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Pride In The Scarlet Pimpernel By Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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he Scarlet Pimpernel is a mystery novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy that teaches the consequences of having too much pride as well as the fact that people wear masks to cover up who they really are.

The author took human nature into account when writing this book because she made the characters realistic in the way that they have flaws. One of these common flaws that the characters shared was the fact that they all wore masks.

Percy is the main character in this novel and when you read about him, you get the impression that he's pretty stupid. It's a surprise to everyone that he’s the Scarlet Pimpernel because of the stupid mask that he wore throughout the beginning of the novel. As the Scarlet Pimpernel, he has to keep his identity a secret, …show more content…

She also pretends not to love Percy by poking fun at him constantly. Deep inside, she does love love him and she doesn’t want to see him get caught by Chauvelin.

Finally, there is Chauvelin who is the “Ambassador for France”. He uses this power to be a sneaky little spy and also find the Scarlet pimpernel. He also pretends to be Marguerite's friend and then ends up using her to get information on the Scarlet Pimpernel by blackmailing her. He tells her that he will get her brother killed because he knows that her brother works for the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Another common flaw that the characters of this novel were given is pridefulness. Percy, Marguerite, and the French Aristocrats in general are all given this human-like …show more content…

You could say that he’s obsessed with power and position in the world and he’ll do whatever he has to do in order to keep everyone in-line. The author shows us just how prideful he was in this passage; “Instinctively, with sudden overmastering passion, at sight of her helplessness and of her grief, he stretched out his arms, and the next, he would have seized her and held her to him, protected from every evil with his very life, his very heart's blood. . . . But pride had the better of it in this struggle once again; he restrained himself with a tremendous effort of

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