- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
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After Alcée sneaks away from the plantation, Clarisse calls out to his black servant, Bruce, who is startled by her voice. His language here is the most “improper” of any of the characters in the story, as it has the most contractions, colloquial phrases, idioms, and grammatical errors. This demonstrates that he is in the lowest class, the servant class. In this way, readers can see that though the story takes place after the Civil War, racial equality is not yet in place in the South.
“At the ’Cadian Ball” often uses phonetic spelling for colloquial language such as this…