【正文】 perspective on women.Female consciousness must be reflected by various female characters. Austen was good at portraying characters. In Mansfield Park, she created a series of female images to serve for expressing her female consciousness. Chapter I. The Image of the Old Orthodox Comic FemaleAt the beginning of Mansfield Park, it recalled that three Miss Ward had grown to marry. For her good looks and seven thousand pounds, Miss Maria Ward married Sir Thomas Bertram and became a baronet’s lady。 Miss Frances got attached to a Lieutenant of Marines, who was no education, no fortune, and no connections.Now different marriages have caused different situations.A. Lady in different life circumstances Different life conditions made them play different roles in life. Superior living women seldom cared about the world and became hedonists。 because he was well aware of that she could not even handle her own things. When her husband returned from overseas, she was very happy, only at this time did she realize that “how dreadfully she must have missed him and how impossible it would have been for her to bear a lengthened absence”.4As Fanny’s aunt, she did not hesitate to adopt her nine years ago. It definitely had a great relationship with her superior life. Fanny was very grateful to her. She always required Fanny to be with her and was indeed dependent on Fanny. When the young went to visit the Sotherton or gone to the parties and balls, she did not want to move her foot, then asked Fanny to stay with her. It reflected her lazy, as well as her selfish. During the time when Fanny was at Portsmouth, she wrote many letters to show her wish that Fanny could e back to Mansfield Park earlier. However, without her husband’s permission, she did not dare to suggest such thing. When Fanny was going to leave Mansfield Park after she married Edmund, considering her own interests, lady Bertram even hope Fanny do not marry. Fortunately, there is Susan who took her sister’s place to take care of lady Bertram.In Mrs. Bertram’s world, she only cared about herself, other people and things could not have substantial influence on her. She was the perfect example as laziness and selfishness. Living by the cord ladies did not think about anything in upperclass, which reflected that on one hand, male played the lead role in the patriarchal society。 in return she got a parcel of good cheese and four beautiful wild eggs without any effort. When Fanny’s little grey pony died, she did not intend to spend money to buy a new horse for Fanny, but suggested Fanny to go riding in the interval of her cousin’s spare riding time. She always taught Fanny to be grateful and remember that she was inferior to the others. On the road from Northamton to Mansfield Park, Mrs. Norris had been enlightening Fanny to be grateful to the Bertram family and product good performance. When Fanny insisted on her moral principles and did not play the drama, Mrs. Norris called her “a very obstinate, ungrateful girl”6. When Fanny refused Henry Crawford’s proposal of marriage, Mrs. Norris blamed Fanny to be a person who did not know how to repense gratitude. She was never nice to Fanny and always ordered Fanny to do housework. In her eyes, Fanny was just another servant. Whereas she loved Maria and Julia too much and spoiled them, which finally made the two Miss Bertram chose a wrong path. In the case of the marriage of Maria and Mr. Rushworth, she “was zealous in promoting the match, by every suggestion and contrivance, likely to enhance its desirableness to either party”7. She really did not know her niece’s true idea, but took it for grant to find a rich man for her niece. At the end of the novel, both of her two nieces eloped, which definitely should blame Mrs. Norris’s vanity education.Mrs. Norris was a very typical of vanity and too stingy to pull out a hair. In an economic society, she was also a good housekeeper and could be pared with a man. In the works of Jane Austen, Mrs. Norris set the first example for women to help men. But her work did not satisfy in every way. It reflected that Jane Austen was at the period of ideological contradiction. In the exercise of their rights, women must obtain the authorization of men at first.Poor helpless wife Mrs. Price, Mrs. Bertram’s sister, cut off all her relationship with her family for love. After ten years later, she had a huge family to bring up, her husband became disabled, so she had to regardless of her selfesteem, put down the old grudges, reconnect with her two sisters to get help. The entire struggle she did was to maintain the basic living security. When the daughter, who had been sent away from home ten years ago, returned home, she greeted her with a sincere love, but she cared nothing for this daughter’s life. Mrs. Price put all her energies on weling her son William Price, ignored Fanny’s feelings. Not until William reminded her, did she realize that she should give more care to Fanny. But the true feelings of the heart was unable to hide, she soon transferred the subject from Fanny to other things, totally neglected the longabsence girl’s extreme thirst of motherly love. Her heart and all her time was filled with trifle. She had no energy and no feelings for Fanny. The long separation had made this mother almost forgotten the daughter who had been sent away.Because she was married to the poor Mr. Price, Mrs. Price worried about livelihood every day. She had no idea of how superior her two sisters’ lives were. Complain had bee her whole life. Lacking of money, she was unable to buy more supplies and toys for her children. So she could not escape the troubles which the children fought for it。 she ought to share the housework with the servant and even if the servant was not satisfying, she had no money to replace the servant. Her days were spent in a kind of slow bustle。 wishing to be an economist, without contrivance or regular