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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 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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Ninetta Character Timeline in Nicholas Nickleby
The timeline below shows where the character Ninetta appears in Nicholas Nickleby. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 23
...When they are finished, Mr. Crummles introduces them to Nicholas. One is Mr. Crummles’s daughter, Ninetta. The other person is Mr. Folair. Ninetta is only 10 years old, but Mr. Crummles...
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...put on and the roles Nicholas will play. He suggests that Nicholas might act opposite Ninetta, but Nicholas graciously declines the suggestion by saying he would be no match for her....
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Chapter 24
...translating. Mr. Folair implores Nicholas to give him a part where he’s not acting with Ninetta and to write a dance scene into the play. He then explains what the scene...
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Chapter 30
...the cast. Mr. Crummles is sure that the manager is there to see his daughter, Ninetta. Every actor directs his or her performance to the London manager that night, but the...
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