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* AdultFear: Your teenage daughter disappears with her French teacher, running off to another continent. You spend months trying to find her, only to encounter her dying and with a baby girl. Just as you're burying her, the man who impregnated her and abandoned her comes to the funeral and begs you to kill him. Lampshaded by Mademoiselle de la Rue when she comes begging to their doorstep, destitute and dying.
* AnAesop: Stated quite explicitly at the end.
* BabiesEverAfter: not used very happily.
* DeathByChildbirth
* DeathBySex / TheScourgeOfGod: [[spoiler:Charlotte dies after giving birth.]]
* FemmeFatale: Mademoiselle de la Rue
* AnAesop: Stated quite explicitly at the end.
* BabiesEverAfter: not used very happily.
* DeathByChildbirth
* DeathBySex / TheScourgeOfGod: [[spoiler:Charlotte dies after giving birth.]]
* FemmeFatale: Mademoiselle de la Rue
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* FrenchJerk:
** Mlle de la Rue.
** Averted with Charlotte's French headmistress. Charlotte's father apologizes to her after referring to de la Rue as "that Frenchwoman".
* GoldDigger: La Rue, and Montraville as well.
* TheIngenue: Charlotte
** Mlle de la Rue.
** Averted with Charlotte's French headmistress. Charlotte's father apologizes to her after referring to de la Rue as "that Frenchwoman".
* GoldDigger: La Rue, and Montraville as well.
* TheIngenue: Charlotte
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* LemonyNarrator: who isn't even ironic about it.
* MeaningfulName: "La Rue" is French for "The Street." Let's look again at Mlle "de la Rue"...
* NaiveEverygirl: Charlotte
* MeaningfulName: "La Rue" is French for "The Street." Let's look again at Mlle "de la Rue"...
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* ReplacementGoldfish: Lucy, Charlotte's daughter, for her parents.
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* SexIsEvil
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Mademoiselle de la Rue
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* DeathBySex/TheScourgeOfGod: [[spoiler:Charlotte dies after giving birth.]]
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* DeathBySex/TheScourgeOfGod: DeathBySex / TheScourgeOfGod: [[spoiler:Charlotte dies after giving birth.]]
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Charlotte is a sweet, innocent English girl who knows little of the world. On the advice of her poisonous new "friend," Mlle de la Rue, Charlotte decides to run away with John Montraville, a dashing and handsome soldier whom she loves. They elope... to America. Their honeymoon doesn't last, though, and it's not long before Charlotte is abandoned and on the streets... and did we mention pregnant?
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Charlotte is a sweet, innocent English girl who knows little of the world. On the advice of her poisonous new "friend," Mlle de la Rue, Charlotte decides to run away with John Montraville, a dashing and handsome soldier whom she loves. They elope... to America. America.
Their honeymoon doesn't last, though, and it's not long before Charlotte is abandoned and on the streets... and did we mentionpregnant?pregnant?
Their honeymoon doesn't last, though, and it's not long before Charlotte is abandoned and on the streets... and did we mention
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* BabiesEverAfter - not used very happily.
* DearNegativeReader: Not only set up defensively in the foreword, but a climactic chapter is actually titled "Which Those Devoid of Feeling Need Not Read," i.e. "Which Those Who Would Criticize It For the Sentimental and Predictable Melodrama That It Is, Need Not Read."
* DearNegativeReader: Not only set up defensively in the foreword, but a climactic chapter is actually titled "Which Those Devoid of Feeling Need Not Read," i.e. "Which Those Who Would Criticize It For the Sentimental and Predictable Melodrama That It Is, Need Not Read."
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* BabiesEverAfter - BabiesEverAfter: not used very happily.
* DearNegativeReader: Not only set up defensively in the foreword, but a climactic chapter is actually titled "Which Those Devoid of Feeling Need Not Read," i.e. "Which Those Who Would Criticize It For the Sentimental and Predictable Melodrama That It Is, Need Not Read."happily.
* DearNegativeReader: Not only set up defensively in the foreword, but a climactic chapter is actually titled "Which Those Devoid of Feeling Need Not Read," i.e. "Which Those Who Would Criticize It For the Sentimental and Predictable Melodrama That It Is, Need Not Read."
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* {{Death by Sex}}/{{The Scourge of God}}: [[spoiler:Charlotte dies after giving birth.]]
* {{Femme Fatale}}- Mademoiselle de la Rue
* {{Femme Fatale}}- Mademoiselle de la Rue
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* {{Death by Sex}}/{{The Scourge of God}}: DeathBySex/TheScourgeOfGod: [[spoiler:Charlotte dies after giving birth.]]
*{{Femme Fatale}}- FemmeFatale: Mademoiselle de la Rue
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* FrenchJerk - FrenchJerk:
** Mlle de la Rue.
** Mlle de la Rue.
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* {{The Ingenue}}- Charlotte
* KarmicDeath: After turning Charlotte away as a rich wife, la Rue in turn is abandoned by her husband because the servants see her for a BitchInSheepsClothing, and she spends several years destitute. Eventually she ends up ironically on the Temples' doorstep begging... and they [[{{Forgiveness}} pay for her debts and medical expenses, so she can die in peace.]]
