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* TooYoungToDieLamentation: When the whole university decides to commit suicide for love of the eponymous lady, Noaks keeps saying that he's too young to die, despite the fact that half of the suicides-to-be are in fact younger than him.
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Zuleika Dobson has risen from humble beginnings as a governess to become a famous conjurer, not so much because her performances are brilliant (they aren't), but because any young man who sees her can't help but fall head over heels in love with her. For the first time in many years, she is visiting her grandfather, the Warden of Judas College, [[{{Oxbridge}} Oxford]]. At dinner, she meets the young Duke of Dorset.
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Zuleika Dobson has risen from humble beginnings as a governess to become a famous conjurer, not so much because her performances are brilliant (they aren't), but because any young man who sees her can't help but fall head over heels in love with her. For the first time in many years, she is visiting her grandfather, the Warden of Judas College, [[{{Oxbridge}} [[UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} Oxford]]. At dinner, she meets the young Duke of Dorset.
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* ParodySue: The Duke is a parody of [[GaryStu contemporary romance novel heroes]] - he's appointed to the incredibly prestigious Order of the Garter while still an ''undergraduate'' and is elected to an even more exclusive Oxford club (and becomes the only member and refuses to admit anyone else because he doesn't think anyone else is worthy of the honor - he admits a couple of other members in his last year, solely to prevent the club from going extinct; he doesn't think ''they'' are really worthy either.)
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* ParodySue: The Duke is a parody of [[GaryStu contemporary romance novel heroes]] - -- he's appointed to the incredibly prestigious Order of the Garter while still an ''undergraduate'' and is elected to an even more exclusive Oxford club (and becomes the only member and refuses to admit anyone else because he doesn't think anyone else is worthy of the honor - -- he admits a couple of other members in his last year, solely to prevent the club from going extinct; he doesn't think ''they'' are really worthy either.)
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''Zuleika Dobson'' is a 1911 novel by Max Beerbohm.
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Zuleika Dobson has risen from humble beginnings as a governess to become a famous conjurer, not so much because her performances are brilliant (they aren't), but because any young man who sees her can't help but fall head over heels in love with her. For the first time in many years, she is visiting her grandfather, the Warden of Judas College, [[{{Oxbridge}} Oxford]]. At dinner, she meets the young Duke of Dorset.
Within twenty-four hours of their meeting, they have fallen in love, fallen out of love, quarrelled, and the Duke has resolved to kill himself for love of her. At her pleading, he delays his suicide for another day. He warns his friends to keep away from her, for his infatuation with her has driven him to this pass. [[SchmuckBait This advice doesn't have quite the effect he hopes.]]
The novel can be found online [[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1845/1845-h/1845-h.htm here.]]
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* TheAce: The Duke of Dorset. Not that any of it helps him once he falls for Zuleika.
* DirtyCoward: Noaks.
* EmpathicEnvironment: Played with. The Duke's suicide is accompanied by thunder and lightning, but they turn up before he's really ready for them.
* FemmeFatale: Zuleika. Only with her, it's turned up to OverNineThousand.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Subverted -- Zuleika falls in love with the Duke because she ''thinks'' he's not impressed by her charms, but it turns out he was just kind of bad at showing it. She falls out of love with him as soon as she realizes that he really is in love with her... and when he falls out of love, she falls in love again.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Reflecting on the fatal events of the novel, Zuleika's chief regret is that it won't be possible to prove that each and every death was for love of her. [[spoiler:She decides that she'll have to do better next time: Cambridge, here she comes.]]
* {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}: The [[WordOfGod introduction to the 1922 edition]] is clear on this point -- Zu-leek-a, not Zu-like-a.
* JumpOffABridgeRebuttal: If the most admired undergraduate at the university committed suicide, would others follow? '''Oh yes.'''
* KillEmAll: Every single undergraduate in Oxford, dead.
* LemonyNarrator
* ParodySue: Zuleika is a parody of SuetifulAllAlong.
** The Duke is a parody of [[GaryStu contemporary romance novel heroes]] - he's appointed to the incredibly prestigious Order of the Garter while still an ''undergraduate'' and is elected to an even more exclusive Oxford club (and becomes the only member and refuses to admit anyone else because he doesn't think anyone else is worthy of the honor - he admits a couple of other members in his last year, solely to prevent the club from going extinct; he doesn't think ''they'' are really worthy either.)
* SeriousBusiness: Drowning yourself for love of a FemmeFatale is all very well, but it can't be allowed to interrupt a boat race.
* SoleSurvivor: Noaks... briefly.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Zuleika has never loved, because she cannot love anyone who adores her. And ''everyone'' adores her.
* SuetifulAllAlong: Parodied
* YouCantFightFate: By the time the Duke thinks better of his plan of suicide, it's too late: the traditional omens of a death in his family have already taken place.
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Within twenty-four hours of their meeting, they have fallen in love, fallen out of love, quarrelled, and the Duke has resolved to kill himself for love of her. At her pleading, he delays his suicide for another day. He warns his friends to keep away from her, for his infatuation with her has driven him to this pass. [[SchmuckBait This advice doesn't have quite the effect he hopes.]]
The novel can be found online [[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1845/1845-h/1845-h.htm here.]]
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!!Tropes:
* TheAce: The Duke of Dorset. Not that any of it helps him once he falls for Zuleika.
* DirtyCoward: Noaks.
* EmpathicEnvironment: Played with. The Duke's suicide is accompanied by thunder and lightning, but they turn up before he's really ready for them.
* FemmeFatale: Zuleika. Only with her, it's turned up to OverNineThousand.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Subverted -- Zuleika falls in love with the Duke because she ''thinks'' he's not impressed by her charms, but it turns out he was just kind of bad at showing it. She falls out of love with him as soon as she realizes that he really is in love with her... and when he falls out of love, she falls in love again.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Reflecting on the fatal events of the novel, Zuleika's chief regret is that it won't be possible to prove that each and every death was for love of her. [[spoiler:She decides that she'll have to do better next time: Cambridge, here she comes.]]
* {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}: The [[WordOfGod introduction to the 1922 edition]] is clear on this point -- Zu-leek-a, not Zu-like-a.
* JumpOffABridgeRebuttal: If the most admired undergraduate at the university committed suicide, would others follow? '''Oh yes.'''
* KillEmAll: Every single undergraduate in Oxford, dead.
* LemonyNarrator
* ParodySue: Zuleika is a parody of SuetifulAllAlong.
** The Duke is a parody of [[GaryStu contemporary romance novel heroes]] - he's appointed to the incredibly prestigious Order of the Garter while still an ''undergraduate'' and is elected to an even more exclusive Oxford club (and becomes the only member and refuses to admit anyone else because he doesn't think anyone else is worthy of the honor - he admits a couple of other members in his last year, solely to prevent the club from going extinct; he doesn't think ''they'' are really worthy either.)
* SeriousBusiness: Drowning yourself for love of a FemmeFatale is all very well, but it can't be allowed to interrupt a boat race.
* SoleSurvivor: Noaks... briefly.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Zuleika has never loved, because she cannot love anyone who adores her. And ''everyone'' adores her.
* SuetifulAllAlong: Parodied
* YouCantFightFate: By the time the Duke thinks better of his plan of suicide, it's too late: the traditional omens of a death in his family have already taken place.
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