Yet at the end of the novel he is again installed at Bidnold, back in the King’s graces. Rosie Pierpont warns Merivel of seeing the King again, lest he live his life in a circle (p. Do you think Margaret will change his ways? Merivel is a committed womanizer, but in a twist of fate he is given a daughter instead of the son he thought he would have. Why does Merivel pursue Katherine? Does he truly love her? How do his feelings for her change as the relationship progresses?

What does he gain from each of these occupations? In his quest to be “useful,” Merivel tries many different occupations, from artist to Overseer of the poor to physician at Whittlesea. Merivel prays to “no longer be Merivel, the Fool, but to be Merivel, the proper man.” What is his definition of a proper man? What inspires this change of heart? In what ways is the King a god-figure for Merivel? Do his ideas about the King change? There are multiple cases where Merivel compares the King to God. 60) to his impressionist style of painting. Merivel claims to be “a man of his time,” but in many ways he seems ahead of his time-from his idea of evolution (p. Why does Merivel start his story five times? What is the effect? How does this idea of the heart as unfeeling influence him? How do his thoughts about the heart change? Merivel’s discovery that the human heart itself does not have any feeling troubles him throughout the book. He is a half-educated physician and surgeon. The principal character is Robert Merivel, who tells in the first person his coming of age story from age nine. What has dawned instead is the Age of Possibility” (p. Restoration is a historical novel set in London, England during the 17th century, approximately 1660-70, during the reign of King of Britain Charles II. Merivel says that he “no longer lives in an honourable age.

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