Servants in Early British Novels: The Female Quixote and Evelina
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Focusing on servants in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote and Frances Burney’s Evelina, this paper explores what roles servant characters play and what significance they have for entangling or untangling the conflicts in each novel. The Female Quixote well portrays the collision between fidelity and material interests in the master-servant relationship. The fidelity of Lucy as a supposed lady’s attendant appears indispensable for Arabella to pursue her quixotic adventures. But the real Lucy is merely a low-born servant and sometimes gives in to bribes so insignificant as to ridicule Arabella’s quixotism. Likewise, Edward’s attempt to steal fish puts into question Arabella’s quixotism, and Deborah’s opportunistic behaviors show that fidelity loses its importance when an opportunity to gain material benefit appears. In Evelina, servants’ value derives from their instrumental role for the master. Utilizing this instrumentality of servants, Captain Mirvan and Sir Clement commit brutal acts to satisfy their reprehensible desires. The flip side of this instrumentality is that servants can be threatening when they exploit what they know about the master’s family to pursue their own self-interest. It is well illustrated in the case of Dame Green. Both in The Female Quixote and in Evelina, these issues between masters and servants have been raised and then dismissed as insignificant.
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Focusing on servants in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote and Frances Burney’s Evelina, this paper explores what roles servant characters play and what significance they have for entangling or untangling the conflicts in each novel. The Female Quixote well portrays the collision between fidelity and material interests in the master-servant relationship. The fidelity of Lucy as a supposed lady’s attendant appears indispensable for Arabella to pursue her quixotic adventures. But the real Lucy is merely a low-born servant and sometimes gives in to bribes so insignificant as to ridicule Arabella’s quixotism. Likewise, Edward’s attempt to steal fish puts into question Arabella’s quixotism, and Deborah’s opportunistic behaviors show that fidelity loses its importance when an opportunity to gain material benefit appears. In Evelina, servants’ value derives from their instrumental role for the master. Utilizing this instrumentality of servants, Captain Mirvan and Sir Clement commit brutal acts to satisfy their reprehensible desires. The flip side of this instrumentality is that servants can be threatening when they exploit what they know about the master’s family to pursue their own self-interest. It is well illustrated in the case of Dame Green. Both in The Female Quixote and in Evelina, these issues between masters and servants have been raised and then dismissed as insignificant.
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