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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The sibling poets Christina and Dante Rossetti.
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* HiredHelpAsFamily: Mrs Tranter is a kindly and very affectionate spinster (Mrs is an honorary title) who must love someone. She has her niece Ernestina to love, but Tina only comes to stay with her aunt once a year. The narrator says that Mrs Tranter is very motherly to her servant girl Mary and notes that it would be considered extremely inappropriate by other upper-class Victorians.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The sibling poets Christina and Dante Rossetti. Real life and quite famous people who appear in the final part of the novel. Sarah becomes their companion and assistant.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The sibling poets Christina and Dante Rossetti. Real life and quite famous people who appear in the final part of the novel. Sarah becomes their companion and assistant.
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* FrenchJerk: Varguennes is a French lieutenant who had relations with Sarah after she has nursed him to health and then left her [[spoiler: according to all of Sarah's accounts]], exacerbated by the other characters' prejudices against France in general.
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* FrenchJerk: Varguennes is a French lieutenant who had relations with Sarah after she has had nursed him to health and then left her [[spoiler: according to all of Sarah's accounts]], exacerbated accounts]]. Exacerbated by the other characters' prejudices against France in general.
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** [[spoiler: Subverted in the second ending. Sarah has given birth to a daughter but she and Charles don't get to live together as a family. He doesn't even know he has a child.]]
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** [[spoiler: Subverted in the second ending. Sarah has given birth to a daughter but she daughter. She and Charles meet, but they don't reconcile and they get to live together as a family. He doesn't even know he has a child.]]
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* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Charles imagines Mrs. Poulteney winding up in hell.
* FrenchJerk: Varguennes, [[spoiler: in all of Sarah's accounts]], exacerbated by the other characters' prejudices against France in general.
* TheFundamentalist: Mrs. Poulteney.
* FrenchJerk: Varguennes, [[spoiler: in all of Sarah's accounts]], exacerbated by the other characters' prejudices against France in general.
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* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: Sarah is said to be very intelligent, and her intelligence is connected to judging people correctly and knowing their worth. The narrator even compares her ability to tell if someone is good or bad to some kind of computer. For example, she immediately recognizes that Mrs Tranter is a kind woman whom she can trust and she's similarly drawn towards Charles.
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Charles imaginesMrs. Mrs Poulteney winding up in hell.hell. The hell is his imagination is rather conventional.
* FrenchJerk:Varguennes, Varguennes is a French lieutenant who had relations with Sarah after she has nursed him to health and then left her [[spoiler: in according to all of Sarah's accounts]], exacerbated by the other characters' prejudices against France in general.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Kindhearted Mrs Tranter, Sarah's former employer.
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** Kindhearted MrsTranter, Tranter. She treats her servants really well and is respected in her community.
** Sarah's formeremployer.employer. She didn't want to let Sarah go after she was rejected and abandoned by her lover. Unlike majority of Victorians, she didn't feel "fallen women" should be punished for whatever they did. Sarah however didn't want to stay in her household.
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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Played straight in the first ending and averted in the second]].
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** [[spoiler: Subverted in thesecond]].second ending. Sarah has given birth to a daughter but she and Charles don't get to live together as a family. He doesn't even know he has a child.]]
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* MaidenAunt: Ernestina's Aunt Tranter is an old maid, though she's referred to as Mrs Tranter.Tranter (at the time, it was common to refer to unmarried women past a certain age as Mrs as a courtesy), who is a kindly woman and satisfied with her lot in life. She adores her niece Ernestina and she's a very good mistress to her servants. She's particularly fond of and even motherly to Mary (her servant girl).
* NobilityMarriesMoney: Ernestina is the only daughter of a rich industrialist and fabulously wealthy. She's engaged to Charles who is from aristocratic circles. He's not poor though and actually a future heir to his uncle's house and title. Turns out his uncle remarries and Charles is left much poorer than presumed. He's now expected to "deserve" Ernestina's dowry and correctly assumes Ernestina's father will want him to be involved in the family business. Charles doesn't show it, but his gentleman's honour is insulted. In the imagined ending, Charles expects that his resentment will gradually vanish and that he'll find his new responsibilities interesting. However, in reality he breaks off the engagement, but mainly because of his infatuation and relationship with Sarah.
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* AllWomenArePrudes: Most of the characters, male and female, believe this to be the case, but the trope itself is Double Subverted in the case of Tina, who does occasionally entertain sexual thoughts, but immediately banishes them and feels guilty for her "impurity". Overall, the trope is explained by the choking sexual repression of the era.
