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This 5 page paper explores the factors that
determine a good marriage from the 19th century
woman's point of view. '… but everybody should
marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.'
Bibliography uses Jane Austen's
Mansfield Park as its only source.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BBaustMP.doc
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that, "you should always be modest; for, much as you know already, there is a great deal more for you to learn." Such were the counsels by which Mrs.
Norris assisted to form her nieces minds; and it is not very wonderful that, with all their promising talents and early information, they should be entirely deficient in the less
common acquirements of self-knowledge, generosity and humility. The Education of Daughters To the education of her daughters Lady Bertram paid not he smallest attention.
Had she possessed greater leisure for the service of her girls, she would probably have supposed it unnecessary, for they were under the care of a governess, with proper
masters, and could want nothing more. Austen tells us that "the Miss Bertrams continued to exercise their memories, practice their duets, and grow tall and womanly: and their
father saw them becoming in person, manner, and accomplishments, everything that could satisfy his anxiety. His daughters, he felt, while they retained the name of Bertram, must be
giving it new grace, and in quitting it, he trusted, would extend its respectable alliances;" So in the raising of daughters what has been
put before us, is a father who "trusts" everything will be fine, because at least there may be some land acquisition in the final result, and a mother who has
bought out of parenting altogether. Certainly an argument might be made that the two self-important Bertram girls provide a foil of opposites to the innocence of their recently-come-to-live-with them
cousin, Fanny, who says to Edmund Bertram, "I can never be important to any one." (Edmund) What is to prevent you?" Everything. My situation, my foolishness and
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