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Penelopes new era was foreshadowed long ago.
Specifically… the bugs.
Yes,Bridgertonloves a good insect motif.
In the first episode of the series, for example, Penelope wears a butterfly accessory in her hair.
She also dons a beautiful dress with a butterfly bodice in the same episode.
But from the start of the series, its clear that the symbol really belongs to Penelope.
Indeed, butterflies start as adorable caterpillars before they take their final, dazzling forms.
But these arent separate animals theyre just different stages of the same life!
And crucially, the new era comes with wings!
She sees marriage as a way out.
Its been hard enough living under my mothers rules, but my sisters?
To live at the whim of either the most cruel or the most simple person I know…
I must take a husband before that happens, she tellsMadame Delacroix.It is time.
