William Mary &

Mary & Edmund Fanny & Mary Fanny & Henry Fanny & William Mary & Henry Mansfield Park (III) Family & Social Games Chap 24 -31 - 36 (II: 6 - III: 5) 7_I am come to make my own apologies 36_Good, gentle Fanny 24_William was often called on by his uncle to be the talker 28_Conducted by Mr. Crawford to the top of the room Image Source

Why does Henry woo Fanny? Why is Mary more receptive to Edmund? Through --

Why does Henry woo Fanny? Why is Mary more receptive to Edmund? Through -- Family Relations & Friendship -- Social Games: Card Game, Gift Exchange, Courtship & Persuasion, what do we find out about the characters’ values? City , Social Status, Heroism, Conquest & Rivalry, Play-Acting Nature, Gratitude, Love, Constancy Family & Social Games

Group Discussion 1 Leader or Reader 1 -2 Summarizer & Vocabulary (3 words) 3

Group Discussion 1 Leader or Reader 1 -2 Summarizer & Vocabulary (3 words) 3 -4 (7) Commentator& Quotations as evidence 5 -6 Connector –theme and related examples from the other parts of the novel

 10. The Ball & the Two Proposals: Why does Henry change and how

10. The Ball & the Two Proposals: Why does Henry change and how does he express himself? 9. Fanny & Edmund: How do the two of them look at Henry’s proposal differently? 8. Sir Thomas Fanny: Why is Sir Thomas surprised by Fanny’s rejection of Henry? What does he then do (or not do)? 7 -6. How do Mary (7) and Henry (6) use their friendship with Fanny, Edmund and Sir Thomas respectively to get closer to the objects of their love? Are they sincere? Group 4. [Mary Fanny], and how does she view friendship? Discussion 5. [Henry Edmund & Sir Thomas], and how does he appeal to them? 5. Card Games: How does the game Speculation reveal the players’ personalities? 4. Gift Exchange: What is implied in the necklace episode in the exchange of gifts and emotions? 3. Taste & Reading: What is revealed in Henry’s interest in landscaping (improvement of Sotherton & Thornton Lacey) and reading? How does he share his values with Edmund?

2 nd Proposal 33 Decides to propose 30 31 Q 10: The Ball &

2 nd Proposal 33 Decides to propose 30 31 Q 10: The Ball & the Two Proposals: Dig a hole in her heart 24 28 28_Conducted by Mr. Crawford to the top of the room 30_Returning to her seat to finish a note 31_ "No, no!" she cried, hiding her face Image Source Henry--why does he change and how does he express himself? 34 -- Reading 35 -- Edmund 36 -- Mary -- The Crawfords gone 34 -36

Bertrams (Maria) Maria Edmund Julia Affectionate Exchange Fanny Patronage Francis Norris Wards Sir Thomas

Bertrams (Maria) Maria Edmund Julia Affectionate Exchange Fanny Patronage Francis Norris Wards Sir Thomas Lady Bertram Tom (oldest. ) William Fanny Price Admiral & wife + mistress Betsy Susan Mrs. Grant Half-sister Henry Mary The Frasers Families in Mansfield Park: Primogeniture, Courtship & Marriage Market: Position, Rivalry & Influences

Q 9 -8: Family Relations: Primogeniture, Courtship & Marriage Market 9. How do the

Q 9 -8: Family Relations: Primogeniture, Courtship & Marriage Market 9. How do the customs in marriage (e. g. primogeniture, courtship and women’s obligation to marriage) influence the characters’ family relations and positions? Tom Maria & Julia (Rivalry) Fanny & Edmund: How do the two of them look at Henry’s proposal differently? 8. How do parents (try to) influence their children? Sir Thomas and Admiral; Sir Thomas Fanny: Why is Sir Thomas surprised by Fanny’s rejection of Henry? What does he then do (or not do)? Admiral * Henry

Q 7 -6: Friendship How do Henry and Mary use their friendship with Edmund,

Q 7 -6: Friendship How do Henry and Mary use their friendship with Edmund, Sir Thomas and Fanny respectively to get closer to the objects of their love? 7. [Mary Fanny], and how does she view friendship? 6. [Henry Edmund & Sir Thomas], and how does he appeal to them?

