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Character of Mrs Malaprop in a nutshell
Or Sheridan’s ‘The Rivals’:
Mrs Malaprop
Or Malaprop: an enjoyable
character altogether
Or Mrs Malaprop in ‘The
Rivals’
Or Malapropism: a brief
idea with reference to Sheridan’s ‘The Rivals’
Or What is ‘Malapropism’?
Elucidate with reference to ‘The Rivals’.
Or The immortal character
of Mrs Malaprop in Sheridan’s play ‘The Rivals’.
In The Rivals, a five-act Restoration Comedy of Manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, we come across the conspicuous character of Mrs Malaprop. As we analyse the name of the lady, we come to discern that the very word of her name is derived from French. That is to say, mal a propos, a French expression, when translated into English, means ‘inappropriate’. Hence, it is quite evident that the very name of the female character in Sheridan’s play makes a lot of sense in this regard.
Immortal with her eminence, Mrs. Malaprop likes utilizing all kinds of bombastic
words and expressions in order to create an impressive impact on her listeners through
and through. Although an ignorant and idiotic lady, she goes on parading her worthless
pedantry to all and sundry. She never even knows that she is laughed at by the
others. She, in fact, is full of vaunt and vanity, and too much self-obsession.
Mrs. Malaprop, who was actually Lydia’s aunt, was full of contradictions and devoid of integrity in her character. Moreover, it is to be noted that her untrue pedantry provides us all with guffaws of laughter. When she means ‘obliterate’, ‘extricate’, ‘ironically’ and so on, she utters ‘illiterate’, ‘extirpate’, ‘laconically’ etc. respectively. Nevertheless, she is a thoroughly enjoyable character and an immortal creation by Sheridan.
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