Bad Karma In Charlotte Temple

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In the highly didactic novel, Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson, there is a consistent and prominent lesson regarding bad karma. Rowson implies that mistreating one’s trust can result in bad karma, even death. Rowson demonstrates this lesson to her mainly young and female audience through the events that occurred to Charlotte Temple and Mademoiselle La Rue. In the novel, Charlotte being highly malleable, allows Mademoiselle La Rue to convince her to elope with her lover, John Montraville. Once in America, La Rue betrays the indigent Charlotte Temple in order to secure her wealth and her arbitrary marriage with Mr.Crayton. La Rue was being explicitly selfish and acting immorally. In the novel Charlotte takes an excruciating on foot expedition