| Topoi | Slavery, convent, self-centredness, guidance, improvement, upbringing, advice, marriage, death, suitors, wealth, fear of marriage, friendship, love, wedding, happiness, son, separation, illness, letter of advice, grief, country life, administration of estate, support, dilemma, unrequited love, fight between mother and son, arranging a marriage, dowry, test, engagement, running away, forbidden love, the French revolution, Haitian revolution, plantation destroyed, loss of fortune, consequences for the nobility, scaffold, executions, prison, service, humiliation, surprise, change in social and economic status, reading, fish out of water, vanity, nouveau riche, revenge, gossip, missing someone, friendship, reunion, benevolence, widow, journey, persuasion |
