Every woman would like to be Lady Marguerite Blakeney, born St Just. Having recently made her debut at Comedie Francois, Marguerite married Sir Percy Blakeney aka Scarlet Pimpernel. Charming, intelligent, beautiful, with childlike eyes and a delicate face, Marguerite captures everyone's attention. Yet Marguerite is portrayed as a stereotypically weak, impulsive woman whose identity revolves around her husband. It's quite ridiculous how much Marguerite's happiness lies with her husband, Sir Percy Blakeney aka Scarlet Pimpernel. One of Marguerite's biggest difficulties throughout the story is convincing him to love her again, and until he did, she couldn't sleep soundly. Her husband, who travels to France to save the aristocrats, risks being guillotined during his missions. Armand, her brother and member of the Scarlet Pimpernel League responsible for bringing the fugitives to Pere Blanchard's cabin, is in the same danger of execution. Yet Marguerite only cares about the husband she realized she loved the night before, completely ignoring the brother who helped raise her. "My brother!" cries when Sir Andrews points this out. "Heaven help me, but I'm afraid I've forgotten." Later he shouts: “No! NO! NO! NO! Oh, God in heaven! this cannot be! let us then let Armand's blood fall on his head! let her be branded as his killer! even he who loved her despised and hated her for this, but God! oh God! save him at all costs!” The very man she called “the only being in the world she loved. . . truly and constantly", the man for whose safety the Scarlet Pimpernel spied, is cast aside for the frivolous husband with whom she fell in love only yesterday. Marguerite's life centers on Percy to the point... middle of paper ... she is the star of London, “the charming young actress of the Comédie Francaise” who “glided through republican, revolutionary and bloodthirsty Paris” like a comet with a trail behind her of everything there was more illustrious, more interesting in intellectual Europe”. Marguerite is the conventional image of a charming young socialite as a weak character who is allowed to attribute responsibility to external forces rather than act; when she acts, it is only for the sake of her husband, and even then her efforts are futile, she represents the stereotype of overly emotional wife. Her appearance is intended to be the ideal of female beauty. Marguerite Blakeney is the flawless, respectful and good wife that everyone envies.