Mansfield Park Jane Eyre Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Time Period REGENCY VICTORIAN FIN DE SIECLE,

general end-of-century

Genre Satire Gothic Romance Gothic Horror

Domestic Comedy Fictional Detective Mystery

Autobiography
Situational Comedy
Bildungsroman

Coming-of-age

Narrative Style Omniscient First-person Third-person limited

third-person narrator narrator POV – Mr Utterson

Speech: Direct, Indirect First-person Epistolary

– Dr Jekyll, Dr Lanyon
Focalization

Irony

Themes Class Stratification Love/Marriage Duality of Man

Prejudice Family/Role of Good vs. Evil

Family
Individual Victorian
Development/Self-Disc Independence Repression/Hypocrisy/
overy
Social Class/Rules, Reputation
Moral Education/Masks Social Status
and Acts/Manners Friendship/Loyalty/
Gender Roles
Marriage/Social &Expectations Cronyism/Bachelorhoo
Mobility d
Religion/Spirituality
Money Lies and Deceit
Passions vs.
Flaws of Judgement Violence
Primogeniture/Unearne
d Wealth/Inheritance Gothic/Supernatura Religion/The
and Meritocracy l Supernatural

Town vs. Anxiety/Uncertainty Science &

Country/Estate Reason/Evolution vs.
Improvements Beauty Devolution
 Anxiety

Key 1-the trip to the “great 1-Gateshead Hall 1-Hyde tramples on a

Events/Location house,” Sotherton (the home of little girl
s Court (pp.60-84) Jane’s Aunt Reed),
Ch.1 to 4 2-Utterson is haunted
2-the plans to stage the by Enfield’s account of
play Lovers’ Vows at 2-Lowood meeting Mr Hyde
Mansfield (pp.95-135) Institution (Mr.
Brocklehurst’s 3-Hyde murders MP
3-Fanny’s long visit to school), Ch.5 to 10 Carew and goes
her Portsmouth home missing
(pp.294-351) 3-Thornfield Hall
(Rochester’s 4- Lanyon gives
home), Ch.11 to 27 Utterson a letter

Character key events 4-Marsh End (St. 5- Utterson finds Hyde

John Rivers’s dead in Jekyll’s clothes
home), Ch.28 to 35
6-Utterson reads
5-Ferndean Lanyon’s letter
(Rochester’s
second home), 7-The true identity of
Ch.36 to 38 Hyde is revealed by
Lanyon’s letter

Motifs Letters Fire Letters

City vs Countryside Mother figures Gothic

Parents & Surrogates Gothic Violence against

Innocents
The garden gate at The Madwoman
Southerton Silence
Prophetic Dreams
Gold chains Urban Terror
Moonlight
Fire in the East Room Jekyll’s
House/Laboratory
Architecture/
Improvements Hyde’s repulsive
appearance
Great Houses, Chapels
Lack of women
Most Useful Brian Southam – Susan L. Meyer – Katherine Linehan –
Critic Silence of the Bertrams Colonialism and Sex, Secrecy, and
the figurative Self-Alienation in
strategy of Jane Strange Case of Dr.
Eyre Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Characters At Mansfield Park 1-Gateshead Hall Dr Henry Jekyll, a
lawyer, doctor, scientist
Sir Thomas Bertram: of Mrs Reed etc.
Mansfield Park,
Northamptonshire, and John Reed Mr Edward Hyde, his
Jamaica. Baronet and evil self
Member of Parliament. Bessie
Married Maria Ward of Mr Gabriel Utterson,
Mr. Lloyd Jekyll’s lawyer and
Huntingdon circa 1770.
Uncle to Fanny Price. friend
Georgiana & Eliza
Reed Dr Hastie Lanyon, a
doctor and Jekyll’s
Uncle Reed
Lady Maria Bertram: of ex-friend
(deceased)
Mansfield Park. Nee
Maria Ward of Mr Poole, Jekyll’s
Huntingdon with £7,000 butler
dowry. Married Sir 2-Lowood
Thomas Bertram. Sister Mr Enfield, Utterson’s
Institution
to Mrs Norris and Mrs cousin
Frances Price. Mr. Brocklehurst
Mr Guest, Utterson’s
Children: Tom,
Helen Burns head clerk & a
Edmund, Maria, and
handwriting expert
Julia. Dog: Pug. Aunt to
Miss Temple
Fanny Price. Sir Danvers Carew, MP
murdered by Hyde

3-Thornfield Hall
Tom Bertram: of
Mansfield Park. Eldest
Edward Rochester
son of Sir Thomas and
Lady Bertram, age 25. Adele Varens
A gambler and a
wastrel. Mrs Alice Fairfax

Bertha Mason

Edmund Bertram: of Grace Poole

Mansfield Park. Second
son of Sir Thomas and Richard Mason
Lady Bertram, age 24.
Attends Eton and Mr Briggs
Oxford University.
Blanche Ingram
Ordained minister
COE. Rector of
Thornton Lacey, and
later Mansfield Park. 4-Marsh End
Hero. Marries his
cousin Fanny Price. St. John Rivers

Diana & Mary

Rivers
Maria Bertram: of
Mansfield Park. Eldest Rosamund Oliver
daughter of Sir Thomas
and Lady Bertram, age John Eyre
21. Cousin to Fanny
Price. Marries James
Rushworth of Sotherton 5-Ferndean
Court.
Rochester
(post-fire)

Julia Bertram: of
Mansfield Park. Second
daughter of Sir Thomas
and Lady Bertram, age
20. Cousin to Fanny
Price. Elopes with the
Hon. John Yates.

