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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Sarcasm is employed in the narration of Chapter I with the discussion of the attempted escape from France by the aristocrats. [Examples are italicized.] The author, Baronness Emmuska Orczy, an...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel is the title of a historical novel by the prolific novelist and short story writer Baroness Emma Orczy (see reference link below). It is the first novel in a series of...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
In Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel, the historical backdrop of the French Revolution affects everything about each character's life, especially the lives of the novel's main...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The main character of the swashbuckling adventure novel written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, the Scarlet Pimpernel is a flamboyant heroic character who is sympathetic to the French aristocracy during...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
In chapter 3, first Lord Antony and Jellyband show up. Then a party of four: two ladies and two gentlemen. So, a total of six people arrive at the inn. In chapter 5, the name of the family, I...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The earliest and most prominent example of the differences Baroness Orczy perceives between the British and the French occurs in a discussion between Mr. Jellyband and a patron in Chapter 2. Mr....
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The name of Lord Blakeney's yacht is the Day Dream. The first mention of the yacht is in Chapter Three, when Mr. Jellyband informs Lord Anthony that Lady Blakeney's brother, Armand St. Just, will...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Citizen Chauvelin is the villain of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's play and novel, The Scarlet Pimpernel. He is the enemy of Sir Percy Blakeney and the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel. He is a member of...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
He was a member of the English aristocracy, and after the French Revolution of 1789, which overthrew the French aristocracy, he saw the imprisonment and execution of hundreds of members of the...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Mr. Pitt is only referred to in the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. He is not a character that is physically present in the story. "Mr. Pitt" in the novel is a reference to William Pitt "The Younger,"...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Madame la Guillotine is the name Parisians fondly christen the guillotine, an apparatus used to behead the aristocratic enemies of the French revolution. It is a macabre nickname, but the...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The two most common types of irony are situational irony and dramatic irony. In situational irony, both the character/characters and audience are unaware of the true situation: the outcome of...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
1792 is an appropriate year for the beginning of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel because on September 21, 1792, the Legislative Assembly voted to abolish the monarchy of the Bourbon...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy is a romantic adventure set in the turbulent times of the French Revolution. The main character, an Englishman, Sir Percy Blakeney, is a wealthy and...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Some things that might make you happy: The Scarlet Pimpernell is a clever master of disguise who manages to rescue members of the French aristocracy from the guillotine by smuggling them into...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Sir Percy, also known as 'the Scarlet Pimpernel' to the reader at least, is compared to all of these creatures in different ways as a sign of his bravery, slyness and, in the case of Chauvelin, as...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
This adventure/spy/romance story is set during the French Revolution as a notorious Englishman has taken upon himself the rescue of French aristocrats, whom he smuggles into England. Many of these...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is set during the French Revolution. During this time, of course, the people were bloodthirsty for the heads of aristocrats and were desperate to punish...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Lady Blakeney is so desperate for the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel to become uncovered because her brother's life depends on it. Earlier on in the novel, Chauvelin managed to obtain a letter...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Emmuska Orczy, who was an aspiring artist who tried music and art before finding the medium of letters. After reading novels about the French Revolution, she wondered that she, herself an...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Brogard demonstrates indifference about the aristocrats and feels he should mind his own business. Brogard is the innkepper at Chat Gris inn in Calais. He appears near the end of the book when...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
An example of irony in The Scarlet Pimpernel is that Marguerite confides in her husband that her brother is in trouble for being accused of assisting the mysterious Pimpernel, and he turns out to...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
You are in luck! Enotes has a chapter by chapter summary of The Scarlet Pimpernel. To find the chapter summaries, you go to the page for the book. You can find it by searching in the search bar...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
First introduced in Chapter Three of The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Andrew Ffloulkes is a friend of Sir Anthony, a popular guest at the inn owned by Mr. Jellyband that is the setting of the opening...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The climax occurs when Percy tricks the Chauvelin into taking snuff that is really pepper. From that time he has the upper hand. This occurs in chapter 25. TheChauvelin is the French envoy to...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Man v. man is the primary conflict in Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel. While Percy does struggle with his decision to marry Christine and thinking that she is malevolent enough to send...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The mood--what the author makes you as the reader feel--is primarily one of suspense. Orczy superbly creates an entangled plot which causes her readers to wonder if Marguerite will ever know her...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
As you can seen from my user name, I really like The Scarlet Pimpernel, and I hate that you're not enjoying the book. If you saw the movie first, that does make it a little more difficult to...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
I think that this book is largely an adventure story. But it is meant to have at least some deeper meaning. One of the themes of the book is that of loyalty. It is telling us that loyalty is...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The irony in Bibot expecting to catch the Scarlet Pimpernel is simply that the Scarlet pimpernel then escapes right in front of him! Bibot reflects on the fact that no other guard has been able to...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The category of the conflict would fit best with man vs. man. Although Percy is fighting the revolutionary government of France, he does not intend to change their form of government. He simply...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The National Convention was held in the early part of the French Revolution, in which the king was deposed and the First French Republic was installed to draft a constitution. The slogan was...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The word dessinated comes from the word destinate which means to destine, design or choose". The little red flower on the paper is a design of a scarlet pimpernel, a small red flower that becomes...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
This exciting books is filled with conflicts between characters and caused by tense situations. The most obvious one that I can think of is the conflict that exists between Marguerite and the...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
The main conflict in the book is the struggle, both to keep the young son of Louis XVI alive and smuggle him to England where he will be safe from the French Revolutionaries. Although it involves...