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Power of Names

“We will never know how self-conscious Jane Austen was in her choice of names, but there can be little doubt that the vile Norris lodged himself in her mind when she read Clarkson and emerged as the perfect name for the villain of Mansfield Park.”

-Paula Byrne, The Real Jane Austen, pg. 223

As an author and poet myself, I know the power of names for characters or titles for works. It is one of the things I struggle the most with when I am writing a piece because I don’t know how to choose really good names for characters. What really intimidates me when I try to think of names for characters are two types of authors: people like JRR Tolken, who creates breathtakingly exotic names that have a sense of fantasy and mystery about them; and people like Jane Austen, who evokes an entire history and political knowledge with just one name. Giving her character the name of Norris would undoubtedly signal to any of her educated readers the entire history that surrounded Robert Norris and suggest exactly how a reader should feel about the character. With just one name, Austen tells her readers so much about not only how they should feel about this character, but also hints at her own view on this political matter by portraying this Norris in such a villainous light. It’s amazing what Austen did with this name; this is something that I think contemporary readers would miss out on because we are not familiar with this history (at least, not in America). It’s too bad that we might miss out on this nod to Robert Norris and his role in the slave trade, it would enrich our reading and understanding of this novel so much and point out exactly how in tune to her political surroundings Austen was. It is the little things like this that prove Austen was so much more than merely a writer of romance.