Scarlet Pimpernell Character Analysis

When she talks to her husband, she is obviously rude and ruthless. When the son of the Comtesse de Tournay de Basserive was trying to apologize for his mother’s actions, yet Marguerite replied with “one of her merry infectious laughs” “ look on that pretty picture—the English turkey and the French bantam” (Orczy 14). She is comparing her husband to a turkey, a dumb flightless bird that can’t do anything and the child to a bantam, a small chicken. The amount of distinct ruthlessness is inevitable to deny; therefore, this makes her sound like a politician today. Politicians always try to tease each other without the other person knowing it like Marguerite.

Back at their mansion, Marguerite, still in major agony over her decision to save her brother Armand by allowing Chauvelin to know of the Scarlet Pimpernel’s meeting with Ffoulkes, and wanting the romance that she and Sir Percy once shared, confronts him on the house’s front steps about his coldness toward her. It is obvious that he is getting ready to leave the house. He explains that she damaged his reputation to the point of no return, and his personal pride by not telling him, however unwittingly, for the arrest and murder of the Marquis de Cyr. Marguerite protests her innocence with the fact that she was used by de Cyr’s enemies. Sir Percy seems unaffected at first, but enough of his old affection

She is morally corrupt. Antoine witnesses his mother committing adultery by kissing another man. She pretends not to have seen him watching her. She doesn't have any regard for her family nor marriage. She doesn't show concern in handling Antoine's behavior.

Celie, the narrator of The Color Purple, is an uneducated, submissive, 14-year old black girl who lives in Georgia. Celie is constantly being abused and raped by her father, Alphonso. He has already impregnated Celie twice. The first one was a girl while the second one was a boy. All her children were taken away by her father after they were born. Her father told her that she better not tell anybody about their relationship but God, which explains why every letter she write begins with “Dear God”. Celie’s mother is happy because Alphonso doesn’t bother her anymore, but the truth is that Alphonso has been raping Celie as a substitute for her mother to gratify his sexual needs. Celie’s mother becomes seriously sick and eventually dies. Alphonso brings home another woman but continues to sexually

Rebecca Hall once highlighted how “It’s not often you get female characters who don’t fit in a box.” In the Scarlet Pimpernel, this is not the case. The female characters created by Baroness Orczy show an immaculate range of emotions who are not made to fit in a box. Lady Blakeney and The Comtesse de Tournay are real and relatable female characters who not only have many emotions and characteristics, but they have been through a lot.

Marguerite needed to develop as a person to become the next Countess of Flanders, by doing this, she needed to undermine the social norms for women at that time. Marguerite was extremely opinionated, she enjoyed doing activities classified as 'just boys things' and she constantly disregarded her father's opinions and decisions for her. It quickly became evident that Marguerite was not an ordinary girl in this era.

People may think that she is doing this because she really is right, but sometimes her judgment might be clouded. For instance, when she doesn’t let her daughter see Marguerite (Orczy 11). In conclusion, Comtesse de Tournay has a sharp personality though others may say otherwise. Although the Comtesse’ personality has some flare, Marguerite Blakeney provides a personality that is completely

She is hailed as “the cleverest woman in Europe” at parlors and banquets. Yet she was rash enough to speak out against the St. Cyr family and was naïve enough to ignore the Parisian’s thirst for blood. This does not fit in with the given information that Marguerite is clever and wise. This shows that Marguerite, though intelligent and sharp, will still be ruled by her impulsive emotions, not thinking of the consequences of her actions.

In the book Switched at Birthday, the two main characters, Lavender and Scarlet, both have somewhat uncommon names. Usually, names of a character don’t really have any significant meaning, but in this case, the author, Natalie Standiford, might have named Lavender and Scarlet based on their personalities.

Hall once complained that “It’s not often you get female characters who don’t fit into a box.” What Hall means is that there is so many books that have a stereotypical woman who fit into a stereotype of what a woman “should” be. Being a stereotypical woman character, would require them to not have problems and to not at any moment have unhappy emotions. They would have to be able to fit into the perfect image of a woman box, to be under this stereotype. The woman in The Scarlet Pimpernel aren’t stereotypical woman who “fit into a box,” they have actual emotions, real life problems and they make their own decisions even if that’s what people don’t expect.

How women are presented in “Of Mice and Men”, “The Farmer Bride” and, “Coy mistress”.

Throughout the entire book, Marguerite and two friends, (Paul and Theo), travel through different dimensions inhabiting the bodies of themselves from different dimensions. She travels to avenge her father’s death, who she was told by Theo,was murdered by Paul. On pages 329-330, it becomes clear to Marguerite why Theo was so set on convincing her that Paul killed her father. “‘Triad has developed a way for its spies to remain in control throughout their trips...They call it

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”

The book was written by Hungarian Aristocrat Baroness Emmuska Orczy, and the book takes on the viewpoint of one who sympathizes with the French aristocrats during the Reign of Terror. For being a book on historical fiction, it was a fairly easy read. The purpose of the book is to entertain the readers. Orczy accomplished that and then some with this book. Following Marguerite Blakeney, formerly Marguerite St. Just, on a wild adventure filled with suspense and danger, The Scarlet Pimpernel is a fast pace book that captures and holds the interest of readers.

Pauline Dubourg, laundress, stated that “Madame L’Espanaye never met any person in her house” so they considered this testimony against Madame L’Espanaye claiming that she has plenty to hide, therefore her act was such a strange and mysterious to the people. Moreover, Jules Mignaud, banker, said “the third day before her death, she took out in person the sum of 4000 francs. This sum was paid in gold, and a clerk went home with the money” so everyone was confused about Madame L’Espanaye movements, why did she took all this amount of money out of the bank? For whom it was paid? Why it was paid by gold? So all these questions situated her in a mysterious position. These scenes expressed the idea that women are mysterious, cagey,