I felt sympathy for Fanny, given her limitations imposed upon her due to her origin despite her moral sensibility/ superiority. But if I were with the Crawfords, would I appreciate this? Not sure.
She is the type of character that cannot be properly understood in another medium, given her interior life. I don´t know what to make of that. Did Austen ever meet a Fanny? How?
Two questions for the group discussion I hope can be touched upon.
Why is staging a play improper?
And where does Fanny´s moral sensibility / superiority come from?
I have a complicated parasocial relationship with Fanny Price. I used to relate to her very much as a lonely undergrad in the life sciences who was into 19th century literature. Nowadays my feelings are more conflicted. Her manner of thinking can come across as rather insular and priggish at times. Which hits differently in an era of nationalist populism.
I felt sympathy for Fanny, given her limitations imposed upon her due to her origin despite her moral sensibility/ superiority. But if I were with the Crawfords, would I appreciate this? Not sure.
She is the type of character that cannot be properly understood in another medium, given her interior life. I don´t know what to make of that. Did Austen ever meet a Fanny? How?
Two questions for the group discussion I hope can be touched upon.
Why is staging a play improper?
And where does Fanny´s moral sensibility / superiority come from?
I have a complicated parasocial relationship with Fanny Price. I used to relate to her very much as a lonely undergrad in the life sciences who was into 19th century literature. Nowadays my feelings are more conflicted. Her manner of thinking can come across as rather insular and priggish at times. Which hits differently in an era of nationalist populism.