Why is Marian so mesmerized by Fosco, who she says "has interested me, has attracted me, has forced me to like him"? Why is Fosco able to see Marian, despite her physical unattractiveness, as a "magnificent creature"?Ĥ. In the novel, how is pedigree intertwined with deception and immorality? Where do the lines blur between servants and the served? How are the underprivileged used as a screen for viewing the upper-crust characters?ģ. But Collins lived a life on the periphery of respectable English society that his father would not have condoned. "You will make aristocratic connections that will be of the greatest use to you in life," Collins's father told him when he started school. How does her double, Anne Catherick, illuminate the dark side of that ideal?Ģ.
Laura is presented as an ideal of Victorian womanhood, obedient, respectful of social conventions, and willing to sacrifice her own wishes for others. ( Below you'll find two sets of questions: one from Penguin and the other from Random House.)ġ.
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