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Charitty Royal. Charity Royall displays both self indulgence and self control.
Judge Royall represented law and structure in her life. ...
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Charity Royall displays both self indulgence and self control. Judge Royall represented law and structure in her life. He was the one sure thing that she had. He was her only monetary means of survival and without him she would not be were she is or would not have a place to stay, food to eat, or clothes to wear. Then on the other hand there was Lucius Harney, who represented everything else in her life. Excitement, adventure, fun, and finally the ability to fulfill and longtime dream of being with a sophisticated person some one that was not from North Dormer the town that she despised so much.
Judge Royall was the only father figure she ever had. He made a promise to her jail bound father to give Charity a better life. He drove all night to find Charity up in the mountain; she knows that and because of that she feels some what compelled to stay with him so that he is not lonely. “Charity ‘felt softness in her heart’ in knowing that he drove all night to fetch her from the mountain (266)”. She knows that she runs his household and that he cannot be with out her because all in all she is the only person that he has.
In spite of everything…Lawyer Royall ruled in North Dormer; and Charity ruled in Lawyer Royall’s house. She had never put it to herself in those terms; but she had known her power, knew what it was made of and hated it. (p. 146)
The same though goes for her. He is the only one that she has. When he was going to send her to boarding school he decides not to send her.
After he decides not to send her away at all, Charity, who is always “sick of North Dormer” (22) is disappointed but finally understand his decision: “He and she, face to face in that sad house, had sounded the depths of isolation; and though she felt no particular affection for him, and not the slightest gratitude, she pitted him because she was conscious that he was superior to the people about him and that she was the...
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