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The Blazing World · Character

Fortune

Personification of fortune, referenced as a guiding force in the narrative.

minor

Also known as Lady Fortune, Great Fortune

First appearance: the description of a new world called the blazing world

Fortune's tie to The Duchess of Newcastle is one of the pressures that moves The Blazing World—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.

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With The Duchess of Newcastle (psychological): Fortune personifies the capricious luck that alternately favors and frustrates the Duchess's ambitions. With The Empress (psychological): Fortune represents the…

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9 connections

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TDThe Duchess of…TEThe EmpressPRPrudenceFOFollyHOHonestyFOFortune

Relationship types

  • Psychological
  • Rivalry
  • Other

Character groups

  • Virtues and Guides
  • Protagonist
  • Historical and Symbolic Authorities

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Narrative arc

Story tension across the book.

SetupClimax
  • Setup
  • Breaking point

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