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Evelina: Madame Duval
Throughout the novel Evelina, Fanny Burney pushes our belief of a woman's role in "the novel". By using two depraved characters who, we feel, need to be punished for crimes they commit against our heroine, we are asked to question our moral judgement. Through Sir Clement Willoughby, we discover that we easily despise any man who attempts to force himself on our hero ....
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.... and Sir Clement Willoughby first meet at an assembly in London. He asks Evelina to dance with him and because she wants to be available for our hero, she lies and tells him she is already engaged. This arouses his curiosity and he begs to know with whom she is engaged. Our heroine refuses to tell him and he becomes rather forward in his line of questioning. Evelina tells him that he has "tormented me to death; you have forced me from my friends, and intruded you ....
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