Love is a word used all too often and usually in the wrong context.
Pimpernel, the subject of love is ever present in the tough love relationship of.
Marguerite and Percy and the relationship of Marguerite and Armand. Baroness.
Orczy expresses the theme that love struggles, overcomes, and conquers by using.
descriptive language, characterization, and irony. .
First, Orczy uses the writing device of descriptive language quite a bit. .
Love struggles when Marguerite, in her "secret orchard", contemplates her.
husband's love for her. "Then suddenly that love, that devotion, which throughout.
his (Percy's) courtship she had looked upon as the slavish fidelity of a dog, seemed.
to completely vanish" (60). This quote of Percy's loving actions also exemplifies.
descriptive language.
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He was but a man madly, blindly, passionately in love, and as soon.
as her light footsteps had died away within the house, he knelt down upon.
the terrace steps, and in the very madness of his love he kissed one by one.
the places where her small foot had trodden, and the stone balustrade there,.
where her tiny hand had rested last (139).
In the end, Percy's love for Marguerite conquers his pride. After Marguerite's.
painstaking attempt to save her husband, she is wearied and distressed. To show.
affection, Percy kisses her feet because they "bore pathetic witness to her.
endurance and devotion" for him (259). .
Another device Ms. Orczy uses is characterization. The sisterly/brotherly.
love shared between Marguerite and Armand is demonstrated in a number of ways. .
"Armand! said Marguerite Blakeney, as soon as she saw him approaching . a.
happy smile shone on her face, even through the tears." (53). After Armand's.
departure, Marguerite is faced with an "either---or" situation. Either she helps.
identify the Scarlet Pimpernel and her brother is safe or she denies the help and.
basically signs Armand's death wish.
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[S]he must make up her mind whether she will keep the knowledge.
