The Critical Concerns of the Sisters of Mercy are issues our world today has to deal with. These issues include concern for the earth, non- violence, women and children, racism, and immigration. Both The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy and Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier show concern for nonviolence, but Rebecca also shows concern for women. The Scarlet Pimpernel is a novel about the French Revolution, Scarlet Pimpernel is a disguised hero who tries to save as many of the aristocrats as he can before they are sent to the guillotine. Both support of nonviolence and violence are shown in this book. Supporting the concern of nonviolence is the Scarlet Pimpernel, “He might have easily done that… yes… quite easily… and… besides… what connection could there be between her exquisite dandy of a husband, with his fine clothes and refined lazy ways, and, the daring plotter who rescued French victims from beneath the very eyes of the leaders of bloodthirsty revolution?”(Orczy 145). Violence is present in this novel because of it being the French Revolution. “And daily, hourly, the hideous instrument of torture claimed its many victims- old men, young women, tiny children”(Orczy 8). The violence in this brings out the hero in Scarlet Pimpernel and he shows the concern for nonviolence. Also this quote could show concern for women and
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Maxim’s late wife Rebecca died out on her boat, because of bad weather; at least that's what everyone thought until they discovered the truth. “‘The woman buried in the crypt is not Rebecca,’ he said. ‘It’s the body of some unknown woman, unclaimed, belonging nowhere. There was never an accident. Rebecca was not drowned at all. I killed her. I shot Rebecca in the cottage cove’”(Maurier 270). This was a big plot twist we find out Maxim really killed her. He couldn't stand her anymore, so going against the topic of nonviolence he murdered her instead of finding a peaceful solution, like her should have
Maxim’s late wife Rebecca died out on her boat, because of bad weather; at least that's what everyone thought until they discovered the truth. “‘The woman buried in the crypt is not Rebecca,’ he said. ‘It’s the body of some unknown woman, unclaimed, belonging nowhere. There was never an accident. Rebecca was not drowned at all. I killed her. I shot Rebecca in the cottage cove’”(Maurier 270). This was a big plot twist we find out Maxim really killed her. He couldn't stand her anymore, so going against the topic of nonviolence he murdered her instead of finding a peaceful solution, like her should have