"he is silent as a Turk and a kind of ignorant carelessness attends him." (6)
Turkey was in the center of the Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, which is known by the British for it's autocracy and corruption. England was prejudice against the Turkish and Mary Shelley is showing this in this quote. This feeling shows up later in the novel where Safie's Turkish father is selfish and ungrateful.
~`Barak, Sansal. "The Ottomans and Their Dynasty" All About Turkey. August 27, 2008. <http://www.allaboutturkey.com/>
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