The Conscious Lovers · Character
Mr. Sealand
A self-made India merchant who intends to inspect the woman keeping his daughter's suitor from the altar, and to settle the matter with merchant's briskness.
major
Also known as Sealand, old Sealand
First appearance: act i
As a major figure in The Conscious Lovers, Mr. Sealand is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Sealand has built a vast fortune by trade and means to marry his only daughter into Sir John Bevil's family — until rumours of an unknown woman in Bevil's life force him to investigate for himself. He arrives at Indiana's lodgings with a table-book and an air of authority, ready to be abrupt, and finds himself in a household whose mysteries unsettle his businesslike confidence. His willingness to look into uncomfortable facts, rather than simply insist on the match, makes him the play's unlikely engine of discovery.
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- Social
- Family
- Other
Character groups
- Central love plot
- Protagonist
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Closing
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- Sir John Bevil
social · ambivalent
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- Indiana
family · positive
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See Mr. Sealand in act i