![]() ![]() ![]() That’s true of our spirits as well as our bodies. So Mark Tapley, the man who doesn’t seek happiness and ease but a challenging situation, suspects that it’s in facing challenges that we grow stronger. In America, when Martin recruited him as a partner (i.e., to help fund their Eden disaster), Mark rejected the name “Chuzzlewit and Tapley” for their putative architectural firm, insisting it be called “Chuzzlewit and Co.” He’d always wanted to meet a “Co” but he “little thought be one.” When Mark surprises Mrs Lupin on his return, he asks her how she would feel about changing her name to “Co.” He sees a seriously humbled Martin reunited with his grandfather and fiancée before heading for the B.D. ![]() They’re greeted at arrival by a morose old man who tells them not to worry about their luggage - the fever is so bad that the few survivors are too frail to bury their own dead, let alone steal.īarely surviving the fever himself, Mark decides that there might be some credit in being jolly in sitting beside the fire at the Blue Dragon with Mrs Lupin after all. MARK TAPLY FULLThey find America full of conmen and pestilence. Mark, ever jolly, brings cheer and kindness wherever he goes, nursing the sick on the wretched voyage across the Atlantic and bolstering Martin’s resolve when they learn that Eden, the glorious new city in which they had invested all their money, is in fact a few cabins in a stinking swamp. Martin thinks it’s a place to make his fortune so he can marry Mary Graham. Together, Martin and Mark set off for America. Arrogant, flat broke and disowned by his grandfather for falling in love with his grandfather’s ward without permission. Then the perfect challenge arises - young Martin Chuzzlewit. He applies to become a grave digger but they don’t need him. London and New York: Frederick Warne.ONE of my favourite fictional characters is Mark Tapley from Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit.Ī robust, good-humoured fellow, Mark has a good position as ostler at the Blue Dragon Inn and has won the affection of the landlady, the widow Mrs Lupin.īut “there’s no credit in being jolly,” as Mark often says, in staying at a comfortable place like the Blue Dragon, so he sets off to find somewhere gloomy, dismal and challenging to prove that he can “come out strong under circumstances”. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. Mark gets engaged to Mrs Lupin, takes over the Blue Dragon Inn and renames it the Jolly Tapley. thy've such a passion for Liberty, that they can't help taking liberties with her!"Īfter Mark and Martin are swindled into buying a marsh along the Mississippi, they return home to England. And now he's a-saving up to treat himself before he dies, to one small purchase.only his own daughter, that's all!.in this part of the globe. In years and years he saved up a little money, and bought his freedom, which he got pretty cheaply at last, on account of his strength nearly gone, and he being ill. "Why, when that man was young - don't look at him while I'm a-telling it - he was shot in the leg gashed in the arm scored in his live arm, like a crimped fish. One of the finest extracts of the novel is where Mark relates the life story of Cicero, an African-American freed slave whom he has met: Jefferson Brick) and businessmen, and especially the slave trade, which Dickens wholeheartedly hated. When Chuzzlewitt arrives in London to emigrate to The United States, he meets Mark, who offers himself to be Martin's travelling companion and servant.ĭickens used Mark and Martin's short stay in America as a criticism of the hypocrisy of American politicians (i.e. Mark's catchphrase is that "There's no credit in being jolly" under benign circumstances and so he constantly urges himself to find a more challenging set of circumstances in order to test his good spirits. He departs the pub and goes to London early on in the novel. When he first appears, he is an ostler for the Blue Dragon Inn in Salisbury, and is in love with the widowed landlady Mrs Lupin. Mark Tapley is a fictional character in Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit. Please introduce links to this page from related articles suggestions may be available. This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. ![]()
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