Fanny Price travels from Portsmouth to Mansfield at the mere age of ten, due to strange circumstances at home .She leaves her mother, father, siblings and settles into a home where others are supposed to provide an ’allowance for her deficiencies’. Her lack of interest in art and music was looked down upon as an ailment ,however caution was taken in ensuring that a ‘difference’ is maintained between her cousins and her after all Fanny wasn't blessed with ‘wonderful memories’ like her cousins. This house was supposed to be home to her, but she always moved around nervous and uncomfortable in that house except when Edmund was around.
After Mr.Norris’s death when Fanny is 15, the question of Fanny’s displacement comes up again , as Mrs.Norris is delegated the job of upbringing Fanny up, as she quits the Parsonage and moves in a house near Mr.Thomas’s but Mrs.Norris rejects this proposal for she is a ‘poor, helpless, widow’. And Fanny’s fate is decided by her uncle and aunt. The feelings of abandonment, being uncared for, unwanted and being burdensome emerge.
After living for some years at Mansfield, Fanny travels back to Portsmouth; her childhood house. It would be expected that Fanny finds affinity with her birth home and connects with the people and things there but instead her earlier found insecurities and questions about her identity resurface. The apartment in Mansfield was nothing like the apartment in Portsmouth and she misses the ‘shape, light and furniture’ of Mansfield which shows how Fanny had started had internalized the Mansfield home as her real home ,even though she could not never openly refer to it as her own home. She misses the ‘boxes and the books’ and the comfort she would withdraw from them. Her old house had none of the things, Fanny had intrinsically integrated in her character and therefore in this house , she wasn't her true self she had evolved to become. Therefore, leaving Fanny as a displaced figure with no right to claim any of the two spaces as her home.
After Mr.Norris’s death when Fanny is 15, the question of Fanny’s displacement comes up again , as Mrs.Norris is delegated the job of upbringing Fanny up, as she quits the Parsonage and moves in a house near Mr.Thomas’s but Mrs.Norris rejects this proposal for she is a ‘poor, helpless, widow’. And Fanny’s fate is decided by her uncle and aunt. The feelings of abandonment, being uncared for, unwanted and being burdensome emerge.
After living for some years at Mansfield, Fanny travels back to Portsmouth; her childhood house. It would be expected that Fanny finds affinity with her birth home and connects with the people and things there but instead her earlier found insecurities and questions about her identity resurface. The apartment in Mansfield was nothing like the apartment in Portsmouth and she misses the ‘shape, light and furniture’ of Mansfield which shows how Fanny had started had internalized the Mansfield home as her real home ,even though she could not never openly refer to it as her own home. She misses the ‘boxes and the books’ and the comfort she would withdraw from them. Her old house had none of the things, Fanny had intrinsically integrated in her character and therefore in this house , she wasn't her true self she had evolved to become. Therefore, leaving Fanny as a displaced figure with no right to claim any of the two spaces as her home.
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