Mansfield Park

The main character of Mansfield Park is Fanny Price, a young girl from a poor family being raised by Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, her rich uncle and aunt. Fanny is raised along side four cousins, Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, always being treated as an inferior with only Edmund being kind. He is the 'good and kind' sibling, sisters Maria and Julia are vain and spoiled, and Tom is an irresponsible gambler.

Fanny grows to love Edmund, but keeps it secret. She is the protagonist of the book, but is often more like a shadow. Fanny observes, sometimes with trepidation, the flirtations, engagements and romances that take place at Mansfield Park.

One of the romantic intrigues is the growing relationship of Edmund and Mary. Mary, in her response to a scandal between her brother Henry, and Edmund's sister, Maria reveals her true character and lack of morals, causing Edmund to break it off with her. He returns home and "At exactly the time it should be so, and not a week sooner' Edmund realizes how important Fanny is to him.

Fanny has high morals in the story, enough so to cause some people to dislike her character. Many of the characters are found to be morally improved by the end of the telling of this story. Mansfield Park has been dramatized and filmed a number of times, most recently in 2007.

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