 5. Card Games: How does the game speculation reveal the players’ personalities? Q

5. Card Games: How does the game speculation reveal the players’ personalities? Q 5 -3: Card Games & Gift Exchange a form of entertainment that may involve calculation, speculation and competition Like the walk in the Sotherton park episode, the characters’ roles in the games are suggestive of their roles in the novel Speculation: guesses, opportunist guesses for financial gains 4. Gift Exchange: What is implied in the necklace episode in the exchange of gifts and emotions? Involves different forms of indebtedness & obligation (gratitude) marriage (of Lady Bertram and Maria), adoption (of Fanny), promotion (William) money (Edmund, Lady Bertram, Mrs. Norris to Williams) Affectionate gift (necklace, cross) 3. Taste & Reading: What is revealed in Henry’s interest in landscaping (improvement) and reading? How does he share his values with Edmund?

Card Games & Social Lady Birtram Relations Henry Fanny Speculation Card Games in Pride

Card Games & Social Lady Birtram Relations Henry Fanny Speculation Card Games in Pride & Prejudice William Thornton Lacey Mary Sr. Thomas Whist Edmund Mrs. Norris Chap 25 (II: 7) Card Games At Mrs. Grant’s The Grants

 In between Henry and Fanny, where does Mary stand? Compare chapters 24, 26

In between Henry and Fanny, where does Mary stand? Compare chapters 24, 26 (9), 30 and 36 (10) 2 -1

24. Henry Fanny • Henry intends to dig a hole in F’s heart [love?

24. Henry Fanny • Henry intends to dig a hole in F’s heart [love? ] • Discusses it with Mary [friend? ] • William is back, Henry is attracted to both sister and brother Plot Summary: Chap 24 -27 source 25: card games & courtship • The game speculation • Henry discusses how Thorton Lacey can be improved (// his improvement plan at Sotherton) • Edmund’s career discussed • William about dancing and his position 26 The ball prepared • By Sir Thomas, not Mrs. Norris • Fanny’s cares • Edmund’s (yes and no) • Mary’s gift of a necklace 27. The ball prepared • Edmund presents a necklace, too • Ed. Expresses his love for both women • Ed & Fanny discuss Mary

28. The Ball • Edmund asks to dance with Fanny; Henry asks for the

28. The Ball • Edmund asks to dance with Fanny; Henry asks for the 1 st 2 dances • A lot of hard work to talk in this social occasion • F explains the source of the 2 nd necklace; F leads the ball; Mary asks F about Ed [friend? ]; Ed dances w/ F Plot Summary: Chap 28 -31 source 29. Departures • Henry, William & Edmund gone • Fanny relieved but Mary bored, asking about Ms Owens [friend] 30 Henry back • Discusses with Mary his love for Fanny • Mary's responses? 31. Henry takes action • "He is made" • H expresses his attachment to F

32 33 34 35 Plot Summary: Chap 24 -31 36 source • Sir Thomas

32 33 34 35 Plot Summary: Chap 24 -31 36 source • Sir Thomas visits the East Room to talk to Fanny. • Henry will not take no for an answer, and Sir Thomas is encouraging. • The aunts are told. • Edmund returns. • Henry reads Shakespeare after dinner. Public speaking, sermons and liturgy are discussed. • Edmund and Fanny talk things over. • The ladies of the parsonage are not happy with Miss Price. • Perhaps a little more time will change her mind. • Fanny and Mary meet again in the East Room. Mary discusses the friends she is going to visit. The truth of Mary's necklace.

 (24) With both Maria and Julia gone, Henry intends to dig a hole

(24) With both Maria and Julia gone, Henry intends to dig a hole in F’s heart; Henry’s Love for Fanny: His Changes Sweet and gentle; Hard to get make her feel sad when he leaves* Mary’s reasons: her dress (24) William is back, Henry is attracted to the sister and brother’s affection for each other* William’s heroic deeds: “He wishes he had been a William Price…he found it was as well to be a man of fortune” (162)

Henry’s Love for Fanny: His Changes (2) [the ball, necklace] (30) determined to marry

Henry’s Love for Fanny: His Changes (2) [the ball, necklace] (30) determined to marry Fanny Mary’s: “a sweet little wife, all gratitude and devotion, ” with good connections His Reasons: Her beauty; “[t]he gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character’; Her conduct, notion of honor and observance of decorum Someone to confide to. (200 -201) His two proposals—or three: uses family love to win her; (33) takes no as a new challenge; * does not take a ‘no’ for no!!! He seems truly grieved upon leaving her.

