Cold Comfort Farm- Flora - Character analysis in A Level and IB English Language & Literature

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Created by: Isabella
Created on: 14-05-13 17:43

Personality

Role

Controlling
Likes everything to be order
Controls the farm and sorts out everyone's problems
Civlised, from London
Dislikes the Starkadders- usually derogative to them
Sees life as a game, and everyone she knows is a piece in that game, whom she can manipulate

Flora is the deux es machina (God machine, she comes to the Farm and sorts out the problems, then leaves)
Protagnist
Central to the plot- she "civlises" and changes the farm

Development (Growth & change)

Other information

Not much- at the end, she is still controlling- only now she has succeeded in controlling everyone
In the way she acts towards Charles- "I quite like him/I love you, Charles!"- she accepts her feelings towards him and agrees to marry him

Has unwanted attention from Mr. Mybug
Uses satire to guide herself throughout the novel
Opening- comparisons to Jane Austen's Emma and Jane Austen herself

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