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Evelina and the Confines of Society
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In Evelina, Frances Burney shows the reader just how tumultuous Society's unspoken rules were, especially for women.

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Evelina and The Confines of Society In Frances Burney\'s Evelina the title character is thrustinto London Society for the first time with no one to guide her through itsmaze of manners and silent laws When she attends her first privateassembly she remarks that the gentleman as they passed and re-passed looked as if they thought we were quite at their disposal and only waitingfor the honour of their commands Burney X Indeed Evelina\'sobservation is an astute one but what she doesn\'t know

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Thedifference in the way Lord Orville, who believes she is truly of goodparentage and not "ill-bred" (Burney XII) as Sir Willoughby often suggests,really demonstrates the vast differences in the characters of the two men,and not that of Evelina, who acts the same throughout regardless of herchanges in status. Evelina: or The History of a Young Girl's Entrance into the World. Again, it is the men that control everyone else'sopinion. Evelina is doubly in the dark because she is not only obscure, butalso a woman, and furthermore, a woman of somewhat questionable birth. Evelina is a fresh face in London and has been raised in solitudeaway from Society, and most anyone else. When she attends her first privateassembly, she remarks that "the gentleman as they passed and re-passed,looked as if they thought we were quite at their disposal, and only waitingfor the honour of their commands," (Burney X). Norton & Co., 1965. Like most women of the time, Evelina must eventually learn to walk thefine lines of proper behavior if she expects to be accepted in LondonSociety, and a male dominated world.Works Cited:Burney, Francis. Oneof the main themes of the book is Evelina's quest to prove her parentageand find out who she is-and to not become a question mark in Society. If Evelina was of low birth, than Sir Clement could have his way withher and move on to the next, if she was higher however, this would not beso easily acceptable in the Society that ruled peoples' lives. New York: W.W. "Evelina and the Culture Industry." Criticism, Vol. 37, 1995. Because of this she is the perfectvessel for the reader to view the complicated world of Regency England. Women in late18th century Britain, were pawns in the ever shifting world of male-dominated culture and Society. Orville demonstratesjust how much low standing was reviled by suggesting that if Evelina wasill-bred she must be wearing a "mask" in order to deceive everyone intothinking-and acting-otherwise. In"Evelina and the Culture Industry," Timothy Dykstal writes, "theextraordinary thing about the public sphere depicted in Burney's novel isthat...all the middle-class characters, even Evelina herself, areremarkably inarticulate about the culture that surrounds them." It is truethat only the wealthy and titled characters are versed in the goings on ofthe public sphere, mainly because they have created those goings onthemselves and have complete control over them, just as in factual lateeighteenth century England. (X, XII).Dysktal, Timothy. This illuminates popular belief at the time about the importanceof breeding. "Ill-breeding!" Lord Orville exclaims as response to Willoughby, "impossible!That elegant face can never be so vile a mask!" (XII). Evelina and The Confines of Society In Frances Burney's Evelina, (1778), the title character is thrustinto London Society for the first time with no one to guide her through itsmaze of manners and silent laws. This shows that Society was not only filledwith secret rules one was simply expected to know, but it was also a veryexclusive place, which once entangled in could become a difficult maze ofmanners and breeding. Indeed, Evelina'sobservation is an astute one, but what she doesn't know, and couldn't know,is her part in the elaborate game going on in the ball room.

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