Abstract:This essay argues that a close reading of language in Mansfield Park—especially the words "duty," "gratitude," "obligation," and "ought"—correlates patriarchy with mental slavery and marks Fanny Price as the text's representative slave. Yet, to borrow a phrase from William Blake, the same linguistic "mind forg'd manacles" that enchain Fanny also constrict the rest of the characters in the romance. In Mansfield Park, no person is free. Ultimately, the essay contends that Austen's romance unmasks patriarchy as an inescapable system of mental slavery, and it sheds light on the complexities and subtleties of language in this work as countless scholars have already done in Austen's other novels, which, unsurprisingly, often foreground the thematic importance of specific words in their very titles.

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“被迫屈服”：曼斯菲尔德公园的父权制语言和精神奴役制度

摘要：本文认为，仔细阅读曼斯菲尔德公园中的语言——尤其是“责任”、“感激”、“义务”和“应该”等词——将父权制与精神奴隶制联系起来，并将范妮·普莱斯标记为文本的代表奴隶。然而，借用威廉布莱克的一句话，同样的语言“思想锻造手铐”束缚了范妮，也限制了浪漫中的其他角色。在曼斯菲尔德公园，没有人是自由的。最终，这篇文章认为奥斯汀的浪漫主义揭露了父权制是一种不可避免的精神奴役制度，它揭示了这部作品中语言的复杂性和微妙之处，正如无数学者在奥斯汀的其他小说中所做的那样，不出所料，