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Walter Allen
"Mr Rochester is almost as shadowy as Bertha Mason"
Jean Rhys
Wanted to portray both Rochester and Antoinette as complex
A novel is "an impression, not an argument"
A novel is "an impression, not an argument"
Michael Thorpe
Part 3 attempts to humanise Bertha
Rhys tries to win the reader's understanding and compassion for those whose mental state is often... Just the wrong side of a thin dividing line from "normality"
Links with Jane Eyre to underline their "common plight as women"
Rhys tries to win the reader's understanding and compassion for those whose mental state is often... Just the wrong side of a thin dividing line from "normality"
Links with Jane Eyre to underline their "common plight as women"
Edward Said
Would argue Rochester adopts Orientalism to legitimise his dominance - especially as Antoinette's sympathetic narrative comes first - shows history and depict of foreign cultures from British perspective is flawed and shouldn't dominate discourse
Mona Fayad
Throughout history women deemed as witches to justify their power over men and maintain the idea that a 'normal' women were submissive
readers can witness the extreme influence social labels have on Antoinette from the very first words of her narrative
readers can witness the extreme influence social labels have on Antoinette from the very first words of her narrative
Theresa O'Conner
It is only through women who aren't attached to men like Christopine that Antoinette is provided with "a positive sense of self"
Emery
"a reconceptualization of the very concept of identity"
Sandra Drake
Sandra Drake mentions that "Antoinette wants to use the spell to complete her assimilation to England and to whiteness" (198), thereby at last earning a definite identity for herself. When the potion ultimately fails to produce the desired effects, Antoinette is forced to recognize her non-whiteness as well as her non-blackness because as Christophine states to Rochester, "She is not béké like you, but she is béké, and not like us either" (93).
Gilbert and Gubar
In the words of Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, the appearance of the mirror represents the "voice" of male consent or the standard image of women that men, the dominant social group, try to impose upon them
Drake
"her ultimate regaining of an identity stolen by cultural imperialism