Mansfield Park. Mansfield Park is considered to be a 'sober novel'. It was published in three volumes. By then Austen had matured as a (1814) writer and was dealing with the ethnical constitution of the society from a female standpoint. The novel is critiquing the state of affairs prevailing in England at that point of time and the urbanization that led to degradation of morality and esteemed values which were characteristic of country's life. And the …
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…the ones who have the right to choose. Talking in context of marriage. Females in the novel are objectified . Every girl is seen formally introduced into the society and where she must dress up to 'capture' hearts. The whole object is to look like doll . The main protagonist Fanny too, goes through the same ritual. A formal ball is arranged for her, where Henry Crawford who finds in her a challenge, proposes her for marriage,