- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Mrs. Poulteney’s servant Millie is sleeping in the same bed with Sarah, but the narrator makes it clear that they aren’t lovers. Millie has simply had such a miserable life of poverty in the countryside that Sarah’s kindness draws her. In this passage, Fowles attacks the romanticization of the poor. George Morland was a painter of rural scenes who is guilty of this in his art.
Fowles argues that telling sentimentalized stories about the lives of the poor, artists minimize the true misery of their situations and prevent wealthier people from recognizing the need for reform and generosity in order…