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Evelina: Madame Duval
Throughout the novel Evelina, Fanny Burney pushes our belief of a woman's role in "the novel". By using two depraved characters who, we feel, need to be punished for crimes they commit against our heroine, we are asked to question our moral judgement. Through Sir Clement Willoughby, we discover ....
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.... him and because she wants to be available for our hero, she lies and tells him she is already engaged. This arouses his curiosity and he begs to know with whom she is engaged. Our heroine refuses to tell him and he becomes rather forward in his line of questioning. Evelina tells him that he has "tormented me to death; you have forced me from my friends, and intruded yourself upon me, against my will, for a partner." (44). We become completely annoyed at Sir Clement's behavior toward Evelina. However, he does not stop at insults and insinuations; once he has entirely mo ....
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