Neo Classical LiteratureParmar Dipali K.Roll No: 30Topic: Unit 4 ‘She Stoops To Conquer’M.A. Sem. 1Batch: 2015-’17Email Id: dipaliparmar247@gmail.comDepartment of English (M.K.B.U.)

She stoops to Conquer (Reflecting the reality of the upper class)

Removing the Mask

Marriage Policy

Appearance/Behavior One of the elements that Goldsmith

highlights is appearance or behavior. Today we believe that one’s behavior does

not indicate who someone is yet many characters in the play are blinded to a character’s behavior.

Marlowe and Hasting treat Mr. Hardcastle cruelly because they think him the landlord of an inn, and confused by his behavior, which seems forward.

Throughout the play the characters assume that they understood someone’s behavior but actually it’s not like that.

Class Based Mentality

The Play is not exactly focusing on the class, yet the theme is based upon it.

The decisions that the characters make are based on what class they are.

i.e. Tony openly loves a low class people but Marlow must hide his love for Kate as he thinks she is a poor barmaid who belongs to good family but no fortune.

There are several characters who are money conscious. i.e. Marlow, Constance & Mrs. Hardcastle. Marlow doesn’t reveal his feelings for Kate because of her

poverty and her lack of dowry if he marries her. Constance doesn’t want to ran away with her admirer

because she knows if she will ran away , she will not be given her heritage.

Mrs. Hardcastle doesn’t want to let Constance marry except her own son Tony, so that she keep the jewels of Constance to herself.

Importance of Money

Writer’s Aim This play shows Goldsmith’s desire to

reintroduce the audience to the “Laughing Comedy” that derived from a long history of comedy which laughs at the human vices.

This type of comedy stands in contrast with the “Sentimental Comedy” of his time which praised virtues and reinforced bourgeois mentality.

Goldsmith and Sheridan were first who wrote against sentimental comedy.

Their main aim is to give a pure laughter to their audience.

Highlight

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http://www.gradesaver.com/she-stoops-to-conquer/study-guide/themes

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JAp2ba4dkk http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BcuS6gboXCw

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