Mansfield Park Lesson Plan

A stark contrast is drawn between Mary and Fanny in this section: "What was tranquility and comfort to Fanny was tediousness and vexation to Mary...one so easily satisfied, the other so unused to endure" (195). How has this been shown in the events of the novel?

Mary and Fanny have regularly been used as foils to one another, whether through their relationship with Edmund or more generally in their relationships to authority, but nowhere else in the novel is their difference put more succinctly than here. Fanny is indeed very easily satisfied, to the point that it is annoying for some readers. She accepts every insult, slight, or display of ignorance shown towards...