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The Crimson Petal and the White

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The Crimson Petal and the White	comment	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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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_129749df	comment	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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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Bodley and Ashwell
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_20613a2a	type	Victorian Novel Disease
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_20613a2a	comment	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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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_27690f66	comment	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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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_3c0a4666	comment	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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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Sugar deliberately plays up to this trope in order to keep men fascinated.
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_49a2599d	comment	Platonic Prostitution: Henry visits Caroline for 'research'. His brother (wrongly) assumes that this is as implausible as it sounds.
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: Agnes, several times.
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_4e3d253b	comment	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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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_4f84cdef	comment	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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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_557838d1	comment	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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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: At 800 pages.
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Henry and Mrs Fox. It doesn't end well.
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Sugar
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_66755d29	comment	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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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_707193f6	type	Aloof Big Brother
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_707193f6	comment	Aloof Big Brother: Played with, with the pious Henry and the philander William.
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Watch your step!" and "God damn God!"
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_77063cd7	comment	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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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_9002083e	type	Character Exaggeration
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_9002083e	comment	Character Exaggeration: Henry in the adaptation. See above.
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_936b8c22	type	Victorian London
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_936b8c22	comment	Victorian London: Needless to say.
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_9843be73	comment	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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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_98ba5dfe	type	Unproblematic Prostitution
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_98ba5dfe	comment	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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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_9af977f4	type	Second-Person Narration
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_9af977f4	comment	Second-Person Narration: The writing is intentionally based on ninteenth century novels. Most blatant at the beginning.
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_a822e80e	type	Lit Fic
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_a822e80e	comment	Lit Fic
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: Agnes holds this view. Averted, however, with Henry Rackham, Mrs Fox and the Rescue Society.
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: A major element of the plot.
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_b11ac9f5	comment	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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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_b8eb11d7	type	Definitely Just a Cold
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_b8eb11d7	comment	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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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_bdc94cd9	type	Compressed Adaptation
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_bdc94cd9	comment	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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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_cf6d4bad	type	Steampunk
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Agnes most notably, Sugar skirts this.
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	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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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_d2a5bed2	type	Redhead in Green
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_d2a5bed2	comment	Redhead In Green: In the BBC series, one of Sugar's main costumes is green.
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Caroline
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The Crimson Petal and the White / int_ff7e9adf	type	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
The Crimson Petal and the White / int_ff7e9adf	comment	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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