Charlotte Temple Essay

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soldier: an honorable man that would not do this kind of thing! But he would continue to see her. He even paid her guardian so she would keep bringing her to see him.

“ He soon pund means to ingratiate himself with her companion, who was a French teacher at the school, and, at parting, slipped a letter he had written into Charlotte’s hand, and five guineas into that of Mademoiselle, who promised she would endeavor to bring her young charge into the field again the next evening” (Rowson 11).

Montraville was influenced himself by Belcore who was evil. When Montraville and Charlotte would meet, he would bring Belcore along to entertain Charlotte’s guardian, La Rue.

“...he had wisely brought Belcore with him to entertain Mademoiselle while he could have an uninterrupted conversation with Charlotte. ... Belcore... possessed a genteel fortune and had a liberal education; Dissipated, thoughtless, and capricious, he paid little ...

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to talk to this man in the first place. Therefore they would have never had a relationship. La Rue had beauty, but no goodness in her heart .

“The lovely maid whose form and face Nature has deck’d with ev’ry grace,
But in whose breast no virtues glow,
Whose hand ne’er felt another’s woe,
Whose hand ne’er smooth’d the bed of pain,
Or eas’d the captive’s galling chain;
But like the tulip caught the eye,
born just to be admir’d and die;
When gone, no one regrets its loss,
or scarce remembers that it was”(Rowson 23).

There were continued instances of behavior that were unacceptable ...

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