 Fanny’s immediate responses: surprise & anger* Her reasons against it: 9. Fanny &

Fanny’s immediate responses: surprise & anger* Her reasons against it: 9. Fanny & Edmund Henry’s proposal He seems earnest, but she believes it’s “no more than what he might often have expressed towards her cousins and fifty other women. (209) (To Edmund): They are “totally unlike” (To Edmund & Mary): She disapprove of his character Henry flirts with Maria and Julia

9. Fanny & Edmund Henry’s proposal Edmund: 1) Finds that Henry “began at the

9. Fanny & Edmund Henry’s proposal Edmund: 1) Finds that Henry “began at the wrong end” (rushes) 2) finds Henry persevere without the other’s encouragement; 3) finds their common interest in reading His persuasion: 1) starts with building sympathy (I will not support marriage without love) 2) Henry is too rushed, but “let him succeed at last”* 3) you have common interests 4) opposition: “Some opposition here is, I am thoroughly convinced, friendly to matrimonial happiness. ” 5) It could be Maria and Julia’s problem.

Fanny “I should have thought, ” said Fanny, after a pause of recollection and

Fanny “I should have thought, ” said Fanny, after a pause of recollection and exertion, “that every woman must have felt the possibility of a man’s not being approved, not being loved by some one 9. Fanny of her sex at least, let him be ever so generally & Edmund agreeable. Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as Henry’s certain that a man must be acceptable to every proposal woman he may happen to like himself. But, even supposing it is so, allowing Mr. Crawford to have all the claims which his sisters think he has, how was I to be prepared to meet him with any feeling answerable to his own? He took me wholly by surprise. (239 -40) Edmund “My dear, dear Fanny, now I have the truth. I know this to be the truth… I told them, that you were of all human creatures the one, over whom habit had most power, and novelty least” (240)

Fanny: “I cannot like him, Sir, well enough to marry him. ”; cannot bring

Fanny: “I cannot like him, Sir, well enough to marry him. ”; cannot bring up her disagreement with him (to not involve Maria and Julia) 8. Sir Thomas’s Responses -A patriarch who protects his sons & finds Fanny selfish Sir Thomas: all about connections 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) His fortune His agreeable character His sister is your friend He helps William get promoted He wants to marry at a young age Why? Suspecting Fanny’s affection for one of his sons. “He paused and eyed her fixedly. He saw her lips formed into a no, though the sound was inarticulate, but her face was like scarlet. ” (214) Scolds Fanny for being selfish: “wilful and perverse” (215) He then softens, and starts to use some tactics: Provides fire at the East Room 2 nd proposal from Henry, Edmund’s persuasion sending Fanny back home.

 He then softens, and starts to use some tactics: 8. Sir Thomas’s Responses

He then softens, and starts to use some tactics: 8. Sir Thomas’s Responses -A patriarch who schemes and reasons Provides fire at the East Room 2 nd proposal from Henry, Edmund’s persuasion sending Fanny back home. To Fanny (after the 2 nd proposal): “You cannot suppose me capable of trying to persuade you to marry against your inclinations. Your happiness and advantage are all that I have in view, and nothing is required of you but to bear with Mr. Crawford's endeavors to convince you, that they may not be incompatible with his. He proceeds at his own risk. You are on safe ground” (224)

4. [Mary Fanny], and how does she view friendship? 5. [Henry Edmund & Sir

4. [Mary Fanny], and how does she view friendship? 5. [Henry Edmund & Sir Thomas], and how does he appeal to them? Mary Henry 1) Befriending to Fanny; Sir Thomas: --supporting her when Mrs. Norris finds fault with the latter -- playing harp for her -- visiting F before the ball to give her both advice and a necklace (actually for Henry) 2) The two visit each other more often after Maria’s marriage 3) Tries to get news about Edmund when he is away conquers him first Tells Sir Thomas that Fanny takes the proposal positively. Establishes a gentlemanly agreement after the 2 nd rejection. * ST knows that he will not stay interested for long. Edmund: the issue of clergy’s sermon. (wit + sentiment + seriousness)

