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Social Message / Comedy of Manners She Stoops To Conquer She Stoops To Conquer Play by Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops To Conquer is a comedy with some serious social message / Comedy of Manners About "She Stoops to Conquer" A.N. Jeffares writes, "there are many reasons for play's enduring popukarity, Goldsmith sets out to make us laugh and does so successfully. Side by side he provides a serious social message." The play is a timeless comedy, farcial in plot, but often shrewd in characterisation, realistic in illustration of human nature and social picture. "She Stoops To Conquer" aims at to convey a social message through the presentation of the 'folies and foibles' of man and women and as such it has an element of social criticism. But in the later part of the play the dramatist has lost sight of social criticism and concentrates on the element of fun so much so that the play becomes an enterta...

Miss. Neville and Miss. Hardcastle in She Stoops To Conquer She Stoops To Conquer Play by Oliver Goldsmith Miss. Neville and Miss. Hardcastle Constance Neville and Kate Hardcastle are two contrasted pictures of young womanhood of the middle class society of the 18Th century. According to Collins, "the personality of Kate Hardeastle is emphasised by contrast with Constance Neville." As compared with Kate, Neville is a pale, colourless creation. Kate dominates the action from beginning to end. She leads the man of her heart as she wills. Neville plays an insignificant and passive role except towards the close of the play. She is led by the man of her heart. To speak the truth, Neville is a foil to Kate. Kate Hardcastle and Constance Neville are cousins. They live under the same roof. Miss Neville is an orphan and lives with her aunt Mrs. Hardcastle. Kate has both her parents alive and is the app...

Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer She Stoops To Conquer Play by Oliver Goldsmith Who do you think is the central character in 'She Stoops To Conquer' ? Support your answer. --OR-- Comment on the dramatic function of Tony Lumpkin in 'She Stoops To Conquer.' Tony Lumpkin is the central figure in 'She Stoops To Conquer' — the very key-stone of arch on which whole comedy is built. It is he who sets the main plot in motion and introduces complications in it. As a life-force of the comic subplot, Tony develops it, introduces complications in it and rounds it off. Apparently he is a 'fool', a 'booby', a 'whelp and hound' as his step-father calls him. But his role in the play shows him not as a fool, but as a youngman with a highly fertile and inventive brain. Throughout the play he is the most interesting character. For this William Blake comme...