Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: Deeper Thoughts and Review

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Mansfield Park is Austen's third novel, published in 1814, and perhaps the most controversial. Mansfield Park is like a fairytale gone wrong, with the family embracing misrule in their father's absence, almost akin to A Midsummer Night's Dream.  On the surface, Mansfield Park shares many of the concerns of Austen's other novels. The dramatis personae are drawn from a band of society ranging from the most straitened of the middle class up to the minor nobility. The significant questions are who w...