Mansfield park novel5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() By their use, the behaviour and expectations towards other people during this period are shown. This is the reason for these two Austen novels being chosen. ![]() The heroines of said novels, Fanny Price and Anne Elliot, are Austen's two heroines not appearing strong and autonomous from the beginning on, but developing to become so. Thus, this thesis examines the human inner and outer values during the English Regency and the Victorian period. Conduct describes the shown behaviour of a person, determinable by their actions. Morality is a term describing the inner, partly learned notions. This master thesis examines Jane Austen's representation of morality and conduct in her two novels Mansfield Park (1814) and Persuasion (1818), as these two novels reflect the notion of the named aspects during the English Regency Period and Victorian time. In his view, sensible men do only dally with women, as they in truth do only possess two passions: love and vanity, (ibid.) Women are only grown-up children knowing how to chat in an entertaining, sometimes even funny way, but do not possess any reason nor sober consideration. In his whole life, the earl of Chesterfield writes to his son in 1753 (Stanhope, 1753/2009: 107), he was never able to meet a woman possessing reason or consideration, or behaving consequently for twenty-four hours. To be friendly is one of the first of social duties to enjoy the pleasures of friendship is one of the first objects of society. ![]()
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