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• Title: Mr. Pickwick's First Brush with the Law: Civil Disobedience in the Pickwick Papers (Critical Essay)
• Author : Dickens Quarterly
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 207 KB

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The climactic scene in chapter 22 of The Pickwick Papers describes the embarrassment that occurs when Mr. Pickwick tries to find his way back to his bedroom at night while staying at the Great White Horse at Ipswich, with its dark and labyrinthine passages. Having found what he thinks is his own room, he starts undressing and dons his nightcap, at which point he is horrified by the entrance of a middle-aged lady in curl-papers, returning to her bedroom (for it is her bedroom after all) and beginning to prepare for bed. A Fieldingesque scene of misunderstanding ensues which parallels the earlier misunderstanding between Mr. Pickwick and Mrs. Bardell. Further embarrassment results in chapter 24, depicting the morning after the night before, when Pickwick's traveling companion, Mr. Magnus, introduces his betrothed, Miss Witherfield, who is, of course, the middle-aged lady in curl-papers. Miss Witherfield screams, Magnus and Pickwick quarrel, and Magnus tells Pickwick that "he should hear from him." This leads Miss Witherfield to vividly imagine a duel in which Pickwick shoots and possibly kills Magnus, and thus she sets off the rest of the action in this chapter and the next by making her way to the local magistrate, Mr. George Nupkins, Esquire, in order to have not Magnus but the innocent Pickwick and his unwitting second, Tupman, arrested for inciting a duel.

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