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WSS- Women and their treatmentRhys uses Coco as being symbolic of the oppression of women - answer “I opened my
eyes, everybody was looking up at coco on the glacis railings with his feathers alight.
He made an effort to fly but his clipped wings failed him and he fell screeching. He was
all on fire."
Image of the moths symbolize the trap faced by women and their vulnerability in love -
answer “A great many moths and beetles found their way into the room, flew into the
candles and fell dead on the tablecloth. Amelie swept them up with a crumb brush.
Uselessly. More moths and beetles came."
Women are presented as powerless when faced with the authority of the English
patriarch - answer “Bertha is not my name. You are trying to make me into someone
else, calling by another name. I know that's obeah too"
"I will tell you anything you wish to know, but in a few words because words are no use,
I know that now"
Women become a puppet which the patriarch has the power to control. Males are
possessive of women and trap them because they become jealous - answer"The doll
had a doll's voice, a breathless but curious indifferent voice."
"Vain, silly creature. Made for loving? Yes, but she'll have no lover, for I don't want her
and she'll see no other"
"I saw the hate go out of her eyes. I forced it out. And with the hate her beauty. She was
only a ghost. A ghost in the grey daylight. Nothing left but hopelessness. Say die and I
will die. Say die and watch me die."
Rochester has the power to simply make Antoinette a memory and lock her up,
because he is intimidated by her - answer"But others are waiting to take their places, it's
a long, long line. She's one of them. I too can wait- for the day when she is only a
memory to be avoided, locked away, and like all memories a legend. Or a lie..."
Rochester destroys Antoinette's past identity and reborns her into Bertha - answer"Her
torn shift was on the floor, I drew the sheet over her gently as if I covered a dead girl"
Women are unable to fight against the way that they are treated because men always
hold the power due to the label of madness - answer"I managed to hold her wrist with
one hand and the rum with the other, but when I felt her teeth in my arm I dropped the
bottle"
"she began to scream abuse at Mr Mason, calling him a fool, a cruel stupid fool...Mr
Mason, his face crimson with heat, seemed to be dragging her away and she was
holding back, struggling"
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