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* AllWomenArePrudes: Most of the characters, male and female, believe this to be the case, but the trope itself is Double Subverted in the case of Tina, who does occasionally entertain sexual thoughts, but immediately banishes them and feels guilty for her "impurity". Mary, being of a lower class, seems quietly to avert the problem because she isn’t subject to Victorian ''middle class'' puritanism. Overall, the trope is explained by the choking sexual repression of the era.
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* BreachOfPromiseOfMarriage: Charles, an aristocrat and an heir to his ucle's family estate, is engaged to Ernestina Freeman, a rich industrialist's daughter. Charles meets Sarah Woodruff to whom he grows increasingly attracted and later decides to break off his engagement with Tina. He has to speak with Tina's father first and he wants to drag Charles through dirt and disgrace him in the polite society, because he both broke Tina's heart and made her "a rejected fiancee", worsening her prospects of ever marrying well.
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* BreachOfPromiseOfMarriage: Charles, an aristocrat and an heir to his ucle's uncle's family estate, is engaged to Ernestina Freeman, a rich industrialist's daughter. Charles meets Sarah Woodruff to whom he grows increasingly attracted and later decides to break off his engagement with Tina. He has to speak with Tina's father first and he wants to drag Charles through dirt and disgrace him in the polite society, because he both broke Tina's heart and made her "a rejected fiancee", worsening her prospects of ever marrying well.
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* DistractedByMyOwnSexy: Tina has a rather longish session by the mirror when she admires herself as one of the prettiest girls she knows. She gets a bit aroused and thinks about future sex with Charles, her fiancé. She also feels guilty and thinks that it's inappropriate because she's a Victorian girl.
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* DistractedByMyOwnSexy: Tina has a rather longish session by the mirror when she admires herself as one of the prettiest girls she knows. She gets a bit aroused and thinks about future sex with Charles, her fiancé. She also feels guilty and thinks that it's inappropriate because she's a respectable Victorian girl.
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* InSeriesNickname: Sarah has quite a few: Tragedy, the French Lieutenant's woman or the French Lieutenant's whore.
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* WhamLine: After an early chapter ends by posing the question of who Sarah truly is: [[spoiler: "I do not know. This story I am telling is all imagination." The chapter that then follows is the author ruminating on how his characters seem to be taking on lives of their own, independent of his attempts to control the narrative.]]
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* WhamLine: After an early chapter ends by posing the question of who Sarah truly is: [[spoiler: "I do not know. This story I am telling is all imagination." Up until that point, the novel has appeared to be a fairly typical Victorian romance pastiche, albeit one which tends to refer to events and objects from well after the novel's setting. The chapter that then follows is the author ruminating engaging in metafictional musing on how his characters seem to be taking on lives of their own, independent of his attempts to control the narrative.]]
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A 1969 {{Postmodern}} novel by English author John Fowles. A pastiche of Victorian novels, ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' sets up the familiar archetypes and dilemmas found in such books and set about quietly subverting them with a cavalcade of {{Lampshade Hanging}}s, {{Shout Out}}s and [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth-wall breakings]]. Writing itself is one of the major subjects of the book, and the seemingly omniscient narrator/author's struggle to accurately convey his story are as much a concern of the book as the tribulations of the characters.
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A 1969 {{Postmodern}} novel by English author John Fowles.
A pastiche of Victorian novels, ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' sets up the familiar archetypes and dilemmas found in such books and set about quietly subverting them with a cavalcade of {{Lampshade Hanging}}s, {{Shout Out}}s and [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth-wall breakings]]. Writing itself is one of the major subjects of the book, and the seemingly omniscient narrator/author's struggle to accurately convey his story are as much a concern of the book as the tribulations of the characters.
A 1969 {{Postmodern}} novel by English author John Fowles.
A pastiche of Victorian novels, ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' sets up the familiar archetypes and dilemmas found in such books and set about quietly subverting them with a cavalcade of {{Lampshade Hanging}}s, {{Shout Out}}s and [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth-wall breakings]]. Writing itself is one of the major subjects of the book, and the seemingly omniscient narrator/author's struggle to accurately convey his story are as much a concern of the book as the tribulations of the characters.
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Adapted as a 1981 film directed by Karel Reisz and starring Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/JeremyIrons.
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Adapted as a 1981 film directed by Karel Reisz Reisz, scripted by Creator/HaroldPinter and starring Creator/MerylStreep and Creator/JeremyIrons.
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A 1969 {{Postmodern}} novel by English author John Fowles, adapted into a film in 1981. A pastiche of Victorian novels, ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' sets up the familiar archetypes and dilemmas found in such books and set about quietly subverting them with a cavalcade of {{Lampshade Hanging}}s, {{Shout Out}}s and [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth-wall breakings]]. Writing itself is one of the major subjects of the book, and the seemingly omniscient narrator/author's struggle to accurately convey his story are as much a concern of the book as the tribulations of the characters.
