Chapter 11
Silver's apple-barrel speech defining the pirate code and the ironic self-styling 'gentlemen of fortune' — a sharp parody of bourgeois respectability.
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From Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The novel maps a class system onto the seas: gentlemen-adventurers vs. common sailors vs. pirates who ironically style themselves 'gentlemen of fortune.'
Chapter 9
Smollett's clash with Trelawney over the indiscreet handling of the voyage exposes the limits of gentlemanly competence.
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