Mansfield Park (2007)
Plot Summary
The main character, Fanny Price, is a young girl from a poor family, raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, at Mansfield Park. She grows up with her four cousins, Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, but is always treated as inferior to them; only Edmund shows her real kindness. He is also the most virtuous of the siblings: Maria and Julia are vain and spoiled, while Tom is an irresponsible gambler. Over time, Fanny's gratitude for Edmund's kindness secretly grows into love.
When the children are grown, the stern patriarch Sir Thomas leaves them for two years to deal with problems on his plantation in Antigua. The siblings Henry and Mary Crawford arrive at the village, which begins a series of romantic entanglements. Mary and Edmund begin to form an attachment, though Edmund often worries that she lacks manners and disrespects his profession, that of clergyman. However, she is engaging and charming, and goes out of her way to befriend Fanny. Fanny fears that Mary has Edmund, and that love has blinded him to Mary's flaws. Henry Crawford plays with the affections of both Maria and Julia, despite the fact that Maria is already engaged to the dull, but very rich, Mr. Rushworth.
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Characters and Actors
- Fanny Price
- Billie Piper
- Edmund Bartram
- Blake Ritson
- Henry Crawford
- Joseph Beattie
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