Framley Parsonage (Anthony Trollope, 1861)

Anthony Trollope. Framley Parsonage. Pub. 1861. Ed. Katherine Mullin and Francis O'Gorman. Oxford: World Classics, 2014.

General Notes

• 8 significant description of Mark as neither Angel nor devil; "such as his training made him, such as he was"
• 22 deforestation
• 32: As Bowen says in his intro to Barchester Towers, the great theme of desire and shame in AT:

It is no doubt very wrong to long after a naughty thing. Nevertheless we all do long. One may say that hankering after naughty things is the very essence of the evil into which we have been precipitated by Adam's fall. When we confess that we are all sinners, we confess that we all long after naughty things. And ambition is a great vice,--as Mark Antony told us a long time ago,--a great vice, no doubt, if the ambition of the man be with reference to his own advancement, and not the advancement of others. But then, how many of us are there who are not ambitious in this vicious manner? And there is nothing viler than the desire to know great people,--people of great rank, I should say; nothing worse than the hunting of titles and worshipping of wealth. We all know this, and say it every day of our lives. But presuming that a way into the society of Park Lane were open to us, and a way also into that of Bedford Row, how many of us are there who would prefer Bedford Row because it is so vile to worship wealth and title?

Theme tracking

Shakespeare references

• 31 "the labour we delight in physics pain" - Macbeth; bishop proudie about inviting the heiress miss dunstable to stay
• 32 "And ambition is a great vice,--as Mark Antony told us a long time ago,--a great vice, no doubt, if the ambition of the man be with reference to his own advancement, and not the advancement of others." -- Julius Caesar