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TRUTHS UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED: SOCIAL COMMENTARY IN MANSFIELD PARK
Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, for example, has everything in his favor-wealth, breeding, good looks -but these would be much less valuable than they are if Elizabeth did not in the course of the novel discover in him inherent modesty, even shyness. The gentle classes - that is, the upper-middle class through the aristocracy - indeed privilege gentleness, which is tied to moral decency but includes all aspects of a civilized life. When Fanny Price in Mansfield Park goes \"home\" to her birth parents, she is horrified at the noise, the dirt, the lack of courtesy, the lack of even the most elementary necessities for civilized living. The pattern of these moral issues, while it is present in all of Austen's major novels, is most prominent in Mansfield Park, which is, among other things, the story of an earnest young clergyman's search for an equally morally centered mate. Every aspect of Mansfield Park, the perspectives on social classes, the decision to put on a play and the choice of the play itself, and the relationships among the characters, develops within the moral webbing of the book. [...]these definitions are all upper-class; the poor and laboring classes did not leave us much record of their own musings on such subjects.1) Austen's peers knew exactly what constituted a moral person.
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