Mansfield Park has been considered controversial largely because its heroine, Fanny Price, is viewed by many readers as uninteresting and excessively proper and principled. The novel also weaves in sensitive subjects such as colonialism and the slave trade in a restrained but unmistakable way. Its moral stance and overall message have been read in different lights. Some interpret it as a defense of conservative values, whereas others see it as a complex work that defies a straightforward categorization.
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