People are always either judging others or being judged. They act on what they see others do. They see what they dislike and like in others, and decide on whether to follow or judge. Clarence is a parvenu and arrogant man who is always on the lookout for other “snobs”, and tries to avoid them. Maria Edgeworth defines C. Hervey’s character as a cliched young man whose intellect and wealth make rather overbearing. In the selection, C. Hervey’s self-absorbed character is developed through judgemental tone, third person limited point of view, and descriptive language.
The narrator reveals a judgemental tone of Clarence Hervey through descriptions of his character. The tone represents not only the personality of the narrator but also the characters in the selection. An example as in
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In the selection, she portrays a descriptive language when describing C. Hervey’s character. One literary element that she uses is diction. She uses words such as “chameleon” character, “imprudent”, “wild”, and “eccentric”. By using these words, she is showing us a better picture of Hervey’s personality. Chameleon is a very distinctive and highly specialized lizard. Imprudent is saying that he doesnt care about the consequences for his actions, which also goes with the word wild. Eccentric means that on top of everything else, he is also slightly strange. Another literary element that she uses is juxtaposition. Another example in line 53, “Consequently he saw Belinda almost every day, and every day he saw her with increasing admiration of her beauty, and with increasing dread of being taken in to marry a niece of ‘the catch-match-maker’, the name by which Mrs. Stanhope was known amongst the men of his acquaintance.” By saying this, she is showing contrast by saying that she admires her for beauty and attracted to her, but yet he has a fear of marrying her. The narrator’s descriptive language helps define Clarence’s complex
Can you imagine losing your dad, being kidnapped, and having your stepdad go to jail all before you even become an adult? The main character, Stephanie, in the book Taken, by Norah McClintock experienced this. Stephanie was brave enough to escape from her kidnapper, and was daring enough to eat nothing but birch bark and maggots in able to survive for six days. While Stephanie was trying to escape the woods and get home, she always thought about her family, and how important they are to her. The survival skills that her grandpa gave her helped her sustain herself and she constantly thought about how she should treat her mom better.
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Clarence Hervey supposes himself to be a Renaissance man, when in authenticity, he is nothing more than a charlatan. In this passage from her novel Belinda, Maria Edgeworth develops the many characters of Mr. Hervey through generalized language, references to Mr. Hervey’s inconstancy and Mr. Hervey’s ironic and hypocritical fears of Belinda.
With exaggerated diction, Clarence Hervey is described as a bachelor who believes that he is the most eligible in all of the land. Edgeworth describes Clarence as someone who is admired in all companies, and he feels that he is viewed by others as a “genius”. Exaggeration, in this case, is used to intensify the slap of reality when
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Actions and words define an individual. Clarence Harvey is described as a “man of genius” and was “distinguished at Oxford,” but he is also “ignorant” due to his fear of “passing for a pedant,” which comes to show how complicated Hervey actually is. In Maria Edgeworth’s novel, Belinda, the author uses literary techniques, such as point of view and language to portray Clarence Hervey’s character.
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Many people try to prove themselves to other by acting one way in the presence of one group of friends and acting another way in the presence of another group of acquaintances. Such is the case for the “chameleon character” Clarence Hervey in Maria Edgeworth’s 1801 novel Belinda. Through Edgeworth’s use of third person point of view and a negative tone towards the character of Clarence, the reader is better able to get a sense of the arrogance and complexity of this man.
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