Rochester Locking Antoinette In Attic

In this context rhys is illustrating rochester s desire to gain control of antoinette s assets and then minimalize her until she is branded mad so he can be rid of her which he succeeds in doing in jane eyre by locking her in the attic.

Rochester locking antoinette in attic.

He gets antoinette declared mad and locks her up in his attic. As they travel from massacre to the honeymoon they are caught in a downpour driving rochester antoinette and a half caste servant named amelie to take shelter under a mango tree. Antoinette cosway in wide sargasso sea. One huge hurdle that rochester can t seem to overcome is his englishness.

Rochester s father and brother have since died leaving him to inherit the family s fortune. The book purports to tell antoinette s side of the story as well as rochester s and to account for how she ended up alone and raving in the attic of thornfield hall. Rochester and antoinette s marriage takes place and it is where both characters describe their feelings for each other. It is in this part of the novel that mr.

Adjarian suggests rochester s desire to possess antoinette and prove her insane derives from his exclusion from the secrets of the island that is part of the reason behind rochester s intense wish to possess antoinette even after he has. Antoinette recognizes a black woman named caroline standing outside a hut on the far side of the road. Even in death bertha is seeking only emancipation that has been snatched away from her by locking her up in the attic. In a move that symbolizes the influence of white english men over the caribbean people rochester takes ultimate control of antoinette by locking her in attic for the rest of her life.

According to the book antoinette s insanity and drunkenness are the result of rochester s misguided belief that madness is in her blood and that she was part of the scheme to have him married. A possible explanation for the scene where bertha injures her brother when he comes to see her at mr. He sleeps with the maid on his honeymoon with his wife in the next room. So how does a man who doesn t seem particularly evil end up living the rough equivalent of five straight seasons of days of our lives.

When she begins to lose herself more rochester brings antoinette to his manor in england to stay in the attic. At rochester s home in england the servant grace poole watches over antoinette in the attic. He sees antoinette as a source of madness and hopes that by locking her away in england he will be able to put her aside and forget about her. The people who stay in rochester s abode are frightened by a ghost that haunts the manor.

Rochester s could be that it was mason who had tricked her into marrying rochester. Eff another servant pay grace poole double her wages if she promises not to speak about antoinette to the others in the household. The second part is narrated by antoinette and mr.