The Scarlet Pimpernel begins during the French Revolution, with the revolutionaries waiting at the West Barricade for aristocrats to be sentenced to death by guillotine. Although many of the fleeing aristocrats were captured, quite a few escaped and survived with the help of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel. In England, fugitives meet with the League of The Scarlet Pimpernel and await the arrival of the latest escapees. Comtesse de Tournay is one of the escapees, along with her daughter and son, but her husband was left in Paris. She wishes to thank the Scarlet Pimpernel, but his identity is to remain a secret. Comtesse mentions the traitorous actions of the women in France, specifically Marguerite St. Just, who walks into the pub at that moment.
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For example, The Scarlet Pimpernel discussed French aristocrats, who were high in power, akin to pharaohs in Ancient Egypt or the leaders of the Shang dynasty. Pharaohs were the leaders in Ancient Egypt who maintained the safety and prosperity of Egypt, much like the French officer, Chauvelin, was told to do. Marguerite could be compared to the agricultural revolution, in a way. Both involved change, but in different ways. Marguerite changed within herself from the beginning of the novel to the end. In the beginning, she had condemned many French aristocrats to be guillotined, but in the end, she threw herself in front of the hut to save the refugees from being caught by Chauvelin and his soldiers. The agricultural revolution caused change for massive amounts of people. Agricultural Revolution is defined as “the change from food gathering to food production that occurred between ca. 8000 and 2000 B. C. E.” (6). The fugitives saved by the Scarlet Pimpernel could be compared to the travelling nomads discussed in chapter two of Earth and Its Peoples, because neither groups could stay in one place for an extended period of time. One exception would be that, instead of being attacked like the fugitives in The Scarlet Pimpernel, the nomads discussed in the textbook attacked Nubia, causing Nubia’s downfall in the early fourth century C. E. During the French Revolution, many nobilities were killed, and, although the nobilities weren’t killed by natural causes like the early settlers in the Stone Age, the massive amounts of death in both groups could be
For example, The Scarlet Pimpernel discussed French aristocrats, who were high in power, akin to pharaohs in Ancient Egypt or the leaders of the Shang dynasty. Pharaohs were the leaders in Ancient Egypt who maintained the safety and prosperity of Egypt, much like the French officer, Chauvelin, was told to do. Marguerite could be compared to the agricultural revolution, in a way. Both involved change, but in different ways. Marguerite changed within herself from the beginning of the novel to the end. In the beginning, she had condemned many French aristocrats to be guillotined, but in the end, she threw herself in front of the hut to save the refugees from being caught by Chauvelin and his soldiers. The agricultural revolution caused change for massive amounts of people. Agricultural Revolution is defined as “the change from food gathering to food production that occurred between ca. 8000 and 2000 B. C. E.” (6). The fugitives saved by the Scarlet Pimpernel could be compared to the travelling nomads discussed in chapter two of Earth and Its Peoples, because neither groups could stay in one place for an extended period of time. One exception would be that, instead of being attacked like the fugitives in The Scarlet Pimpernel, the nomads discussed in the textbook attacked Nubia, causing Nubia’s downfall in the early fourth century C. E. During the French Revolution, many nobilities were killed, and, although the nobilities weren’t killed by natural causes like the early settlers in the Stone Age, the massive amounts of death in both groups could be