Fingersmith - Victorian era in the 19th century

Hailee 2022-12-02 00:27:58

Views of the first episode: The emotional progress of the two heroines at the beginning was a bit too fast, and the sudden transition from a stern uncle to a harmonious relationship between master and servant made me even a little doubt if I missed a paragraph. The master and servant sleep in the same bed every day. The picture is so beautiful that I almost kiss it. I haven't found out that this is love. It is probably a true portrayal of the lady in the closed manor in that era. Episode 2: The reversal is a wonderful episode. Since the gentleman and Maud sent Su to the lunatic asylum, they turned into Maud's self-narration, and went through the previous plot again, and at the same time made people sigh at the delicacy of the British drama. Finally, the gentleman took Maud to the den of thieves, and Mrs. Saxby revealed the truth about when Marianne came. Susan was her child who was left behind, and Maud was picked up by her uncle as a new-born street child. The game is in the middle of the game, the game is in the game, as well as the emotional fetters between Su and Mode and the truth of the two's life experience, it is worth chewing over and over again. Su grew up in the den of thieves, raised by Mrs. Saxby, the boss of the den of thieves who had adopted many babies. There was a gallows outside her window. Su, who grew up watching the gallows, made a living by stealing since she was a child.

Maud's mother was put in a lunatic asylum, and died there after giving birth to Maud, who grew up in the lunatic asylum and was picked up by her stern uncle at the age of eleven or twelve. The uncle took her to Blair Manor to make her his secretary, and asked her to transcribe pornographic books and even molest her, which made Maud turn a blind eye to sex and appear indifferent.

One day, the "gentleman" in the den of thieves found out that Maud would have a fortune of tens of thousands of pounds after his marriage. He was handsome and good at drawing, so he decided to approach Maud in the name of helping Uncle Maud draw illustrations in books, and he met with him. She cheated on the marriage, and after getting married, she tried to send Maud into a lunatic asylum and swallowed the property by herself. But he is not enough alone, so he plans to Su disguised as a maid, also infiltrate the Blair Manor, have a good relationship with Maud, and persuade Maud to marry after the gentleman gets close to Maud, and the property will also be distributed to Su.

Sue has been unable to repay Mrs. Saxby's upbringing, and decided to join the program and use the money she earned to repay Mrs. Saxby. Everything went smoothly as planned. Su entered the Blair Manor and became Maud's maid. The gentleman communicated with Maud through Uncle Maud to express his love. Su found that Maud often had nightmares every night, needed to take medicine in the morning, and needed to accompany him every night. But Sue couldn't bear to watch Maud be deceived step by step until she entered the lunatic asylum, but in order to repay Mrs. Saxby and not be laughed at by the den of thieves, she continued to act and persuaded Maud to elope with the gentleman.

In the evening, Maud asked Sue what she was going to do on their wedding night, Sue explained to Maud, and pretended to be a gentleman, kissed Maud, and went on a skin-to-skin relationship. That night, the gentleman arrived on time, and Maud and Sue fled with him, and the gentleman and Maud were married in the country. Maud, who had no love with the gentleman, soon became unhappy, and the gentleman promised her to go to a big house, and Su knew that day was coming. Sure enough, the doctor came and asked Su about Maud's condition, Su continued to act and begged the doctors to take care of Maud.

On that day, the three came to the insane asylum and wanted to lock up the gentleman's wife, but the nurses did not pull Mode away, but dragged Su. The gentleman and Mode insisted that Su was the gentleman's wife. Su realizes that she has been deceived by the two of them.

The story turns into Maud's self-reported perspective, and it all starts from that day. Maud grew up in a madhouse, and was later borrowed by his stern uncle to invest in his pornographic career, which made her seem innocent and innocent, but in reality she was not surprised. The gentleman got close to Maud according to the original plan and wanted to cheat on her marriage, but found that Maud grew up reading pornographic books, and his performance Maud was not moved at all. He immediately changed his strategy, abandoned Su, revealed his original plan, and found the weakness of Maude's lack of freedom. He promised to bring Maud freedom. On the surface, the two would not let Su see any flaws, but in fact they planned to get married in a fake, and then put Su in a lunatic asylum. The two parted ways after receiving the inheritance.

The plan went well, Su Wei found nothing, but she and Maud wanted to tell each other what they had done countless times, but both for the kindness that Mrs. Saxby raised and for the freedom that they had never had in their lives. with their own plans. That day, the doctor came, and the gentleman told them that Su was the gentleman's wife. All Su's statements became mental problems. Maud also cooperated with the acting, and she became the gentleman's wife's servant.

Maud followed the gentleman to the den of thieves and found that she had been deceived. She escaped once and had to go back in the end. Meanwhile, Su was tortured in the lunatic asylum, and finally fell silent, waiting for a chance to escape. Mrs. Saxby reassured Maud and told her a shocking secret. It turned out that on that day twenty years ago, Marianne of Blair Manor sought help from Mrs. Saxby, who was about to be pregnant. Mrs Saxby delivered the child, and Marianne named the child Sue. Soon, her father and brother came after her to ask for a child, and Mrs. Saxby called her child born on the same day, and that was Maud.

Mrs Saxby was the real mastermind, and she gave up her children from the start, leaving the Duke's children in order to one day be able to identify herself and profit from it. Later, her own child, Maud, was taken back to the manor, and she asked Sue, who she raised, to cheat Maud's marriage property. Knowing that the gentleman changed his plan, he was ready to take back his daughter, Maud, and get her property, they live happily together.

Sue escaped through Charlie, who had seen the gentleman's boots, and returned to the den of thieves to confront Maud. In the end, the gentleman who was obsessed with taking money and didn't know the inside story was killed by Maud in the chaos. Mrs. Saxby finally found her conscience and admitted that she had killed people and accepted the hanging. She wants to save Su and Maud, one is Maud who she had the heart to send back to the dark Blair Manor, and the other is Su who she once gave up. In prison, she confessed to Su, letting a famous family like her grow up in a den of thieves and become a pickpocket, and at the same time not let Maud tell Su her real life experience.

Mrs Saxby was hanged on the gallows outside the window of the Den of Thieves, and Sue learned her story as she dealt with her estate. Later, when Uncle Maud dies, Su returns to Blair Manor and meets Maud, who writes erotic novels for a living.

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Fingersmith quotes

  • Maud Lilly: Please don't touch me, stifle me, smother me... pretend to love me.

    Mrs. Sucksby: Pretend?

  • Richard 'Gentleman' Rivers: [to Maud] You think life is hard with money? You should try it without!