... his career. His Waverly (1814), a historical novel set during the Scottish Jacobite rebellion of 1745, became a huge success, and Scott began a long career as a historical novelist. Many of his works were about the history of Scotland, but his best and most famous novel, 1819's Ivanhoe, had nothing to do ... with Scotland at all. Set in England in the last years of the twelfth century, Ivanhoe tells the story of a noble knight involved with King Richard I--known to history as ... for what he is, a Saxon knight who is passionately loyal to King Richard, a Norman king. Structurally, Ivan...

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• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

... on a pedestal, but on the contrary, was treated as a criminal when she was kidnapped and taken to Templestone. Rebecca is the heroine of this story whose present seems quite tragic, for her love for Ivanhoe is so deep, yet she is a Jew and he is a Christian ... could represent a curse she put on the villain or it could simple be the author adding a bit of mystery to the novel. Furthermore, Rebecca the Jew was accused of using witchcraft to make a noble, Brian de Bois-Guilbert fall in love with her. This accusation led to her trial ... and ways were vastly different, Scott reveals a way...

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