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has anyone noticed how jane austen puts a vicar character in all her novels ill list just the one i notice?
Mr Collins- Pride and Prejudice, Edward Ferrars- Sense and Sensibility, Edmund Betram - Mansfield Park i know that her father was a vicar do you think this had something to do with it?
gabster you're right about persuasion but northanger abbey has Mr Allen who she goes to Bath with and when talking to Henry about them she mentions their town parsonage ( where a vicar lives also sometimes known as a vicarage)
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
oh yeah you are quite right. i had never noticed before. her father probably did have something to do with it. i went to her house which is a museum and i read somewhere that she greatly respected him so maybe it was her way of honouring him? :)
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Her father being a vicar probably had something to do with it, however, you must realize that during the time that she lived, the vicar was a big part of community life. Everyone went to church, and the vicar also interacted a lot with his parishioners. It was no big deal to see a vicar at a party or a social gathering. Especially with younger vicars, they like every other young man were looking for a wife. So vicars were an integral part of life, and they usually make for funny or interesting characters in novels.
- jennyla52000Lv 41 decade ago
Yes. Remember that her father was a vicar as well as one of her brothers. The mentioning of vicars as silly men in her novels is a sort of homage as well as a satire. She also does the same thing with parental roles. This can be seen when looking at the chachater of Mr. Woodhouse as well as Mrs. Bennett.
Source(s): Done extensive research on Jane Austen. I also did a special research tour in college where I researched Austen and basically walked in her footsteps in the UK. - 1 decade ago
no the thing is that vicars where important people back then and all rich families had one living near by. it is only reasonable that she would have vicars in all her novels, almost everyone back then attended church. she mainly writes about rich people that owned land, back then if you had tenants you had to provided them with a vicar that's what most gentlemen where in charge of.
also i think persuasions is the only book that does not have a vicar and northanger abbey too i think.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Probably just because of the time you know? No I hadn't really noticed.