Remember that there are is no response due on Monday; instead, we'll do an in-class response based on a specific passage. Consider some of the ideas we've been discussing throughout the week, such as:
* the education of women, particularly daughters
* the relationship of mothers and daughters (and to a lesser extent, fathers and children)
* ideas of propriety and morals: what does good and 'right' conduct mean?
* Being natural vs. artificial--acting vs. being (particularly when theater is involved!)
* feminism vs. domesticity: what role does Austen champion for the modern woman?
* Fanny's character: Rasselas or Imlac? (or neither?)
* Mary and Henry Crawford: dashing anti-heroes or simply bad guys?
* The novel of manners: do characters grow and develop in Austen's novels or serve as allegories (as in Johnson)? Can Henry Crawford change? Become more complex? Can Edmund? Can Fanny?
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