Fanny Price’s Dress
Clothing
The Bertram’s give Fanny a new white dress on the occasion of her cousin Maria’s wedding. She next wears the dress to the Grant’s dinner party, the first dinner party she is invited to attend. The dress symbolizes her new status now that Maria and Julia have left Mansfield Park due to Maria’s marriage. Fanny is now “out,” and she begins to receive her due attention. Her family and acquaintances are surprised by how lovely she looks in the dress because she had faded into the background for so many years while her cousins were at home. Because the dress is a gift from Sir Bertram, it also illustrates her depended on the Bertrams for the means to be in fashionable society.
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Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
Brianna Sumption
Novel
Conquest's White Horse
Conquest's white horse comes smashing into the world and smashes the idea of white being pure. With the presence of Conquest everyone around him is consumed with the lust for power, and thus meaning that Conquest's pal, War, must be close behind. This horse brings back the previous notion that white was a color of mourning, and not of purity, because with Conquest comes Death.
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Revelations - Bible
Paige Lampe
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