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* GreyAndGrayMorality: The highwayman is an outlaw who spends his time off-page robbing and potentially killing someone, but in the process of trying to kill him the redcoats physically abuse Bess, kiss her and tie her up so that she'll be forced to watch them shoot her lover.

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* GreyAndGrayMorality: The highwayman is an outlaw who spends his time off-page robbing and potentially killing someone, but in the process of trying to kill him the redcoats physically abuse Bess, kiss her and tie her up with a loaded musket jammed beneath her breast so that she'll be forced to watch them shoot her lover.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: The highwayman is an outlaw who spends his time off-page robbing and potentially killing someone, but in the process of trying to kill him the redcoats physically abuse Bess, forcibly kiss her and tie her up so that she'll be forced to watch them shoot her lover.

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* GreyAndGrayMorality: The highwayman is an outlaw who spends his time off-page robbing and potentially killing someone, but in the process of trying to kill him the redcoats physically abuse Bess, forcibly kiss her and tie her up so that she'll be forced to watch them shoot her lover.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: The highwayman is an outlaw who spends his time off-page robbing and potentially killing someone, but in the process of trying to kill him the redcoats physically abuse Bess, forcibly kiss her and tie her up so that she'll be forced to watch them shoot her lover.

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Tim tells the redcoats about where the highwayman will be. He probably just intended to get the highwayman killed, but because the redcoats are sadists, they tie Bess up with a musket beneath her breast so she'll have to watch them shoot her lover. She shoots herself to warn the highwayman, and when he sees her dead, he ends up charging straight into the ambush and getting himself killed.



* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Tim tells the redcoats about where the highwayman will be. He probably just intended to get the highwayman killed, but because the redcoats are sadists, they tie Bess up with a musket beneath her breast so she'll have to watch them shoot her lover. She shoots herself to warn the highwayman, and when he sees her dead, he ends up charging straight into the ambush and getting himself killed.
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%%* DeathIsDramatic: And ''how!''

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%%* * DeathIsDramatic: And ''how!''''how!'' Both deaths in the poem, those of Bess and the highwayman, are described in detail and take up a good section of the verses in which they happen.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The landlord, Bess's father. He's given the tiniest mention when the redcoats show up, but it's never revealed what became of him. The music video for Music/FleetwoodMac's "Everywhere", which adapts the poem, has him be the victim of a TapOnTheHead by the Redcoats.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The landlord, Bess's father. He's given the tiniest mention when the redcoats show up, but it's never revealed what became of him. The music video for Music/FleetwoodMac's "Everywhere", which adapts the poem, has him be the victim of a TapOnTheHead by the Redcoats.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The landlord, Bess's father. He's given the tiniest mention when the redcoats show up, but it's never revealed what became of him.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The landlord, Bess's father. He's given the tiniest mention when the redcoats show up, but it's never revealed what became of him. The music video for Music/FleetwoodMac's "Everywhere", which adapts the poem, has him be the victim of a TapOnTheHead by the Redcoats.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Tim tells the redcoats about where the highwayman will be. He probably just intended to get the highwayman killed, but because the redcoats are sadists, they tie Bess up with a musket beneath her breast so she'll have to watch them shoot her lover. She shoots herself to warn the highwayman, and when he sees her dead, he ends up charging straight into the ambush and getting himself killed.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Tim the ostler is described as ugly, with eyes that are "hollows of madness" and "hair like moldy hay." He loves Bess, but she loves the highwayman.



* MurderTheHypotenuse: Tim[[note]]the ostler[[/note]]'s plan.

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* MurderTheHypotenuse: Tim[[note]]the ostler[[/note]]'s plan.Tim, who loves Bess, overhears her highwayman lover telling her when he'll return to the inn, and tells the redcoats where he'll be so they can get him.

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