Vicar of Wakefield Analysis

This section opens with the Dr. Primrose being led away to the prison by the officers with his family in tow. As they are leaving the village, they encounter a mob of Dr. Primrose’s parishioners who have come with weapons to defend the Vicar. He expertly tells them to dismantle and leave, as they will serve no purpose than to hurt his already dire situation. After arriving at the town and assuring his family is settled in, the police move him to the town prison. Finding himself in his own small cell, he encounters another prisoner who attempts to offer some civility in the form of bedding to sleep on. After the other prisoner begins a educational verse, the Vicar realizes this is the old man who swindled him out of a horse. Dr. Primrose tells this to the man, who’s name is Ephraim Jackson, that because of his civility and generosity he will forgot the man’s con, and also send his son to persuade the neighbor Mr. Flamborough to drop the evidence against him.

Dr. Primrose is woken the next morning by his family, and he readily assigns them tasks to do while he is in prison. Things like getting an apartment, cooking his meals, and making wages to support the family are

Dr. Primrose’s daughter Olivia’s health is in serious decline, and she recommends that her father right Mr. Thornhill a letter allowing him to marry outside of his marriage with Olivia, and that hopefully he will have pity on her father. Dr. Primrose wants nothing of the sort, and will not turn his daughter into a ‘prostitute’ as he calls it. He was later convinced, however, to send the letter and then waited for a reply. At the same time Olivia’s health reached the terminal point, and she passed away while Dr. Primrose was stuck in prison. Mr. Jenkinson gives him the sensible advice to think about the rest of his family, and began planning for ways to get out of jail so he can support them. His letter to Mr. Thornhill was answered negatively, and at the same time he finds out from his wife that his daughter Sophia has been kidnapped. They then receive a letter from their older son George, and it describes the many accomplishments he is achieving in the army. Dr. Primrose and his family are excited, for they have something to be proud of and a child that is not affected by the family’s dire situation. This is in false hopes, however, as a letter from his mother reached George ea

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