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Ninetta is Mr. Crummles and Mrs. Crummles’s daughter. Mr. Crummles is convinced that she is a talented actor and a child prodigy. He often calls her the “infant phenomenon.” Other actors, including Mr. Folair, think that Mr. Crummles greatly overestimates his daughter’s talents. Mr. Folair thinks she only gets cast in plays because her father manages the theater troupe.
Ninetta Quotes in Nicholas Nickleby
The Nicholas Nickleby quotes below are all either spoken by Ninetta or refer to Ninetta. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 24
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'I hope you have preserved the unities, sir?' said Mr. Curdle […]
'Might I ask you,' said Nicholas, hesitating between the respect he ought to assume, and his love of the whimsical, 'might I ask you what the unities are?'
Mr. Curdle coughed and considered. 'The unities, sir,' he said, 'are a completeness—a kind of universal dovetailedness with regard to place and time—a sort of a general oneness, if I may be allowed to use so strong an expression. I take those to be the dramatic unities, so far as I have been enabled to bestow attention upon them, and I have read much upon the subject, and thought much. I find, running through the performances of this child,' said Mr. Curdle, turning to the phenomenon, 'a unity of feeling, a breadth, a light and shade, a warmth of colouring, a tone, a harmony, a glow, an artistical development of original conceptions, which I look for, in vain, among older performers.’
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Ninetta Quotes in Nicholas Nickleby
The Nicholas Nickleby quotes below are all either spoken by Ninetta or refer to Ninetta. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 24
Quotes
'I hope you have preserved the unities, sir?' said Mr. Curdle […]
'Might I ask you,' said Nicholas, hesitating between the respect he ought to assume, and his love of the whimsical, 'might I ask you what the unities are?'
Mr. Curdle coughed and considered. 'The unities, sir,' he said, 'are a completeness—a kind of universal dovetailedness with regard to place and time—a sort of a general oneness, if I may be allowed to use so strong an expression. I take those to be the dramatic unities, so far as I have been enabled to bestow attention upon them, and I have read much upon the subject, and thought much. I find, running through the performances of this child,' said Mr. Curdle, turning to the phenomenon, 'a unity of feeling, a breadth, a light and shade, a warmth of colouring, a tone, a harmony, a glow, an artistical development of original conceptions, which I look for, in vain, among older performers.’
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