Coquette Essay

time, found marriage to be a way of securing a socially and financially affluent future; her description of Mr. Boyer, whose “taste,” “manners” and “morals,” are highly regarded, supports the materialism of the time period. Baker finds that “The Coquette is considered a tragic novel in that it depicts the seduction and fall of a young woman, and the reader can track the tragic disintegration of Eliza Wharton against her flagging commitment to precision and clarity in her language, her mode of self-expression;”

In Hannah W. Foster’s, The Coquette, Eliza Wharton is portrayed as a woman of status, above average intelligence and education, with a flirtatious nature. Though the author does not cast her in an antagonistic light, her manner is painted as foolish, flippant to 18th century social conventions, and lacking in forethought. As such, The Coquette should be viewed as a literary warning for young women of the day, especially those who may have shared undesirable attributes with Eliza. It is the novel’s

Violations of the True Woman in The Coquette             In her article, "The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860," Barbara Welter discusses the nineteenth-century ideal of the perfect woman. She asserts that "the attributes of True Womanhood . . . could be divided into four cardinal virtues-piety, purity, submissiveness and domesticity." Furthermore, she adds that "if anyone, male or female, dared to tamper with the complex virtues which made up True Womanhood, he was damned immediately as

Expected Behavior in The Coquette and The Female Marine   In society, constructs of correctness have been formed on the basis of expected, gendered behavior. Individuals have traditional roles that they play which are based on the historical performance of their gender. Although very rigid, these traditional roles are frequently transferred, resulting in an altered and undefinable identity that exists beyond the boundaries of gender. These transgressions into the neuter role are characterized

Hannah W. Foster’s The Coquette is a young woman’s path navigating the expectations of society while not surrendering her own wants and needs. Marriages, in the eighteenth century, are based on financial security and social rank, not love. Women, especially those who did not have a dowry, married a man of wealth and connections. The sad, tragic tale of Eliza Wharton validates the fact that defying expectations in the eighteenth century caused women to fall from grace. Foster’s tale begins with

Olivia Moore Dr. Loucks ENG.031 The Coquette In the works of Hannah Webster Foster’s “The Coquette”, there are characters who present themselves as morally ambiguous. During the time of the late eighteenth century, Feministic actions and attitude were not the social norm, and was almost looked down upon. Most men were still seen as superior to women, just because of their sex. Although now that is known to be false, Women were deemed to be subservient to the man. The role women were supposed to

“The Scarlet Letter” by Nathanial Hawthorne and “The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton” by Hannah Webster Foster at first glance may seem to be entirely unrelated tales. “The Scarlet Letter” is the story of Hester Prynne, an adulteress who is forced to raise her daughter on her own and to wear a scarlet A to mark her indignity. “The Coquette” is a fictionalized account of a socially elite woman, Eliza Wharton, who dies after giving birth to a stillborn, illegitimate child. Although the fate

The idea of marriage is praised in all the in last few stories we have read. Marriage or domesticated relationships are held to a very high status back then in Victorian times and even now with some people today. In The Coquette written by Hannah W. Foster, marriage played a huge part of the power and dominance in the text. The men’s sexual control from the text used sex and marriage for their own personal desires showed power. She was abused and if she would have lived, she would have been chastised

Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette (1797) and William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy (1789) are epistolary novels that outline the inevitable perils and consequences (for women) of carelessly becoming a victim of male seduction. These provocative novels allow readers to enter a sexual private sphere of society, one that may have been deemed taboo, through letters depicting the art of seduction. Women were expected to subscribe to the societal expectations of appropriate female behavior. In

love forever. They were lovers once and then when Antoine denied valors marriage proposal to Coquette. This made valor very upset so he let and nobody knew where he went and the they figured it out when antoine stole one of his roses. Valor had became the dark lord of Roanan. When he was the dark lord and still mourning over not being able to have Coquette. He did a lot of bad and cruel things but when Coquette