70 pages • 2 hours read
The Buccaneers
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938
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Essay Topics
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How does Nan’s evolving sense of agency shape the novel’s treatment of marriage as a social contract? In what scenes does her decision-making most forcefully challenge aristocratic customs and familial expectations?
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How does Miss Testvalley’s position as governess expose tensions of class, gender, and national identity?
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Examine the depiction of transatlantic social-climbing through the mothers’ strategies in New York and London. To what extent does the novel portray these strategies as pragmatic adaptation rather than moral compromise?
