The Children Of The New Forest Analysis

INTRODUCTION
Marryat was a royal navy officer who helped Great Britain to extend her empire. He was a writer who lived in the Victorian era. In his The Children of the New Forest, he refers to the bloody civil war that his country had back in the seventeenth century. At the time of the civil war in Great Britain, Cromwell and his side called the Levellers who were mostly members of the middle-class revolted against King Charles I and dethroned the King of England. Marryat who was a member of the Conservative party showed sympathy for the King's side and shows the suffering and waiting that the royal supporters had during the civil wars. He also endeavoured to condemn the Parliamentary side and show the corruption in their side.
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As it is widely known, one of the causes of the English civil war was religion. England was a Christian country but the differences between the branches of Christianity and their followers led to the conflict. These conflicts had started from the time of King Henry VIII, but it had remained silenced since the moderate policies of Queen Elizabeth I. From that time on, most of the English people decided to be Protestants. When King Charles I, ascended the throne, he explicitly declared that he was a Catholic. This again led to the conflicts among a nation whose ideas were Protestant. Marryat in his novel refers novel refers to the religious points. He wants to say that unlike the claims that the Roundheads had, they were less Christ like in comparison to the King and the Cavaliers. To Marryat, the Roundhead did not even know the basic principles of Christianity and they were stuck in the seven deadly sins. For example he refers to the gluttony of the Roundhead soldiers and says,
The troopers took him at his word; they sat down to the table, andvery soon the whole contents of the kettle had disappeared. Havingsatisfied themselves, they got up, told him that his rations were sogood that they hoped to call again; and, laughing heartily, theymounted their horses, and rode away
Edward Beverley is at first a rash and unexperienced character who knows himself a royal subject to the King. Then he learns some new lessons that the King, too had some mistakes as well. His conversations with Mr Heatherstone and Patience Heatherstone's kindnessmakes him conclude that all the people on the Parliamentary side are not what he thought and he reforms his old opinions about them. His love for patience and stating his love to her is a good and typical representation of the sweetness of the unity in the country. Edward and patience are to live a good life in the future as England is hopeful to present a hopeful future to the posterity.
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Marryat in The Children of the New Forest, refers to the intervention of the foreign forces in the civil war and makes a conclusion. During the war in England the French showed that they never want the success of the English monarch. The Spanish, too did not prefer to help very much. Marryat narrates,
Time flew on, and in the year 1654 the court of France concluded analliance with Cromwell, and expelled
King Charles from the Frenchfrontiers. The war was still carried on in the Netherlands. Turennebore