In my last post we saw how Arabella broke down the physical description of Mr. Hervey. She was intrigued by him and assumed he was of some significant status because of his attire. When Mr. Hervey just so happens to ride across Arabella one day she has it in her fairy tale mind that he is so infatuated with her beauty that he is going to take her. As a matter of fact he didn't even know that it was her, he just saw the figure of a woman who looked fair.
"Mr. Hervey, who happened to be at some distance, observing a lady on horseback, who made a very graceful figure, he rode up to her in order to have a nearer view."-19
All the dude wanted to do was see who this hot chick was from afar. Doing what men do, he scoped her out and got a little closer to see the goods. It just so happened to be Arabella. Lennox even goes on to say
"Arabella suddenly seeing him, and observing he was making up to her, her imagination immediately suggested to her that this insolent lover had a design to seize her person"-19
She screamed and caused a humiliating scene for Mr. Hervey. I thought this was genius as far as plot distortion because I just knew that they were going to have some type of romantic encounter, but she monkey wrenched that from the getup. She is so full of herself to think that she is so beautiful that he became so madly in love with her that he had to kidnap her. She called hin a ravisher. She is so indulged in her make belive books that her perception of reality is distorted to the highest degree. After reading that part I felt sorry for poor Mr. Hervey because his reputation had to suffer from such a stupid incident
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