Aspects of the Novel · Character
Lady Bertram
Austen's indolent aunt, cited as a flat character whose few strokes of habit are enough to fix her permanently in the reader's mind.
supporting
Also known as Bertram
First appearance: iii people
As a supporting figure in Aspects of the Novel, Lady Bertram is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
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Lady Bertram belongs to the shrubbery of Mansfield Park, bound by a hundred threads to Highbury's social fabric and impossible to transplant without uprooting the whole. She is Forster's clean example of a flat…
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- Professional
- Family
- Other
Character groups
- Flat characters and authorial technique
- Diverse characters and narrative theory
- Protagonist
- Character transformation and flatness
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- Jane Austen
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- Fanny
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- Fanny
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