Upon reading Charlotte Temple, I noticed an all around vibe of deception among some of the characters. Primarily from Montriville and his best mate Belcour towards the women Charlotte and La Rue. Whenever, Charlotte had determined within herself not to develop a "clandestine" "correspondence,” Montriville always seemed to bombard her with his fancy speech and sweet talk her into changing her mind. Belcour seemed to be much the same as Montriville only more blatant.
This type of thing continues to happen among adolecence even today, when the young girl is over taken by a young man's handsome features, that she doesn't even take the time to look beyond that mask and see just what kind of person he really is. It seems that young men have a knack of taking advantage of girls and young girls have a knack for being very gullible and naive. I do not know what issue this could categorize under, but from the list posted on Angel, I suppose that this could relate to the topic of The Good Bad Boy.
Learning in the Age of the Trigger Warning
11 years ago
I agree totally with you. I am starting to wonder if there is a secret school that young boys go to to learn how to get over on young women. I dont understand why we are so naive. I dont think young girls think to much about certain situations. When we are young girls we see the exterior and jump. We dont give it much time or thought about it and next thing you know "mr. perfect" is on to the next. I think it has something to do with all these fantasy love books and movies. It fills our heads with a whole bunch of rubbish that we spend most of our lives looking for. Then after you know it we are in the same place as when we started looking for him. I think that young women need to learn about realizem and finally realize that men need us we don't need them!
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