- 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
Sarah comes upon Charles in the Undercliff and begs him to let her tell him her story. He objects that he must not meet her in secret as she suggests, as it would be most improper. In this passage, Fowles suggests that in order to survive in his society, Charles unconsciously adjusts his behavior to fit in with whatever society demands of him at any given moment.
By using Charles’s beloved Darwin to explain his actions, Fowles reduces Charles to an object of science, an animal struggling for survival, which makes Charles seem more fallible, though he likes to think…