The+Scarlet+Pimpernel

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**Attention:** Just start with the second half. We already talked about the other ones in class.
Remember: You do not have to reply to all of them, but respond to at least one per chapter.

Chapter 1 What is the author's opinion of the old ways of the French nobility? (1-2) What is the author's opinion of the bloody techniques of the new French government? What characteristics does Bibot have? How is Bibot representative of the French people?

Chapter 2
What characteristics does Mr. Jellyband possess? How is Jellyband representative of the British people? What attitudes do Mr. Jellyband and Mr. Hempseed hold towards the French revolution? What do they each want England to do about the French?

Chapters 3-4
What reason do Lord Anthony and Sir Andrew give for risking their lives in the league of the Scarlet Pimpernel? (29-30) What aspects of these chapters suggest that they have deeper reasons for doing so? (29-32)

Chapter 5
How does Lady Blakeney handle the Comtesse's insult? What does this suggest about her?

Chapter 6-7
Why did Sir Percy and Marguerite marry? What is their marriage like? Why does the Vicomte offer to fight a duel? What is the meaning of the last paragraph of Chapter 6? What does the title of Chapter 7 mean? What is Armand's secret? (56) What is Marguerite's? (55-6)

Chapter 8
What is the cause of Sir Percy and Marguerite's estrangement? (59- 61) How does Marguerite feel about the deaths of the St. Cyr family? How does Marguerite feel about the Scarlet Pimpernel? (67-8) Why does she refuse to help Chauvelin at the inn?

Chapter 9
What is the significance of the French seizure of the papers of Sir Andrew and Lord Tony?

Chapter 10
What choice does Chauvelin force Marguerite to make? How does this relate to her experience with the St. Cyr family? Why doesn't Marguerite ask her husband for help? (88-89)

Chapter 11
How is the Comtesse forced to acknowledge Lady Blakeney? What is the female opinion of the Scarlet Pimpernel according to Lady Blakeney? What is the male opinion of the Scarlet Pimpernel according to Sir Percy?

Chapter 12
Why does Marguerite spy on Sir Andrew? What does Marguerite's success as a spy reveal about her?

Chapter 13
What makes Marguerite inclined to help Chauvelin? What makes Marguerite not want to help Chauvelin?

Chapter 14
Why does Marguerite decide to help Chauvelin? What does Chauvelin learn of the Scarlet Pimpernel?

Chapter 15
What does Chauvelin tell Marguerite?


 * Choji: ** Chauvelin tells Marguerite that nothing had happened in the dining room, that he and Sir Percy both slept soundly.
 * Yoshi: ** He tells her that her brother Armand's life is on a thread.

How are we to interpret this?


 * Choji: ** Either that nothing happened and that the Scarlet Pimpernel somehow managed to avoid suspicion, or that Chauvelin is lying.

Chapter 16
How has Marguerite's choice changed her? (125-6) How has Marguerite's opinion of Sir Percy changed? (125) Why didn't Marguerite explain the St. Cyr incident to Sir Percy previously? Why does she explain it now? What does Sir Percy think of his wife?

Why does Sir Percy hid his feelings for his wife?
 * Choji: ** He loves her very much, but does not trust her.
 * Yoshi: ** She remembers when he courted her around and now he is a lazy nincompoop.

Chapter 17
What aspects of this chapter suggest to us Marguerite is not the cleverest woman in Europe?


 * Choji: ** She takes a while to process the note, and walks around in a daze for a while after.
 * Yoshi: ** She has to read the note over and over again until she can understand it

Chapter 18
What does Marguerite finally figure out?


 * Choji: ** That Percy is the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Chapter 19
What are the consequences of Marguerite's decision to help Chauvelin? What does Marguerite resolve to do?


 * Choji: ** To go to France and intercept Percy and warn him about Chauvelin.

Chapter 20
How does Marguerite now feel about Sir Percy? Why does she want to go to France?


 * Choji: ** To save her husband.

Chapter 21
What do the Jellybands think of Lady Blakeney's behavior?


 * Choji: ** They think that she is eloping with Sir Andrew, and dissaprove.

Chapter 22
What changes does Marguerite note about the French people? (178)


 * Choji: ** She thinks that they are sly, sneaky, and untrustworthy.

Chapter 23
Why must the Scarlet Pimpernel not leave France at once?


 * Choji: ** Because he always keeps his word, and he must help the aristos escape.

Chapter 24
How is Chauvelin's plan for capturing the Scarlet Pimpernel similar to the techniques used by Bibot in chapter one?

Choji: They both find their target and then send soldiers.

Chapter 25
Which man comes off better in the confrontation between the Scarlet Pimpernel and Chauvelin?


 * Choji: ** The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Chapter 26
What is Chauvelin's attitude to the old Jewish man?


 * Choji: ** He acts like he has a contagious disease and treats him like a dog.

Why is the old Jewish man mad at Reuben Goldstein? What does Chauvelin plan to do that night with the Scarlet Pimpernel after he catches him?

Chapter 27
What do we learn of Chauvelin's character in this chapter?


 * Choji: ** That he enjoys hunting down his prey.

Chapter 28
What is Marguerite's plan now?


 * Choji: ** To somehow alert Sir Percy before he is caught.

Chapter 29
What new choice does Chauvelin ask Marguerite to make?


 * Choji: ** To choose between her brother or her husband.

Chapter 30
What choice does Marguerite make? How had the Republican army's principles hindered them? Why is Benjamin, the old Jewish man, beaten?


 * Choji: ** Because they failed to come across the broken cart of the Scarlet Pimpernel on their way to the hut.