Mansfield Park Lesson Plan

While discussing the relative virtue of clergyman, Fanny remarks of Dr. Grant that he "cannot be in the habit of teaching others their duty every week, cannot go to church twice every Sunday and preach such very good sermons in so good manner as he does, without being the better for it himself" (80). What does this say about Fanny's understanding of vocation?

For Fanny, there are rarely instances in which a powerful cultural/political institution is not, by virtue of its existence, necessarily populated by those who deserve to run said institution. The vocation itself does not simply require virtue but will eventually produce it by the very nature of the task related...