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Austen herself noted that debate when she conducted a reader survey, recording her acquaintances’ mixed reviews in a booklet she entitled “Opinions of Mansfield Park.” Is this novel’s dutiful heroine, Fanny Price, admirable? Or is she (as Austen’s own mother asserted) “insipid”? Is Fanny actually the heroine, or does that title belong more properly to her rival, Mary Crawford? Does Fanny’s uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, act as her benefactor, or as a domestic tyrant? In her notes and introduction to this final volume in Harvard’s celebrated annotated Austen series, Deidre Shauna Lynch outlines the critical disagreements Mansfield Park has sparked and suggests that Austen’s design in writing the novel was to highlight, not downplay, the conflicted feelings its plot and heroine can inspire. It will ruin your whole experience of the novel.Jane Austen’s most ambitious novel, Mansfield Park, has always generated debate. If you have read the book, don't bother with this. If you haven't read the book you'll probably enjoy it. I really don't know what the filmmakers were thinking with this adaptation - they probably weren't!! At any rate, it is only because Jane Austen is long dead that they would dare to produce this version. She is dull and boring by today's standards, but her disposition was admirable during the time that she lived. To attempt to portray Fanny in this light is missing the point of her whole character.

In short, she is not Elizabeth Bennet and she never will be. She was never outspoken, headstrong or feisty. Fanny is supposed to be shy, submissive, compassionate and pious. This is probably the most difficult of Austen's novels to bring to the big screen because the characters are so much a product of their time. What has this movie done to a book as charming as 'Mansfield Park'?! The storyline has been altered until it is virtually unrecognisable! Fanny Price is nothing like she is in the book, the other characters have been equally changed for the worst and as far as I could tell hardly any of Austen's witty prose has been retained!! It seems this adaptation is 'Mansfield Park' in name only.