Lady Rucie Campbell

Question 1

“She was wealthy and influential enough to dispence with a conscience”

Answer 1

LRC did not have to accept the cone gatherers back to the forest but after hearing that everyome thought she should, she agreed. This highlights how she needs other people to make her desicions

Question 2

“To obey christ by being humble must mean to betray her husband”

Answer 2

This shows how LRC husbands views influence her own as she doesnt want to do anything that he doesnt approve of even though they go against her christian beliefs.

Question 3

“she had issued an order for all her employees that they were to be treated with sympathy”

Answer 3

Shows that L.R.C is a good person at heart with good intentions

Question 4

“‘Never mind Duror”

Answer 4

Shows that L.R.C is beginning to turn a blind a eye to the evil being committed and is even contributing to it slightly

Question 5

“she was rich and high in rank, but she was also generous and just”

Answer 5

again shows that L.R.C had good intentions and wants to see right done but is manipulated so she cannot do so.

Question 6

Fear, anxiety, love…were in her mind, but not anger.”

Answer 6

Shows that as the novel ends, L.R.C realises the wrong she has done to the cone-gatherers, she returns to the good natured women we were told she was at the beginning of the book.

Question 7

Give 6 LRC quotes

Answer 7

1. “To obey christ by being humble must mean to betray her husband”
2. “She was wealthy and influential enough to dispence with a conscience”
3. “she had issued an order for all her employees that they were to be treated with sympathy
4. “‘Never mind Duror”
5. “she was rich and high in rank, but she was also generous and just”
6. Fear, anxiety, love…were in her mind, but not anger.”