Paradigm shifting to the head!

I think that Radcliff really does a great job of not going by the status quo. She draws her readers in thinking that they are getting the traditional story and then slaps them upside the head with paradigm shifting literature. It really is a great tactic on her part for the time period that she is living in. If you take into account the fact that women weren't viewed as equals quite yet it's easy to see why she originally published this under a pseudonym and started everything off the way that she did. She wants her readers to start off in their comfort zone. It is a great tactic to draw your reader in before challenging tradition views of society. It isn't until part 3 that she even starts challenging the French government. If someone starts challenging traditional thought process too soon, then people will just put down the book. However, if you draw the reader in, get them attached to the characters, and then start changing the way that they think towards the end it's like shooting fish in a barrel. The reader is already too far down the metaphorical rabbit hole to put the book down and the author gets her point across while the reader is none the wiser.