http://mansfieldpark.wordpress.com A Commentary on the Novel Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:01:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://mansfieldpark.wordpress.com/introduction/#comment-122 | Um blogue dedicado a Mansfield Park | Jane Austen em português Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:01:36 +0000 http://mansfieldpark.wordpress.com/?page_id=6#comment-122 [...] ver que Chris gosta muito de Fanny por este pequeno trecho de seu post de introdução: The general critical reaction to Fanny Price I confess to find bewildering. Only thoroughly vulgar [...] [...] ver que Chris gosta muito de Fanny por este pequeno trecho de seu post de introdução: The general critical reaction to Fanny Price I confess to find bewildering. Only thoroughly vulgar [...]

]]> http://mansfieldpark.wordpress.com/introduction/#comment-75 iris wigle-cutforth Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:42:11 +0000 http://mansfieldpark.wordpress.com/?page_id=6#comment-75 Hold on!?! Fanny Price has some good qualities. I mean she cared about the blacks on the ship right? Just because all the blanks were not filled in for the reading audience doesn't mean that she was a complete moron. It is sad that there wasn't a second follow up of Mansfield Park. Even the name of the book gave the reader a hint. Women lived in a Man's Field Park but it was not all paradise. Truth be told, The Wigle family clan known around a town in Canada called Kingsville had been funded during the civil war by patrons from the UK. We may never know their true identities. The Wigle clan left Europe from Germany and arrived in the USA mid 1700's. They were known as the Pennsylvania Dutch only because the earliest USA officials had asked the group where they had come from and what languages they could speak and the reply was, "Dortch", which the officials thought was "Dutch". Thus, the history books called them The Pennsylavnia Dutch. The clan may not have even been German. El sometimes may or may not be a Jewish thing. The clan travelled with Germans as described by the historical novel, "The Trail of the Black Walnut" which took the clan from the USA to Canada under The Loyalist laws. Queen Victoria and other Royals had declared openly their hostility to the USA and other countries abducting blacks from Africa and turning them into slaves. Queen Victoria, as penned down by Buckingham Palace officals told USA officials that the Bible's law decreed that every slave was to be set free during what is called The Jubilee. The Jubilee is marked every fifty years but even if a slave was bought only a day or a month before the Bible, as set down by Jehovah God of Armies, was to be "set free". The Royals and supporters waited. In the meantime, historians told a truth, blacks had supporters in Canada. Monies were sent to clans like the Wigles to buy up contracts and help the blacks back to Africa or to any destination that they may have desired to travel. A small group of blacks stayed on the Wigle farm as pointed out by local historians as squatters working on local farms and these eventually moved towards the Essex, Ontario, region. The monies for this movement came from someone??? Dah! Why did Fanny not want to marry the modern day Robert Kennedy, Mr. Crawford, besides his roving eye? Because the pulpit was the seat of power and that was not what Mr. Crawford could give Fanny. She had, as shown affection for her cousin, but the audience doesn't buy that affection solidly. She is closer to Mr. Crawford's sister than anyone which may suggest that the two of them may have been eager for a reason to distant themselves from each other for the sake of secrecy but not as closet lovers. Mary Crawford was going to teach Fanny, how to manipulate certain "equations". The black slavery issue was an important part of the story even if for the most part it was kept in the background. Fanny could understand the issue of slavery for she herself was partner to the same form of molding. No one asked Fanny if she wanted to be a maid. She didn't fit in with high society nor with her poor family. Women had no rights. They did as they were told except for Mary Crawford who seemed to bend the rules to her own advantage. Manipulating is serious business. No...I don't think Fanny and Mary Crawford separated completely. Someone had to bring monies by boat...but that is just speculation. Hold on!?! Fanny Price has some good qualities. I mean she cared about the blacks on the ship right? Just because all the blanks were not filled in for the reading audience doesn’t mean that she was a complete moron. It is sad that there wasn’t a second follow up of Mansfield Park. Even the name of the book gave the reader a hint. Women lived in a Man’s Field Park but it was not all paradise. Truth be told, The Wigle family clan known around a town in Canada called Kingsville had been funded during the civil war by patrons from the UK. We may never know their true identities. The Wigle clan left Europe from Germany and arrived in the USA mid 1700’s. They were known as the Pennsylvania Dutch only because the earliest USA officials had asked the group where they had come from and what languages they could speak and the reply was, “Dortch”, which the officials thought was “Dutch”. Thus, the history books called them The Pennsylavnia Dutch. The clan may not have even been German. El sometimes may or may not be a Jewish thing. The clan travelled with Germans as described by the historical novel, “The Trail of the Black Walnut” which took the clan from the USA to Canada under The Loyalist laws. Queen Victoria and other Royals had declared openly their hostility to the USA and other countries abducting blacks from Africa and turning them into slaves. Queen Victoria, as penned down by Buckingham Palace officals told USA officials that the Bible’s law decreed that every slave was to be set free during what is called The Jubilee. The Jubilee is marked every fifty years but even if a slave was bought only a day or a month before the Bible, as set down by Jehovah God of Armies, was to be “set free”. The Royals and supporters waited. In the meantime, historians told a truth, blacks had supporters in Canada. Monies were sent to clans like the Wigles to buy up contracts and help the blacks back to Africa or to any destination that they may have desired to travel. A small group of blacks stayed on the Wigle farm as pointed out by local historians as squatters working on local farms and these eventually moved towards the Essex, Ontario, region. The monies for this movement came from someone??? Dah!
Why did Fanny not want to marry the modern day Robert Kennedy, Mr. Crawford, besides his roving eye? Because the pulpit was the seat of power and that was not what Mr. Crawford could give Fanny. She had, as shown affection for her cousin, but the audience doesn’t buy that affection solidly. She is closer to Mr. Crawford’s sister than anyone which may suggest that the two of them may have been eager for a reason to distant themselves from each other for the sake of secrecy but not as closet lovers. Mary Crawford was going to teach Fanny, how to manipulate certain “equations”. The black slavery issue was an important part of the story even if for the most part it was kept in the background. Fanny could understand the issue of slavery for she herself was partner to the same form of molding. No one asked Fanny if she wanted to be a maid. She didn’t fit in with high society nor with her poor family. Women had no rights. They did as they were told except for Mary Crawford who seemed to bend the rules to her own advantage. Manipulating is serious business. No…I don’t think Fanny and Mary Crawford separated completely. Someone had to bring monies by boat…but that is just speculation.

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