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She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer . By Oliver Goldsmith. Why Goldsmith? . “She Stoops to Conquer” is a play It’s set in Britain just prior to the American Revolution . Basic plots. Three plots in one. Upper class man meets upper class girl thinking she’s a barmaid.

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She Stoops to Conquer

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  1. She Stoops to Conquer By Oliver Goldsmith

  2. Why Goldsmith? • “She Stoops to Conquer” is a play • It’s set in Britain just prior to the American Revolution

  3. Basic plots • Three plots in one. • Upper class man meets upper class girl thinking she’s a barmaid. • Upper class man meets father of upper class girl thinking he’s the innkeeper of the “inn.” • Woman with inherited jewels and man secretly love each other instead of woman loving son of upper class man’s wife, keeping jewels out of the family.

  4. What is the effect of an unexpected plot development in this author’s narrative? • Upper class man meets father of upper class girl thinking he’s the innkeeper of the “inn.” • She Stoops to Conquer Page 18

  5. Where does this play a role? • Mr. Hardcastle sees his guest arriving and Marlow approaches the “inn.” Conflicts arise as each tries to understand the other person. • Eventually Marlow sees Mr. Hardcastle as a nosy innkeeper who tries to be a gentlemen, forgetting he’s the innkeeper. • Mr. Hardcastle sees Marlow as a rude, impudent guest with no sense of manners.

  6. How do they take it? • Marlow gets mad. • What kind of inn has the innkeeper and their family join in for dinner? • Right after, Marlow meets miss Hardcastle. • Since Marlow is in an inn, miss Hardcastle must be a barmaid. • Since she is merely a barmaid, Marlow feels more comfortable speaking to her.

  7. So how does the problem resolve itself? • Marlow finds out through miss Hardcastle that he is not in an inn and, instead, is in the house of the person he was trying to reach in the first place. • He finds out that miss Harcastle is not a barmaid, but an upper class woman whom he was arranged to be with.

  8. Summarize • Why is that an unexpected plot development? • If you were to meet a very important person, get lost, stay at what you think is a hotel only to find out it’s the person you were to meet, wouldn’t you find that strange and funny enough to tell stories about it? • Marlow is uncomfortable speaking with upper class women. If he never believed e was in an inn, he would have never thought that miss Hardcastle was a barmaid and build up the courage to speak to her and evidently fall in love with her.

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