[HPforGrownups] More Jane Austen

[Anita Hillin]

No: HPFGUIDX 76881



sylviablundell2001 <sylviablundell at aol.com> wrote:
I was thinking along thesame lines about Mansfield Park.  Harry could 
indeed represent poor downtrodden little Fanny Price, but who stands 
for boring Edmund Bertram and lovely Henry Crawford? Or am I pushing 
the parallels too far? 

akh: I've been thinking about this, too, and with some stretching and pulling, I thought Dumbledore COULD stand in for Edmund as the mentor who is admired, almost worshipped, but who is not without faults.  Henry's much trickier, but this is too much fun to give up.  

I was having more success comparing Mrs. Norris to Dolores Umbridge.  Both are spiteful, toadying (!), manipulative people who show blatant favoritism along with astoundingly bad judgment. From that, I suppose we could draw a few parallels between Sir Thomas Bertram and Cornelius Fudge:  flattered by Norris/Umbridge into making bad decisions, determined to keep Harry/Fanny in his/her place, unwilling (perhaps unable, in Sir Thomas's case) to see the reality before him, forced in the end to admit his own failings in dealing with issues.

Good game, though, isn't it! Shall we move on 
to Emma?

akh: I can't wait! ;-)

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