The main sitting in the novel is in the town of Milton Northern; in the North of England. At first, it shows the life in the south of England and how it's simple and how the nature is pure; not destroyed by the industrial-era which was in the north. Then she moved to describe the life in North as the main character Ms. Margaret Hale moved to the North because of her father's religious matters. She starts describe the atmosphere of London and how it was crowded and filthy. She also describes the differences between classes, and how the low and worker class was treated badly.
The main character in this novel is Margaret Hale. She is one of the strongest female characters in the English literature. She may not as good as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen or as Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. But she was the good and the true heroine. It is like all the outer shape of the romances characters is obviously similar.
Dictionary.com" defines a heroine as: “a woman of distinguished courage or ability, admired for her brave deeds and noble qualities.” To be heroic is to be brave, intrepid, magnanimous, enterprising, illustrious for valor. The good heroine will have the greatest values to correct the mistakes in his society as he/she could. None of us want to read a book about a lovely angel as Elsie Dinsmore, for example. Margaret Hale is close to be perfect as far as that she “always doing the right thing”.
Margaret Hale wasn’t beautiful at first but at the end we the reader discover how she is really captivating. At first, she was lives in the lovely poetical place where everything is green and wide which can we say it is an innocent existence. Then she moved to the reality of the North, she was shucked, lost and empty at first she went there, and that appear when she say:
- “I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.”
But she adapted herself to this kind of life and shy try as she could to live the comfortable and pure life that she loss it in the South. She is a strong, determined lady who will put herself in the way of an angry throng in order to protect someone in need whatever class he or she was belongs to. She wins the admiration of many of the men in Milton, and eventually the love of John Thornton. The main reason for her popularity is her cheerful and spirited demeanor. When she met John Thorton in the first time, her life is start to change. She sees him as a kind man but later on she treated him as her enemy. Until the end she falls in love with him.
- “Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy. ”
The true women to Margaret Hale is appear when she says:
- “One of the first evidences of a real lady, is that she should be modest. By modesty we mean that she shall not say, do, nor wear anything that would cause her to appear gaudy, ill-bred, or unchaste. There should be nothing about her to attract unfavorable attention, nothing in her dress or manner that would give a man an excuse for vulgar comment. When we dress contrary to the rule of modesty we give excuse for unwholesome thoughts in the mind of those who look upon us, and every girl who oversteps these bounds makes herself liable to misunderstanding and insult, though she may be innocent of any such intention.”
,and that what she is really are from the beginning of the novel till the end.
In Conclusion, Margaret Hale is an inspirational character of bravery, determination, and selflessness. She loses everything that she loves, yet she clings to her duty, to her faith in God, to hope. There are moments when she is filled with doubt and faithlessness, but Margaret perseveres to the very end.