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A 1969 {{Postmodern}} novel by English author John Fowles, adapted into a film in 1981.Fowles. A pastiche of Victorian novels, ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' sets up the familiar archetypes and dilemmas found in such books and set about quietly subverting them with a cavalcade of {{Lampshade Hanging}}s, {{Shout Out}}s and [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth-wall breakings]]. Writing itself is one of the major subjects of the book, and the seemingly omniscient narrator/author's struggle to accurately convey his story are as much a concern of the book as the tribulations of the characters.
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* WoundedGazelleGambitWoundedGazelleGambit: One interpretation of Sarah's [[spoiler: lies to Charles about her history]] is that she was attempting to attract his attention by inhabiting the role of the tragic figure.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Kindhearted Mrs Tranter, Sarah's former employer.
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* AllWomenArePrudes: Most of the characters, male and female, believe this to be the case, but the trope itself is Deconstructed and explained by the choking sexual repression of the era.
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* AllWomenArePrudes: Most of the characters, male and female, believe this to be the case, but the trope itself is Deconstructed Double Subverted in the case of Tina, who does occasionally entertain sexual thoughts, but immediately banishes them and feels guilty for her "impurity". Overall, the trope is explained by the choking sexual repression of the era.
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* GoalOrientedEvolution: Charles thinks that evolution works this way; the narrator points out that he has misread Darwin.
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* GoalOrientedEvolution: Charles thinks that evolution works this way; the narrator points out that he has misread Darwin. Darwin.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The sibling poets Christina and Dante Rossetti.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The sibling poets Christina and Dante Rossetti.
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* TheJeeves: Averted. Sam is of lower social standing and, although good-hearted, is not especially competent. [[spoiler: When push comes to shove, he is not very loyal, either]].
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* TheJeeves: Averted. Sam is of lower social standing and, although good-hearted, is not especially competent. [[spoiler: When push comes to shove, he is not very loyal, either]].
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* InSeriesNickname: Sarah has quite a few: Tragedy, the French Lieutenant's woman or the French Lieutenant's whore.
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* DistractedByMyOwnSexy: Tina has a rather longish session by the mirror when she admires herself as one of the prettiest girls she knows. She gets a bit aroused and thinks about future sex with Charles, her fiancé. She also feels guilty and thinks that it's inappropriate because she's a Victorian girl.
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* PaintingTheFourthWall: The narrator repeatedly discusses the novel form and whether fictional characters can be said to have their own personality or will.
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* MultipleEndings: A pair of mutually exclusive possible endings, as well as an earlier "ending" which is shown to be Charles imagining the future.
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* MultipleEndings: A pair ConsummateLiar: [[spoiler: Sarah's accounts of mutually exclusive possible endings, as well as an earlier "ending" which is shown to be her relationship with the French lieutenant, Varguennes, are incredibly convincing. But fictional.]]
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Charlesimagining imagines Mrs. Poulteney winding up here.
* FrenchJerk: Varguennes, [[spoiler: in all of Sarah's accounts]], exacerbated by thefuture.other characters' prejudices against France in general.
* TheFundamentalist: Mrs. Poulteney.
* GoalOrientedEvolution: Charles thinks that evolution works this way; the narrator points out that he has misread Darwin.
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Charles
* FrenchJerk: Varguennes, [[spoiler: in all of Sarah's accounts]], exacerbated by the
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Sarah, the prostitute with whom Charles has a brief and unsuccessful encounter. She is extremely nurturing with both Charles and her daughter.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Charles' response when the prostitute tells him her name is Sarah.
* TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone: Unbeknownst to Charles, he's regarded this way by the servants and tenants on his uncle's estate.
* TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone: Unbeknownst to Charles, he's regarded this way by the servants and tenants on his uncle's estate.
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* VictorianNovelDisease: Played with in Tina's case. Her parents are positive that she's suffering from consumption (tuberculosis), and insist on treating her as a permanent invalid. In fact, Tina is completely fit.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Within the novel, of Sarah. Charles sees her as a BrokenBird who is innocent of wrongdoing, Grogan suspects she may be manipulative and histrionic.
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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Played straight in the first ending and brutally averted in the second]].
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* PaintingTheFourthWall: The narrator repeatedly discusses the novel form and whether fictional characters can be said to have their own personality or will. YourMileageMayVary as to if this is ingenious or unbearably smug.
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* PaintingTheFourthWall: The narrator repeatedly discusses the novel form and whether fictional characters can be said to have their own personality or will. YourMileageMayVary as to if this is ingenious or unbearably smug.