Fanny and the play

Well, I wrote a nice long post that ended up losing when my computer shut down of its own accord. I won't rewrite that.

So briefly then, has any one else noticed just how much Fanny becomes involved in the production of the play in MP? Although she refuses to act, she sews costumes, she reads lines with Rushworth, she acts as prompter and audience to Crawford and Maria (and is described as very useful) as well as Edmund and Mary, she spends a lot of time watching practices, and finally at the end she lets herself get talked into agreeing to read the part of cottager's wife, the same one she refused so vehemently to act a few weeks before.

What do you make of this? It seems to be a comment on the creeping and seductive nature of moral corruption, that it spreads and affects even people who don't want to be affected by it, but it could also been seen as proof that Fanny is not so virtuous as she comes off--that she refuses to do something that terrifies her anyway, but agrees to everything else, as long as it's not hard or uncomfortable for her. It could also simply be proof that Fanny is as human as anyone else in the story, and although trying to do right, just as subject to forces such as peer pressure and pleasure.

What are your thoughts?