Explanations
Act- III, Scene- I.
Hardcastle: I was never so surprised……..all my faculties.
Miss Hard: I never saw anything……….the world, too.
Hard: …what a fool I was…….wit at a masquerade.
Miss Hard: Sure, you mistake papa…….that bashful manners.
Miss Hard: Sure, sir, you …….so modest.
Hard: And can you be serious………but a fool to him.
Miss Hard: He treated me with…….’ Madam, I would not for the world detain you.’
Hard: He spoke to me as………a maker of punch.
The above line/lines is/are taken
from the play named “She Stoops to Conquer”, written by Oliver Goldsmith. Here
the dramatist shows the dualism of Marlow that make confused to Mr. Hardcastle
and Miss Hardcastle as well as the audience through the conversation between
Kate and Mr. Hardcastle.
The hero
of the main plot, Marlow, has a dual character. On hand, we find him as a very
over confident, arrogant upper class boy who doesn’t feel simplest interest to
show modesty to common people like Tony or Mr. Hardcastle. At the very first
meeting of him with Mr. Hardcastle, he (M) thinks that he (H) is a innkeeper
and his house is a inn. So, as a innkeeper, who belongs from a lower class
family, Marlow treats him as an immodest person. Though he (M) doesn’t know
that the innkeeper is actually Mr. Hardcastle. And another unknown Marlow we
find with Kate, the heroin of the main plot. Marlow is abnormally bashful to
continue a formal communication with her. At their first meeting Marlow has
become so nervous that he tries to escape from the situation. So, when Mr.
Hardcastle and Kate has started their private conversation about Marlow, both
of them become so confused about the dual character of Marlow.
The dualism
of Marlow makes the heroin puzzled. But when she has realized that she stoops
her position to conquer Marlow’s love.
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