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Madame Pernelle Character Analysis

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Madame Pernelle: Let’s go Flipote, let’s go from here. I hate this place. Elmire: I can hardly keep up with you. You are walking so fast. Madame Pernelle: Leave-off dear, don’t come any further near me. I don’t want you to get bothered. Elmire: There’s no botherance we are just doing our duties that we owe to you. But mother, why are you leaving very quickly? Madame Pernelle: I can’t stand the way this household is running. And no one cares for me or do what I wish. I am very dissatisfied by the behavior of you all because no one pays a heed on any of my advice. There’s no respect for me in this house as everyone shouts in front of me. And truly I believe that this is the house of hooligans. Dorine: If…. Madame Pernelle: You, my dear, are a bold lass who’s quite talkative and very impertinent. You poke your nose in every matter and give your opinion about everything. Damis: But….. Madame Pernelle: You, my grandson, are the biggest fool I’ve seen. It’s me, your grandmother predicted this very early to my son, your father that you’ll grow up to become a worthless brat and give him nothing but grief and disappointment. Mariane: I think…. Madame Pernelle: My God! You, his sister, you seem to be so quiet, so gentle, so pious, so sweet. But as there is a saying that, “Still waters are the most dangerous” and under this cover of a naïve girl, you are very sly from inside. Elmire: But mother…. Madame Pernelle: Daughter, no offence but all of your conduct is totally

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