* LemonyNarrator - who isn't even ironic about it.
* MeaningfulName - "La Rue" is French for "The Street." Let's look again at Mlle "de la Rue"...
* NaiveEverygirl - Charlotte
* ThePunishmentIstheCrime: Montraville realizes too late that he abandoned Charlotte while pregnant and she died while he was off marrying another woman. He sees the house where she stayed is empty and hears from the townspeople that she was wandering the streets mad. Montraville arrives just in time to see her funeral and begs Mr. Temple to kill him. Mr. Temple refuses to give him that satisfaction, so instead Montraville murders the friend that lied about Charlotte being wicked, and spends the rest of his life in sorrow. While his wife tends on him.
* KarmicDeath: After turning Charlotte away as a rich wife, la Rue in turn is abandoned by her husband because the servants see her for a BitchInSheepsClothing, and she spends several years destitute. Eventually she ends up ironically on the Temples' doorstep begging... and they [[{{Forgiveness}} pay for her debts and medical expenses, so she can die in peace.]]
* LemonyNarrator - who isn't even ironic about it.
* MeaningfulName - "La Rue" is French for "The Street." Let's look again at Mlle "de la Rue"...
* NaiveEverygirl - Charlotte
* ThePunishmentIstheCrime: Montraville realizes too late that he abandoned Charlotte while pregnant and she died while he was off marrying another woman. He sees the house where she stayed is empty and hears from the townspeople that she was wandering the streets mad. Montraville arrives just in time to see her funeral and begs Mr. Temple to kill him. Mr. Temple refuses to give him that satisfaction, so instead Montraville murders the friend that lied about Charlotte being wicked, and spends the rest of his life in sorrow. While his wife tends on him.
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* {{The Ingenue}}- TheIngenue: Charlotte
* KarmicDeath: After turning Charlotte away as a rich wife, la Rue in turn is abandoned by her husband because the servants see her for a BitchInSheepsClothing, and she spends several years destitute. Eventually she ends up ironically on the Temples' doorstep begging... and they[[{{Forgiveness}} pay for her debts and medical expenses, so she can die in peace.]]
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*MeaningfulName - MeaningfulName: "La Rue" is French for "The Street." Let's look again at Mlle "de la Rue"...
*NaiveEverygirl - NaiveEverygirl: Charlotte
*ThePunishmentIstheCrime: ThePunishmentIsTheCrime: Montraville realizes too late that he abandoned Charlotte while pregnant and she died while he was off marrying another woman. He sees the house where she stayed is empty and hears from the townspeople that she was wandering the streets mad. Montraville arrives just in time to see her funeral and begs Mr. Temple to kill him. Mr. Temple refuses to give him that satisfaction, so instead Montraville murders the friend that lied about Charlotte being wicked, and spends the rest of his life in sorrow. While his wife tends on him.
* KarmicDeath: After turning Charlotte away as a rich wife, la Rue in turn is abandoned by her husband because the servants see her for a BitchInSheepsClothing, and she spends several years destitute. Eventually she ends up ironically on the Temples' doorstep begging... and they
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* ScareEmStraight - If you run away with a man who looks good in a uniform - or even listen to women who are - ''gasp''! - at all sexual, you'll be abandoned and left to starve on the streets while pregnant, and if you're ''really'' lucky, you'll get to die in your father's arms.
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* ToxicFriendInfluence - Mademoiselle de la Rue
* {{Sex Is Evil}}
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** Averted with Charlotte's French headmistress. Charlotte's father apologises to her after referring to de la Rue as "that Frenchwoman".
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* ThePunishmentIstheCrime: Montraville realizes too late that he abandoned Charlotte while pregnant and she died while he was off marrying another woman. He sees the house where she stayed is empty and hears from the townspeople that she was wandering the streets mad. Montraville arrives just in time to see her funeral and begs Mr. Temple to kill him. Mr. Temple refuses to give him that satisfaction, so instead Montraville murders the friend that lied about Charlotte being wicked, and spends the rest of his life in sorrow. While his wife tends on him.
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* KarmicDeath: After turning Charlotte away as a rich wife, la Rue in turn is abandoned by her husband because the servants see her for a BitchInSheepsClothing, and she spends several years destitute. Eventually she ends up ironically on the Temples' doorstep begging . . . and they [[ {{Forgiveness}} pay for her debts and medical expenses, so she can die in peace.]]
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* KarmicDeath: After turning Charlotte away as a rich wife, la Rue in turn is abandoned by her husband because the servants see her for a BitchInSheepsClothing, and she spends several years destitute. Eventually she ends up ironically on the Temples' doorstep begging . . . begging... and they [[ {{Forgiveness}} [[{{Forgiveness}} pay for her debts and medical expenses, so she can die in peace.]]
