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    The Scarlet Pimpernel begins during the 1700's, with revolutionary masses at the Barricade waiting for fleeing aristocrats to be captured and sent to die by the guillotine. But the Scarlet Pimpernel comes into disguise with his real name being Percy Blakeney to free nobility from certain death. However, a conflict occurs in which the French send an agent named, Chauvelin, to stop the Pimpernel at all costs. Iron Man, a Billionaire industrialist and owner of Stark Industries, Tony Stark, instead creates

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    explain that most female characters are only subject to be boring caricatures and are not allowed to be their own person. Though these women may be hard to find in classic literature, the novel the Scarlet Pimpernel contains more than enough interesting female characters within its chapters. The Scarlet Pimpernel is one of the pieces of classic literature where the women are written as their own fascinating individuals and not as a character that is forced to, as Rebecca Hall stated, “fit into a box.”

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    In the Scarlet Pimpernel, the author Baroness Orczy put judgement in the book about certain type of people. The aristocrats are featured as feared for their life because they are afraid of getting killed by the peasants, so the author displayed them as innocent people and uses sarcasm as the Community of Public Safety are capturing the aristocrats. The peasants are portrayed as evil people and animals, the author uses these words because she does not like the peasants and despises them. When Sir

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    female lead who is nothing but predictable and stereotypical. The female often gives off essential qualities of a cartoon or princess like damsel in distress. When it comes to classical literature, female characters have predictable nature. In Scarlet Pimpernel, the women carry charismatic personalities and feelings that definitely do not “fit in a box”. Marguerite Blakeney can be quite ruthless at times. When someone is displeasing towards her or something doesn’t go her way she becomes uncivil

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    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 Sir Percy Blakeney alias the Scarlet Pimpernel. One of Marguerite’s major struggles throughout the story is

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    Landree Lamb Ms. Corl Honors English 9 7/19/15 The Scarlet Pimpernel is an adventure novel by Emma Orczy that was going on during the Reign of Terror, following the start of the French Revolution. The title character is Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English aristocrat who transforms into a swordsman and a quick-thinking escape artist. Sir Percy Blakeney has many interesting features, such as his courageousness, his personality, and his style. Blakeney is a very fashionable person

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    The Scarlet Pimpernel

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    The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy is an adventurous novel about Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy Englishman who disguised himself under the false pretence of The Scarlet Pimpernel, a brave and clever man who used preposterous 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

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    Scarlet Pimpernel starts with giving the background of the situation about how famed the scarlet pimpernel is and how badly the French want to kill him, through dialogue in France. The book moves the set to The Fishermen’s Rest and we see some of the aristocrats who have just escaped thanks to Scarlet Pimpernel and his crew. Lots of celebration continues as we get introduced to the main character Marguerite, she says good bye to her brother/Best friend/substitute dad, who is secretly helping scarlet

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    The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Emma Orczy, demonstrates a man versus man conflict, with Percy Blakeney as the protagonist who is fighting to keep his identity secret from Chauvelin. Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel, was a brave individual who determined to save French aristocrats from the guillotine. However, Chauvelin, a French agent, was determined to discover the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Chauvelin desired to find the Scarlet Pimpernel in France, and have him executed by means of the

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    The Scarlet Pimpernell

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    Baroness Orczy’s novel, The Scarlet Pimpernel, took place during the gruesome French Revolution, as French aristocrats were numerously and ceaselessly put to the guillotine, by the lower-class Republicans. During this horrific and alarming time period, a scheming hero by the name of the Scarlet Pimpernel arose and aided the aristocrats in their escape from the city of terror, which held them captive. Unavoidably, the fate of this mysterious stranger became intertwined with a well-regarded, beautiful

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