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Resumen de El corsario de hace cien años
Para quién es
Readers who enjoy eighteenth century sea fights, daring escapes, rogues and captains, and a hero who changes through his trials. It also suits anyone who likes a love story tied to questions of honor.
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An older man writes to a lady and promises to leave the journal of his young days exactly as he wrote it, because any life told honestly holds a lesson. Frederick Marryat's The Privateer's-Man follows Alexander Elrington, who serves on the privateer Revenge off Hispaniola. Sea fights, slavery in Africa, a Jacobite escape, a death sentence in the Tower and a love that rests on conscience lie ahead. Each danger leaves a mark on him. The story begins on the deck of the Revenge.
En este resumen
- 1A first victory that haunts the victorFree
- 2A raid on land and a deadly sea fight
- 3Revenge, rescue and a growing conscience
- 4Captive in Africa and the bond with Whyna
- 5Plotters, privateers and a secret mission
- 6A duel at sea and a clever punishment
- 7Prison, conscience and a changed heart
- 8Love, a quarrel and a cause won
- 9Betrayal, slavery and the road home
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A first victory that haunts the victor
The Revenge, a privateer with fourteen guns under Captain Weatherall, sights a large French ship at daybreak. She carries twenty-four guns, a rich planter's fortune, his wife and his seventeen-year-old son. The planter fights like a lion and kills several English sailors with his own hand.
The English board twice. Weatherall leads the second attack and wins the deck. The planter still stands in the cabin doorway and refuses quarter. The narrator fires a pistol to save his lieutenant, and the planter dies. His wife collapses in a faint on his body.
The narrator is shaken. He asks whether slaughter made lawful by the quarrels of kings can be right. Reason, religion and humanity say no. Yet work on deck soon crowds out his doubts. The widow never forgets him, and she hates him whenever she sees him.
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Questions about El corsario de hace cien años
What is The Privateer's-Man about?
It follows a young man who leaves home, joins privateers and is later captured in Africa, imprisoned in the Tower, sent to Brazilian diamond mines and stranded in Virginia. He slowly decides that profit by plunder is wrong.
Who is the narrator of The Privateer's-Man?
The narrator first uses the name Alexander Elrington and later Musgrave. He tells his story in a long letter to a lady, and the true reason for his assumed name comes out near the end.
Is The Privateer's-Man a true story?
It is a novel by Frederick Marryat, set around the 1745 Jacobite rising. It uses real events such as Culloden.
Who is Whyna in the book?
Whyna is the youngest wife and favorite of an old African king. She takes the narrator as her slave, shows him kindness, and teaches him her language while he is a captive.
What is the main message of The Privateer's-Man?
The book shows that a person can hold to conscience even when it costs wealth and safety. Its hero learns that plunder brings suffering and that faith and honor give lasting strength.