impropriety and seduction
to ask someone to be a wife or husband, or to ask them to redefine their filial ties and adjust love for mother or father, is to ask a lot.
"Oh stay, unkind Montraville," cried she, catching hold of his arm, as he pretended to leave her, "stay, and to calm your fears, I will here protest that was it not for the fear of giving pain to the best of parents, and returning their kindness with ingratitude, I would follow your through every danger, and, in studying to promote your happiness, insure my own. But I cannot break my mother's heart, Montraville; I must not bring the grey hairs of my doating grandfather with sorrow to the grave, or make my beloved father perhaps curse the hour that gave me birth." she covered her face with her hands, and burst into tears.
-from Charlotte Temple, by Susan Haswell Rowson
this girl is pure and niave, which is why the pursuer wants her so greatly: corruptive nature is man. this is why it is easy to treat Good and Sensitive Cordelia with such manipulation. the character in Charlotte Temple suffers the same fate as Cordelia.
to ask daughters to verbally constitute all of their supposed love for their father, is to ask to be misled, no matter how high the amount of honesty.
"Oh stay, unkind Montraville," cried she, catching hold of his arm, as he pretended to leave her, "stay, and to calm your fears, I will here protest that was it not for the fear of giving pain to the best of parents, and returning their kindness with ingratitude, I would follow your through every danger, and, in studying to promote your happiness, insure my own. But I cannot break my mother's heart, Montraville; I must not bring the grey hairs of my doating grandfather with sorrow to the grave, or make my beloved father perhaps curse the hour that gave me birth." she covered her face with her hands, and burst into tears.
-from Charlotte Temple, by Susan Haswell Rowson
this girl is pure and niave, which is why the pursuer wants her so greatly: corruptive nature is man. this is why it is easy to treat Good and Sensitive Cordelia with such manipulation. the character in Charlotte Temple suffers the same fate as Cordelia.
to ask daughters to verbally constitute all of their supposed love for their father, is to ask to be misled, no matter how high the amount of honesty.