Jane Parker: George Boleyns wife through arranged marriage. She is forever
spying on the Boleyns and has the most obnoxious sense of sociability. She is the one who tells King about Anne and George scandal in incest.
William Stafford: An independent man who teaches Mary to think for herself.
Williams love has no other motivation than to find and to give happiness.
Henry Percy: Friend of Anne and George. He is accused and beheaded for adultery with Anne.
Jane Seymour: Young girl of the Seymour family who wins the kings fancy
after Anne cannot conceive a son.
Francis Weston—courtier with whom George Boleyn has a homosexual affair.
3.3 Plot
Plot is often defined as a narrative of motivated actions, involve some conflicts which are finally solved in the end of the story. It is based on the interactions of
causes and effects as the author put sequentially or chronologically. In the novel The Other Boleyn Girl, Sir Thomas and Lady Elizabeth Boleyn arrange for the marriage of
their sweet-natured daughter Mary to local merchant William Carey. Finding a husband for Marys elder sister Anne will be more problematic. Lady Elizabeths
brother Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, aware that King Henry VIII is tiring of his wife Katherine of Aragon who has failed to give him an heir, plans to make Anne the
kings mistress. Henry is invited to the Boleyn estate. Anne is really happy because as the
eldest sister she should marry first than her sister. Actually Anne has other willing beside love and found a husband, she just as greedy as her family in order to raise
their social classes. But Annes impetuosity causes him to be injured during a hunt.
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Mary nurses him back to health. While being taking care, King Henry and Mary have some conversation which ended with sympathy from King Henry to Marry. Smitten
with her, he orders her and her family to attend him at court, although he already knew that Marry is somebody’s wife.
Mary tries to say no for million of times but her family insist her to do what King orders. King Henry offers a high position in court for her family and also high
position for her husband. While Mary turns back and asked a support from her husband, he can not do anything because it’ a King order and the position which
offered is very demanding. Henry makes Mary his mistress, pacifying her husband and her brother George
with titles. Anne secretly marries Henry Percy, heir to the Duke of Northumberland, upsetting his fathers dynastic plans. Anne thoughts that nobody knew her marriage
then she tell it to Mary. Shockingly Marry become so angry with this secret marriage. Without Anne permission she tells everything to her father and uncle. Knowing that
her secret already revealed, Anne becomes so furious to Mary. She fell backstabbed and betrayed. The marriage is annulled and Anne banished in disgrace to France.
Before leaving to France her mother asked Anne to teach herself at the French court and come back by becoming someone new.
Mary becomes pregnant; fearful of injuring the unborn child, the king shuns her bed. Norfolk, worried that the kings affections may stray, summons Anne back
from France to beguile him. Anne keeps her promise to her mom, she come back with the whole new personality. She becomes more mature, wise and the most important
thing is mysterious and sexy. She knows how to attract men even that man is a king. That entire she got when she was punished at the French court.
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She succeeds, alienating King Henry from Mary. Even when Mary birthing a son for him, he no longer cares. Mary is so upset with Anne, but for Anne it’s all
worth it. She still can not forgive Marry for what she did about her marriage to Henry Percy. Not only Mary, Anne’s father and uncle also worried about what Anne’s did o
Mary. They are too scared that Anne will ruin their plan. Anne really knows how to handle Henry, she shrewdly withholds sex until he
will divorce Katherine and marry her. All that Anne did just make Henry crazier about her. That’s why it not a surprise when Henry agrees, prompting a schism with the
Church of Rome. Mary gives birth to a boy, but Henry drops her at Annes insistence. Now queen, Anne bears Henry a daughter, Elizabeth. Still obsessed with
fathering a legitimate male heir, Henry begins paying attention to Jane Seymour. Anne becomes pregnant again but miscarries. In desperation, she asks her brother
George to have sex with her. Georges wife lane Parker finds out about this demand and reports it to the king. George and Anne are executed. Mary takes Annes daughter
Elizabeth and brings her up far from court.
3.4 Setting