The Hon. John Yates:

Youngest son of an
Earl. Friend of Tom
Bertam with an interest
in acting and
theatricals. Elopes with
Julia Bertram

The Rev. Norris: of

Mansfield parsonage.
Marries Miss Ward of
Huntingdon. Friend of
Sir Thomas Bertram.
Rector of Mansfield and
later dies. Uncle to
Fanny Price and the
Bertram clan.
Mrs. Norris: of
Mansfield parsonage.
Nee Miss Ward of
Huntingdon (first name
not stated). Eldest
sister of Lady Maria
Bertram and Mrs.
Frances Price. Marries
a clergyman (The Rev
Norris), a friend of Sir
Thomas Bertram. Aunt
to Fanny Price and the
Bertram clan.

Dr. Grant: of Mansfield

parsonage, age 45.
Succeeds to Rector of
Mansfield after Rev. Mr.
Norris dies.
Brother-in-law to Henry
and Mary Crawford.
Made Dean of
Westminster.

Mrs. Grant: of
Mansfield parsonage.
Wife of Dr. Grant,
Rector of Mansfield.
Half sister to Henry and
Mary Crawford who
share the same mother.

At Sotherton Court

Mrs. Rushworth: of
Sotherton Court,
Northamptonshire.
Widow. Mother of
James Rushworth.
Along with Mrs Norris
promotes his marriage
to Maria Bertram.

Mr. James Rushworth:

of Sotherton Court,
Northamptonshire and
Wimpole Street,
London. Son of Mr.
(deceased) and Mrs.
Rushworth with
£12,000 a year. Marries
Maria Bertram.

In Town

Admiral Crawford: of
Hill Street, London.
Admiral in the Royal
Navy. Uncle of Henry
and Mary Crawford,
whom he raises after
their parent’s deaths.
When his wife dies, his
mistress moves in with
him, and Mary moves
out to Mansfield
Parsonage. Assists
William Price to obtain
his Lieutenant’s
commission.

Henry Crawford: of
London and
Everingham in Norfolk
with £4000 a year
income. Parents
deceased. Nephew of
Admiral Crawford who
raised him. Brother of
Mary Crawford.
Half-brother of Mrs.
Grant who share the
same mother. Runs off
with married Maria
Rushworth nee
Bertram.

Mary Crawford: of
London and Mansfield
parsonage, with a
£20,000 dowry. Parents
deceased. Niece of
Admiral Crawford who
raised her. Sister of
Henry Crawford.
Half-sister of Mrs Grant
who share the same
mother. Plays the harp.
Falls in love with
Edmund Bertram,
attempts to befriend
Fanny Price.

In Portsmouth

Lieutenant Price: of
Portsmouth. Retired
Officer in the Royal
Marines. Married
Frances Ward of
Huntingdon. Disabled
after 11 years of active
duty.

Mrs. Frances Price: of

Portsmouth. Nee
Frances Ward of
Huntingdon. Youngest
sister to Mrs. Norris
and Lady Bertram.
Married Lieutenant
Price of the Marines
causing a rift in family.
Children: William,
Fanny, Mary
(deceased), Susan,
John and Richard, Tom,
Charles, and Betsy.

Lieutenant William
Price: of Portsmouth.
Eldest son of Lt. and
Mrs. Price, age 19.
Joins the Royal Navy
and serves as
Midshipman with
Captain Marshall.
Assisted by Henry
Crawford’s uncle
Admiral Crawford, he
obtains the rank of
Second Lieutenant.
Fanny’s favorite sibling.

John Price: of
Portsmouth. Second
son of Lt. and Mrs.
Price.

Richard Price: of
Portsmouth. Third son
of Lt. and Mrs. Price.

Sam Price: of
Portsmouth. Fourth son
of Lt. and Mrs. Price,
age 11.

Charles Price: of
Portsmouth. Fifth son
of Lt. and Mrs. Price,
age 8.
Tom Price: of
Portsmouth. Sixth son
of Lt. and Frances
Price, age 9.

Fanny Price: of
Portsmouth and
Mansfield Park. Eldest
daughter of the Lt. and
Mrs Price, age 18.
Resides with her
cousins the Bertrams at
Mansfield Park.
Heroine. Marries her
cousin Edmund
Bertram.

Mary Price: of
Portsmouth. Second
daughter of Lt. and
Mrs. Price. Deceased

Susan Price: of
Portsmouth. Third
daughter of Lt. and
Mrs. Price. When 14,
moves to Mansfield
Park to take Fanny’s
place as Lady
Bertram’s companion.

Betsy Price: of
Portsmouth. Youngest
daughter of Lt. and
Mrs. Price, age 5.
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