- 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
After Sarah tells Charles her story, Charles returns to Lyme thinking that he has handled the situation well, has helped Sarah, and is now finished associating with her. In this passage, the narrator explains that Charles’s failure to understand Sarah stems in part from the fact that she is too modern for the Victorian Age, and so she doesn’t fit in with Victorian currents of thought.
Sarah is characterized throughout the book by her baffling and seemingly irrational actions, so any insight that the narrator provides into the workings of her mind is significant. Here, he suggests that Sarah’s unpredictability…
