cunning, that's all'(WSS,11), only marks out what is not there and makes plain the impossibility of any appeal to the past against an equally feared future. It is a past only existing in the parenthesis; 'My father, visitors, horses, feeling safe in bed-all belonged to the past'(WSS,5).
The novel's figure for its own narrative is Antionette's dream, with its twice delayed near the conclusion and its dreaded but inevitable forward propulsion. The dream in a sense suggests a subsuming of the Rochester's narrative under Antionette's, her narrative enunciating a trajectory in the dreams that will be the task of the narrative to fulfill. A notable feature of Rochester's narrative, especially in contradistinction to Antionette's, however, is precisely …show more content…
If Antionette's recial imagination is metaphoric, based upon the wished for substitution of one term for another. Rochester 's psyche keeps constantly expressing itself as a perception of contamination from contiguity, one racial term slipping or leaking into another through sheer proximity, obsessively perceived as …show more content…
She is the first character to speak from Antionette's point of view and Christophine's voice is used to explain the behaviour of the white people.' The Jamaican ladies had never approved of my mother'(WSS,5). Antionette's mother, Annette the white lady, develops only her feminism qualities in spite of their distressing situation. These qualities such as beauty, tenderness trust and obedience , make it impossible for her to change actively their situation. These situations make her lethargic and unable to take care of the household and to care for her daughter. The feminine aspect of Annette shows her liking for her survival in the way she does all the work for her husband rather than the love for her
The novel's figure for its own narrative is Antionette's dream, with its twice delayed near the conclusion and its dreaded but inevitable forward propulsion. The dream in a sense suggests a subsuming of the Rochester's narrative under Antionette's, her narrative enunciating a trajectory in the dreams that will be the task of the narrative to fulfill. A notable feature of Rochester's narrative, especially in contradistinction to Antionette's, however, is precisely …show more content…
If Antionette's recial imagination is metaphoric, based upon the wished for substitution of one term for another. Rochester 's psyche keeps constantly expressing itself as a perception of contamination from contiguity, one racial term slipping or leaking into another through sheer proximity, obsessively perceived as …show more content…
She is the first character to speak from Antionette's point of view and Christophine's voice is used to explain the behaviour of the white people.' The Jamaican ladies had never approved of my mother'(WSS,5). Antionette's mother, Annette the white lady, develops only her feminism qualities in spite of their distressing situation. These qualities such as beauty, tenderness trust and obedience , make it impossible for her to change actively their situation. These situations make her lethargic and unable to take care of the household and to care for her daughter. The feminine aspect of Annette shows her liking for her survival in the way she does all the work for her husband rather than the love for her