ENG323H1 Lecture 16: Lecture 16 - 131104.doc
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Edmund wants to be a clergyman and mary discovers it when julia says he should marry maria and mr. rushworth. Mary"s upset because she doesn"t think he can earn as much money as he could in another profession (with the mindset that she could marry him) Notion that you could compete with god for a man is one that austen found really compelling. One of the ways mary isn"t like miss milner (a simple story) is that she"s not the heroine of the story. Only novel of austen"s to be named for a place: centrality of the house and the estate to what happened in the book. Second and third chapter, it focalizes on fanny first character with a. In first chapter, it shift between aunt norris and sir thomas childhood (austen"s more victorian novel, away from 18th century tradition) the crawfords (attention shifts to mary crawford, so makes one to expect her to be the heroine)