Mary on Friendship "Yes, very true. Mrs. Fraser has been my intimate friend for

Mary on Friendship "Yes, very true. Mrs. Fraser has been my intimate friend for years. But I have not the least inclination to go near her. I can think only of the friends I am leaving; my excellent sister, yourself, and the Bertrams in general. You have all so much more heart among you, than one finds in the world at large. You all give me a feeling of being able to trust and confide in you; which, in common intercourse, one knows nothing of. I wish I had settled with Mrs. Frasef not to go to her till after Easter, a much better time for the visit—but now I cannot put her off. And when I have done with her, I must go to her sister, Lady Stornaway, because she was rather my most particular friend of the two; but I have not cared much for her these three years. ” (244)

Card Games [Sir Thomas: does not want to play it] Lady Birtram: asks ST

Card Games [Sir Thomas: does not want to play it] Lady Birtram: asks ST what she should play; asks Fanny to teach her; does not understand the rules (“Excuse me, your ladyship must not see your cards” [167]) Henry: play 3 hands Fanny: masters it right away; cannot compete* Mary: negotiates for William Price's knave; she wins the game

 (24) asks Henry to not hurt Fanny, but leaves her to her fate

(24) asks Henry to not hurt Fanny, but leaves her to her fate Mary: chapters 24, 26 (2) 30 and 36 (1) (25) angry at Sir Thomas for extinguishing her dream of turning Thornton Lacey into a real estate (but not a poor parsonage) (26) offers Fanny advice, as well as the necklace (27) Edmund worried; Mary said that it will be their last two dances (28: the Ball) (29) Mary bored, asking about Ms Owens; she changes her mind about Edmund (30) Henry back, starting to take action; Mary feels happy for them, both feel that Fanny will say yes.

 Mary’s persuasion Mary & her rambling speech & thought which are reveals her

Mary’s persuasion Mary & her rambling speech & thought which are reveals her and social problems (243 -45) anger of a sister and a friend* falls into rapturous memories about the previous East Room scene (self-centered) Says goodbye affectionately* [Fanny] “But you are only going from one set of friends to another. You are going to a very particular friend. ” Mary about friends; again remembers the past (East Room) talks about the responses in London (“transport” you to London), which only reveals unhappiness of the couple she knows and the kinds of women that fall for Henry (244 -45)

 You are aware of it. (Re. the necklace) Mary’s attacks & Fanny’s Self.

You are aware of it. (Re. the necklace) Mary’s attacks & Fanny’s Self. Assertion “for there was something in your look that frightened me—but not at first—I was as unsuspicious of it at first!—indeed, indeed I was. ” his ”particularity”= his way; “I was quiet, but I was not blind. I could not but see that Mr. Crawford allowed himself in gallantries which did mean nothing. ” The glory of fixing one who has been shot by so many Emotional appeals: William Write; visit Mrs. Grant

1 2/25 Mansfield Park Introduction & (1) Chap: 1 -8 (60 pages) Cinderella in

1 2/25 Mansfield Park Introduction & (1) Chap: 1 -8 (60 pages) Cinderella in MP as a Society of Landed Gentry 2 3 3/3 Summary, Quiz: Mansfield Park (2. 1): Chap 9 -14 (60 pages) -- Sotherton & Lovers’ Vows 3/10 Mansfield Park (2. 2) Chap 9 -23/I: 12 - II: 5 4 5 6 7 Conservatism vs. Liberalism: What’s Wrong? 3/17 Summary, Quiz: Mansfield Park (3. 1) Chap 24 -31/ II: 5 -II: 13 (53 pages)--Henry’s Love: Why not? 3/24 Mansfield Park (3. 2) Chap 24 - 36 (II: 6 - III: 5) Home, Class & Love 3/31 -Spring Break 4/7 Mansfield Park (4) Chap 37 -48 (Vol III: 6 -17; 80 pages) British Empire: Its Order and Boundaries Reading and Discussion Schedule

 Speculation: http: //www. davidparlett. co. uk/hi stocs/speculat. html Reference

Speculation: http: //www. davidparlett. co. uk/hi stocs/speculat. html Reference