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* [[Complete Monster]]: {{spoiler|Mr Elliot}}, at least by [[Jane Austen]] standards. Mrs Smith describes him as "a man without heart or conscience; a designing, wary, cold-blooded being... would be guilty of any cruelty... totally beyond the reach of any sentiment of justice or compassion... black at heart, hollow and black!" He really does come across as a bit of a sociopath in the text.ve for ''not'' yielding to persuasion at Lyme.

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: The description from Chapter 6 of the deceased Richard Musgrove:

::Which was nothing more nor less at the time than a riff on 'Dick' being a low-class nickname...and is now a good example of [[Have a Gay Old Time]].

* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: The look on Captain Wentworth's face when Anne joins him by the captain's wheel in the 1995 film version. Ciaran Hinds conveys volumes with one soft smile.

* [[Values Dissonance]]:

** Real women must yield to persuasion, regardless of the value of the counsel, decides Anne towards the end.

** Or, alternatively, female/family attachments matter before romantic ones (seeing as her boyfriend was giving her 'persuasion' of exactly the opposite nature, her dilemma wasn't whether she yielded to persuasion, but to whose.)