Themes -- Candor
Candor: a social mode highly esteemed by a writer like
Jane Austen
, an openness expressing a lack of dissimulation and a sense of common bonds with one's fellows.
Letter 4.6
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("Frankly")
Letter 4.6
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("I have communicated to him without disguise") [1831 only]
1.1.7
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("To pursue my studies alone")
1.3.8
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("Blame")
1.4.7
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("Instead of doing harm")
1.5.6
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("I did not speak")
1.6.6
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("My country")
1.6.8
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("I resolved to remain silent")
1.6.10
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("The murderer discovered")
1.6.12
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("Frankness of disposition")
1.7.2
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("A plain and simple explanation of the facts")
1.7.3
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("To part with it again so soon")
1.7.7
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("I subscribed to a lie")
1.7.10
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("The misery that I then endured")
1.7.10
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("Torn by remorse, horror, and despair") [1831 only]
3.1.2
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("Candour")
3.1.3
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("Concealing the true reasons")
3.2.1
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("I tried to conceal")
3.4.9
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("Some destiny")
3.5.1
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("They all died at my hands")
3.5.6
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("My letter was calm and affectionate")
Walton 10
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("Actuated by selfish and vicious motives")
Walton 12
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("Generous and self-devoted being")
