Episode 109: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, Vol. 2, Ch. 1-5
On The Literary Life Podcast this week, Angelina, Cindy and Thomas are continuing their series on Jane Austen\u2019s Mansfield Park. This is the third episode in the series. They open their discussion talking about the virtue of temperance and how Fanny Price embodies temperance. In looking at the plot and the reaction of various characters to Sir Thomas\u2019 return, they bring out more of Fanny\u2019s virtues in contrast to the vices of other players in this section. Other themes highlighted in this section are the harp as a symbol of harmony, the problem of self-focus, the qualities of nature, and the Cinderella story parallels Austen is playing with.
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Commonplace Quotes:He had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief.
Edward Hyde
Here, again, I would urge that appreciation is not a voluntary offering, but a debt we owe, and a debt we must acquire the means to pay by patient and humble study. In this, as in all the labours of the conscience seeking for instruction, we are enriched by our efforts; but self-culture should not be our object. Let us approach Art with the modest intention to pay a debt that we owe in learning to appreciate. So shall we escape the irritating ways of the connoisseur!
Charlotte Mason
To the Virgins, to Make Much of TimeThe temperate man is so well-ordered that he does not feel the temptations of passion or desire. There is a difficulty about temperance, too, since it is a virtue that consists chiefly of not doing things. The liveliness of action and imagery must occur chiefly among its opponents, and we know what is liable to happen in this situation, even when there is no doubt about where our moral sympathy should lie. We have seen it in many works of fiction. But Guyon remains a colorless hero, and there is neither a heroic trial nor a radiant climax to his quest.
Graham Hough
by Robert Herrick
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,\xa0
Old Time is still a-flying;\xa0
And this same flower that smiles today\xa0
Tomorrow will be dying.\xa0
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,\xa0
The higher he\u2019s a-getting,\xa0
The sooner will his race be run,\xa0
And nearer he\u2019s to setting.\xa0
That age is best which is the first,\xa0
When youth and blood are warmer;\xa0
But being spent, the worse, and worst\xa0
Times still succeed the former.\xa0
Then be not coy, but use your time,\xa0
And while ye may, go marry;\xa0
For having lost but once your prime,\xa0
You may forever tarry.
Lord Clarendon\u2019s History of the Great Rebellion by Edward Hyde
Ourselves by Charlotte Mason
A Preface to the Faerie Queene by Graham Hough
\u201cTintern Abbey\u201d by William Wordsworth
Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
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