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    Marguerite Blakeney, formerly known as Marguerite St. Just, she is Armand St. Just’s sister and wife of Sir Percy Blakeney. Throughout the book she reveals her true personality, due to the choices she makes and the people around her. She is torn between being Lady Blakeney who is completely English and French Marguerite. Lady Blakeney is kind, sweet, loves Percy. French Marguerite hides behind a mask of cold and brittleness. Orczy uses Marguerite’s dual identities as a symbol of England vs. France schism. From the very beginning of the book, French Marguerite is described as the most fashionable, beautiful, and the cleverest woman in the London. She’s a social butterfly, not caring who she hurts. However, inside she cares deeply for people. When she hears that she sent Marquis de St. Cyr and his whole family to the guillotine, guilt clouds over her. She acts fragile and unfeeling trying to cover her guilt. Since she is a former actress, she knew how to disguise her feelings very well. We see the English Marguerite once in chapter four. When Comtesse commanded Suzanne not to speak to Marguerite, Marguerite’s cold glare dissolved into “a wistful, almost pathetic and childlike look” (40). Lady Blakeney shows that she doesn’t want to ostracize by her friends or by anyone. She is only about…

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    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,…

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    Scarlet Pimmernel Case Study

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    15. After hearing the Comtesse describe her dislike of Marguerite St. Just, now Lady Blakeney, why does Sir Andrew fighting with his fork and Lord Anthony look uncomfortable, glancing apprehensively toward Jellyband, who also looks uncomfortable? After hearing the Comtesse described her dislike of Marguerite and hoping to never meet Marguerite while she stayed in England, Sir Andrew, Lord Anthony, and Jellyband looked uncomfortable because Lake Blakeney and her husband Sir Percy were expected…

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    A current and common reading of Virginia Woolf’s experimental novel The Waves places the character of Bernard against his friends as a dominating force. The novel is noted for its pluralism. The six speaking characters in The Waves express themselves through short monologues, sharing nearly equal space with one another until the concluding section. It is over the final forty-four pages of the novel that Bernard is fully emphasized, the voices of Louis, Rhoda, Jinny, Neville, and Susan giving way…

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    Just War Theory Essay

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    In the just war tradition, just cause is one of the requirements of jus ad bellum—that is, one of the conditions of justification to wage war. International law recognizes only one just cause for war: self- or collective defense against an aggressor. Contemporary legal notions also recognize a prevention of large-scale violations of human rights by their own government just cause for war. These are the most elemental just causes for war in the realm of international law and just war theory.…

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    Arguments Against Just War

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    War and conflict have been a part of the human experience for most of recorded history, and many scholars use the concept of just war to analyse wars in their own time and in the past, and to consider how to create long lasting peace. Just war theory forms the basis of much of international law today, and still can be used to analyse modern day conflict, such as the Russian Federation’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Just war theory in its most coherent form was first discussed by Saint Thomas…

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    affirmation towards the route on which her life treads (Moore 1). Moore employs this mantra as a way to exhibit the loneliness and melancholy of the speaker. The lyrics also feature numerous metaphors, each seemingly with no relation to the next. Examples include “it’s only half past the point of no return,” “[it’s] the thunder before the lightning, “[it’s] the breath before the kiss, and [it’s] the fear before the phrase” (Moore 5) (Moore 7) (Moore 15). Moore persists to confabulate on this…

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    Why The Moon Is Down

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    Mayor would have been completely justified if he had rallied the town to immediately fight against the invaders according to the Just War Theory. A philosophy professor, Brian Orend, explains the six rules of the Just War Theory: just cause, right intention, public declaration by proper authority, last resort, probability of success, and proportionality (Orend 32). By looking through the lenses of the Just War Theory, we can determine whether or not the Mayor would have been justified waging a…

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    Just War Analysis

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    Eduardo Carvalho Zanello Writ 102 Sec 004 Instructor John Herold Just War Final Draft 21 October 2015 An Analysis of Modern Wars and the Just War Concept The concept of just war in Western Cultures goes back to thinkers like Thomas, Cicero, and Augustine. The main goal of the principles embraced in this theory was to provide fair causes to go to war and its prosecution, and not to let people be fooled by false ideals of glory. Some concepts like “proportionality”, “just cause”, and “weapons…

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    Just War Essay

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    thinking and debating the age-old question “Is war ever justified?” or “Can a war truly be Just?” We all know wars are terrible and cause many deaths and problems, I also understand war is and should always be the last and final option to try in any situation. In this Essay, I will be presenting some facts and reasons to why war can be justified and what it takes to make a war just. I will be referring the Just war theory frequently and this theory refers so some basic guide lines to when war…

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