Search results
English architect
- John Thorpe or Thorp (c.1565–1655?; fl.1570–1618) was an English architect.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thorpe
People also ask
Who is John Thorpe?
Who are James Morland & John Thorpe?
Why does John Thorpe want to marry Catherine?
What was Thorpe's contribution to architecture?
A college friend of James Morland and brother to Isabella Thorpe, John Thorpe is an unscrupulous, rude braggart. He is a boring conversationalist who is only interested in horses, carriages, money and drinking, and lies whenever he thinks it will impress others or force them to give way to his will.
Character Analysis. If John Thorpe is loud, rude, a bit dimwitted, blustering, and really overbearing – hilariously so, really. He's always yelling and swearing. He's even rude to his mother. He's also the world's worst conversationalist – all he talks about are horses and carriages.
Who is John Thorpe? ITV/Rex Features. John is the brother of Isabella and one of the three sons of Mrs Thorpe. He is studying at Oxford, where he becomes friends with Catherine's brother James. John attempts to court Catherine with an eye on what he believes to be her considerable wealth.
Little is known of his life, and his work is dubiously inferred, rather than accurately known, from a folio of drawings in the Sir John Soane's Museum, to which Horace Walpole called attention, in 1780, in his Anecdotes of Painting; but how far these were his own is uncertain. [1]
- Basic Information
- Family Information
- Descriptions
- What to Call Him
Age:He is described as being young, Primary Residence: His family is from Putney, but he is currently a student at Oxford.
Parents: John’s mother is the widowed Mrs. Thorpe. Other Family: John has two brothers and three sisters, and it appears that he is the eldest in the family based on the fact that when his mother was telling Mrs. Allen about her sons, he was listed first.
Physical Characteristics: John Thorpe is a “stout young man of middling height … with a plain face and ungraceful form[.]” Personality Characteristics: John is a brash and arrogant young man who is given to boasting, exaggeration, and spite. He is described as being “easy where he ought to be civil, and impudent where he might be allowed to be easy...
John – His mother and sisters.Thorpe – Male friends such as James MorlandMr. Thorpe – Others, including Catherine Morland.John Thorpe provides an excellent example of how Austen creates character through metonymic associations, that is, he may be a relatively flat character in many ways, but he still comes to life for the reader through the things that are repeatedly associated with him, such as horses, carriages and drink. In this respect, compare him with some ...
Without Isabella to spend her time with and saddled with the unpleasant John Thorpe, Catherine decides to become friends with Eleanor Tilney, Henry's sister. Eleanor quickly sees that Catherine has feelings for Henry, but does not say anything.
