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The Crimson Petal and the White |
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TheCrimsonPetalAndTheWhite |
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The Crimson Petal and the White is a novel by Michel Faber, set in Victorian London and published in 2002. What Dickens would have written if Dickens was alive today, according to a review. Made into a three episode BBC drama in 2011. |
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All Men Are Perverts |
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All Men Are Perverts: Sugar's attitude to life, understandably. Also Henry is the closest thing we get to an aversion and he seems to see himself as a pervert. |
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Those Two Guys |
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Those Two Guys: Bodley and Ashwell |
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Victorian Novel Disease |
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Victorian Novel Disease: Played with. Emmeline Fox has actual tuberculosis. Agnes Rackham, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed, beautiful wife of William who is definitely not well at all, actually has a brain tumour but, as the author points out, none of the characters actually know this. |
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Literary Allusion Title |
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Literary Allusion Title: From Tennyson's poem 'Now sleeps the crimson petal'. The two main characters are a redhead, and a blonde always clad in white. |
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Noodle Incident |
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Noodle Incident: The chain of events that leads to William meeting Sugar begins with him seeking out a prostitute who will perform some sexual practice or other that is so outlandish even most prostitutes want nothing to do with it (but, he is told, Sugar might). We never do learn just what he wanted her to do. |
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl |
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Sugar deliberately plays up to this trope in order to keep men fascinated. |
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Platonic Prostitution |
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Platonic Prostitution: Henry visits Caroline for 'research'. His brother (wrongly) assumes that this is as implausible as it sounds. |
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Laughing Mad |
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Laughing Mad: Agnes, several times. |
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Downer Ending |
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Downer Ending: A significant difference from the novel is that while all the events are the same, the novel ends ambiguously with the sense that everything will end badly, while the TV series ends ambiguously with the possibility of things turning out well. |
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Smug Snake |
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Smug Snake: William Rackham. Played with, as he begins as this, then eventually the reader starts thinking they see some humanity in him. By the end, he's back to being an odious worm. |
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Adaptational Attractiveness |
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Adaptational Attractiveness: Averted. Henry in the novel is described as good looking and physically impressive, if a little solemn and intellectual, celibate and very religious, and in (requited) love with Mrs Fox. In the adaption, he's a good deal less attractive, and portrayed mainly as a sexually frustrated fool. Played straight with Mrs Fox, whose initial looks don't change, but ends the story in a lot better shape than she does in the novel. |
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Doorstopper |
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Doorstopper: At 800 pages. |
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Beta Couple |
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Beta Couple: Henry and Mrs Fox. It doesn't end well. |
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Only One Name |
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Only One Name: Sugar |
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Author Avatar |
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Author Avatar: In-story example. Sugar the prostitute is writing a wish-fulfilment novel about, er, a prostitute called Sugar who murders lecherous abusive men in spectacularly gory fashion. |
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Aloof Big Brother |
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Aloof Big Brother: Played with, with the pious Henry and the philander William. |
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Arc Words |
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Arc Words: "Watch your step!" and "God damn God!" |
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold |
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Sugar's friend Caroline is the classic version of this. Sugar herself is eventually revealed to be an example. Averted with Mrs Castaway. |
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Character Exaggeration |
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Character Exaggeration: Henry in the adaptation. See above. |
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Victorian London |
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Victorian London: Needless to say. |
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As You Know |
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As You Know: Averted to the extent that a lot of backstory and relevant plot details take a while for the reader to figure out. |
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Unproblematic Prostitution |
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Unproblematic Prostitution: Averted. Sugar pretends to love her work because that's what the clients want, but Faber makes it clear that this was a terrible, terrible job. |
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Second-Person Narration |
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Second-Person Narration: The writing is intentionally based on ninteenth century novels. Most blatant at the beginning. |
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Lit Fic |
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Lit Fic |
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Christianity is Catholic |
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Christianity is Catholic: Agnes holds this view. Averted, however, with Henry Rackham, Mrs Fox and the Rescue Society. |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: A major element of the plot. |
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Abusive Parents |
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Abusive Parents: Mrs Castaway, to Sugar, in spades. Mirrored in the case of Sophie, as her mother is incapable of caring about her and her father is vaguely apathetic. |
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Definitely Just a Cold |
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Definitely Just a Cold: Emmeline Fox has tuberculosis but insists to Henry (and herself) at first that there's really nothing all that wrong with her. |
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Compressed Adaptation |
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Compressed Adaptation: The BBC series is quite faithful to the spirit of the original while missing or summarising superflous events, and the only real differences are in the character arcs of Henry Rackham and Mrs Fox |
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Steampunk |
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Steampunk: The direction in the adaptation seems to be quite influenced by this. |
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Broken Bird |
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Broken Bird: Agnes most notably, Sugar skirts this. |
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No Periods, Period |
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No Periods, Period: Both averted and taken to extremes at the same time via the same character, Agnes, who has somehow become an adult woman without ever learning about menstruation, and hence believes she is hemhorraging to death every month, only to recover miraculously, only to have it all happen again and again... |
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Redhead in Green |
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Redhead In Green: In the BBC series, one of Sugar's main costumes is green. |
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Decoy Protagonist |
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Decoy Protagonist: Caroline |
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Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold |
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Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Agnes. Lampshaded by the author when he points out this is part of what makes her the idealised High Victorian beauty. |
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