“The young man was a great favorite with his uncle, and by no means despised by his pretty, gipsy-faced, light-hearted, hoydenish cousin, Miss Alicia Audley. ” (Chapter IV, 5th paragraph)<\/p>\n
In this sentence, I noticed two couples of oppositions: “young man” and “pretty, gipsy-faced, light-hearted, hoydenish cousin” connected to the other couple “favorite”\/”despised”. I might say that this is because the two cousins are not that different after all. And also, that he is better than Miss Audley because he is described by just positive adjectives, in opposition to her that thanks to the chiasmus “pretty, gipsy-faced, light-hearted, hoydenish”, she is at the same time pretty but still boyish and both cunning as a gipsy – I consider it not physically but as a trait of her personality – and light-hearted.<\/p>\n
This simple, descriptive, and superficial\u00a0language might give us the idea that there’s a bond, a connection between the two cousins. Even if he is their uncle’s favorite, she doesn’t hate him at all. The passage might also mean that she is more interested in men company than that of women but not in a sexual way, she simply doesn’t belong or fit with women’s society.<\/p>\n
After all, this short passage may suggest two things: the first is that even if they are blood-related (cousins), there might be a sort of love affair between the two. The second thing it suggests is that\u00a0they’ll become “partners in crime” for a common goal – or maybe for Miss Audley’s: she is the “gipsy-faced” after all.<\/p>\n
To sum up, I believe that what this passage is really about is Lady Audley’s personality that differs from the others’, because even if the language is simple, at the same time it’s effective and mostly focuses on her introduction through her cousin which creates a sort of distorted image of her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“The young man was a great favorite with his uncle, and by no means despised by his pretty, gipsy-faced, light-hearted, hoydenish cousin, Miss Alicia Audley. ” (Chapter IV, 5th paragraph) In this sentence, I noticed two couples of oppositions: “young man” and “pretty, gipsy-faced, light-hearted, hoydenish cousin” connected to the other couple “favorite”\/”despised”. I might … Continue reading Lady Audley’s Persona<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}