- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
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Rosalie Murray has just rejected a proposal from the rector Mr. Hatfield. Describing her interactions with Mr. Hatfield, Rosalie explains to a shocked, disapproving Agnes why she is so pleased with herself for having broken Mr. Hatfield’s heart: his emotional devastation appeals to her “female vanity.” Notably, Rosalie claims that vanity is the “most essential attribute of our sex.” In other words, she is saying that vanity or excessive ego is the defining attribute of women in general.
Rosalie certainly did not learn this belief from Agnes, so the novel implies that she must have picked it up from either…