Marguerite St. Just

these scenes are: the de Tournay’s meeting Marguerite St. Just (her first appearance in the story),

Pimpernel, is set in 1972 during the beginning stages of the French Revolution. Marguerite St. Just, a young a beautiful French women, is married to Sir. Percy Blakeney. Blakeney is a rich man who appears to be a fool. Before Blakeney and Marguerite’s marriage, Marguerite took revenge on the Marquis de St. Cyr for ending a romantic relationship that her brother had the the marchis’ daughter. Unintentionally, Marquis de St. Cyr was went to the gillentine. When Blakeney found this information out,

don’t expect. Marguerite Blakeney is extremely polite. Even when encountering the Comtesse she is tremendously well mannered. When she walks into the coffee room she looked around and “She nodded pleasantly to Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, whilst extending a hand to Lord Antony,” (Orczy 10) then she continues to greet the Comtesse daughter Suzanne, and “Her whole face lighted up with additional brightness, as she stretched out both arms towards the young girl” (Orczy 10). Marguerite does this with great

into a box. The error in this is that women are just as complicated as any person in real life. In the classic literature the Scarlet Pimpernel, Marguerite Blakeney and Comtesse de Tournay are two of the most intricate female characters in the book that are never put into that box. Marguerite Blakeney shows her individuality through her arrogance. These actions are demonstrated when she addresses those who are just trying to help her. When Marguerite arrives at the inn, Jellyband tried opening the

some men to break, others to break records” (Ward). Throughout the novel “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” by: Maya Angelou, she illustrates Marguerite combating society from a disadvantaged position. Set in the United States during the time of racism and segregation towards the black community, the novel displays the contrast in Maya’s upbringing in Stamps, St. Louis to San Francisco and her constantly changing development and maturity in herself through her effectiveness to conquer difficult situations

Every woman would want to be Lady Marguerite Blakeney, née St Just. Having recently made her debut at the Comedie Francois, Marguerite married Sir Percy Blakeney alias the Scarlet Pimpernel. Charming, clever, beautiful, with childlike eyes and a delicate face, Marguerite captures everyone’s attention. Yet Marguerite is portrayed as a stereotypical woman who is weak, impulsive, and whose identity revolves around her husband. It is quite ridiculous how much Marguerite’s happiness lies in her husband

Pimpernel takes place in France and England in 1792. During this time the French Revolution is taking place. The commoners want revenge on the wrong doings of the French aristocrats. The commoner’s idea of “revenge” is death by guillotine. They aren’t just killing the men that performed these so called acts of treason; they are murdering innocent women and children too. In England the English are outraged, they can’t believe that the people of France are turning their backs on their royalty and brutally

It is 1775, and Mr. Jarvis Lorry is heading to Dover to meet Lucie Manette. He tells her that she isn’t an orphan. She has been told this from a very young age. He says that he will travel with her to Paris to meet her father, who was released from the Bastille. Doctor Manette stays in the Defarge’s wine-shop and has lost his way, but he starts to find it when he meets his daughter and goes back to London. Five years later, Charles Darnay is tried in London on a charge of treason for providing English

disguises to free innocent French aristocrats that had been convicted and were waiting to be put to death under the wrath of Madame Guillotine. Sir Blakeney was married to Marguerite St. Just, known to be the most beautiful and smartest women in Europe, but in France she was considered a traitor for revealing the Marquis de St. Cyr and his whole family to the bloody guillotine to help her brother Armand get revenge for almost being killed for loving the daughter of an aristocrat. This act of hers

Stamps, a lady named Mrs. Flowers takes Marguerite under her wing and starts Marguerite on a journey to find her identity. Angelou says, “When she chose to smile on me, I always wanted to thank her” (93). The respect and affection Marguerite receives from Mrs. Flowers has an important effect on her, a young girl suffering from guilt and self-loathing (Walker, 174). Mrs. Flowers slowly opens Marguerite like a flower back to the world. By bringing Marguerite to reality, Mrs. Flowers has helped her