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* AdultFear: Your teenage daughter disappears with her French teacher, running off to another continent. You spend months trying to find her, only to encounter her dying and with a baby girl. Just as you're burying her, the man who impregnated her and abandoned her comes to the funeral and begs you to kill him. Lampshaded by Mademoiselle de la Rue when she comes begging to their doorstep, destitute and dying.
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* {{Forgiveness}}: Charlotte's father forgives la Rue for what she did to Charlotte, even knowing that she made him and his wife suffer through a parent's worst nightmare.
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* GoldDigger: La Rue, and Montraville as well.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: Lucy, Charlotte's daughter, for her parents.
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* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys - Mlle de la Rue is ''French,'' as if to top her already incredible iniquity.
** Averted with Charlotte's French headmistress. Charlotte's father apologises to her after referring to de la Rue as "that Frenchwoman".
** Averted with Charlotte's French headmistress. Charlotte's father apologises to her after referring to de la Rue as "that Frenchwoman".
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* FrenchJerk - Mlle de la Rue.
** Averted with Charlotte's French headmistress. Charlotte's father apologises to her after referring to de la Rue as "that Frenchwoman".
** Averted with Charlotte's French headmistress. Charlotte's father apologises to her after referring to de la Rue as "that Frenchwoman".
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The bestselling book of early 19th-century America, written by Susanna Rowson and published in 1791.
Charlotte is a sweet, innocent English girl who knows little of the world. On the advice of her poisonous new "friend," Mlle de la Rue, Charlotte decides to run away with John Montraville, a dashing and handsome soldier whom she loves. They elope... to America. Their honeymoon doesn't last, though, and it's not long before Charlotte is abandoned and on the streets... and did we mention pregnant?
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!! ''Charlotte Temple'' contains examples of :
* AnAesop: Stated quite explicitly at the end.
* BabiesEverAfter - not used very happily.
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys - Mlle de la Rue is ''French,'' as if to top her already incredible iniquity.
** Averted with Charlotte's French headmistress. Charlotte's father apologises to her after referring to de la Rue as "that Frenchwoman".
* DearNegativeReader: Not only set up defensively in the foreword, but a climactic chapter is actually titled "Which Those Devoid of Feeling Need Not Read," i.e. "Which Those Who Would Criticize It For the Sentimental and Predictable Melodrama That It Is, Need Not Read."
* DeathByChildbirth
* {{Death by Sex}}/{{The Scourge of God}}: [[spoiler:Charlotte dies after giving birth.]]
* {{Femme Fatale}}- Mademoiselle de la Rue
* {{The Ingenue}}- Charlotte
* LemonyNarrator - who isn't even ironic about it.
* MeaningfulName - "La Rue" is French for "The Street." Let's look again at Mlle "de la Rue"...
* NaiveEverygirl - Charlotte
* ScareEmStraight - If you run away with a man who looks good in a uniform - or even listen to women who are - ''gasp''! - at all sexual, you'll be abandoned and left to starve on the streets while pregnant, and if you're ''really'' lucky, you'll get to die in your father's arms.
* {{Sex Is Evil}}
* ToxicFriendInfluence - Mademoiselle de la Rue
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Charlotte is a sweet, innocent English girl who knows little of the world. On the advice of her poisonous new "friend," Mlle de la Rue, Charlotte decides to run away with John Montraville, a dashing and handsome soldier whom she loves. They elope... to America. Their honeymoon doesn't last, though, and it's not long before Charlotte is abandoned and on the streets... and did we mention pregnant?
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!! ''Charlotte Temple'' contains examples of :
* AnAesop: Stated quite explicitly at the end.
* BabiesEverAfter - not used very happily.
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys - Mlle de la Rue is ''French,'' as if to top her already incredible iniquity.
** Averted with Charlotte's French headmistress. Charlotte's father apologises to her after referring to de la Rue as "that Frenchwoman".
* DearNegativeReader: Not only set up defensively in the foreword, but a climactic chapter is actually titled "Which Those Devoid of Feeling Need Not Read," i.e. "Which Those Who Would Criticize It For the Sentimental and Predictable Melodrama That It Is, Need Not Read."
* DeathByChildbirth
* {{Death by Sex}}/{{The Scourge of God}}: [[spoiler:Charlotte dies after giving birth.]]
* {{Femme Fatale}}- Mademoiselle de la Rue
* {{The Ingenue}}- Charlotte
* LemonyNarrator - who isn't even ironic about it.
* MeaningfulName - "La Rue" is French for "The Street." Let's look again at Mlle "de la Rue"...
* NaiveEverygirl - Charlotte
* ScareEmStraight - If you run away with a man who looks good in a uniform - or even listen to women who are - ''gasp''! - at all sexual, you'll be abandoned and left to starve on the streets while pregnant, and if you're ''really'' lucky, you'll get to die in your father's arms.
* {{Sex Is Evil}}
* ToxicFriendInfluence - Mademoiselle de la Rue
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