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WSS Quotes ExamHer face blank, no expression at all - answer Rochester towards end of part 2 - reduced
her to a zombi
So I shall never understand why, suddenly, bewilderingly, I was certain that everything I
had imagined to be the truth was false. False. Only the magic and the dreams are true -
all the rests a lie. Let it go. Here is the secret. Here. - answer Rochester at end of part 2
- idea of secret he doesn't know about throughout the book; but we as readers do
because we know what happens in Jane Eyre - his consciousness is repressing what
he knows but does not want, as a Victorian materialist, to acknowledge (Francis
Wyndham)
There is always the other side, always - answer Antoinette to Rochester about Daniel
Cosway - Rhys is writing about the other side - the part people don't want to
acknowledge - the non-English perspective
1) give my love to your wife - my sister ... you are not the first to kiss her pretty face
(Cosway to Rochester after he comes to meet him)
2) give my sister your wife a kiss from me. Love her as I did - oh yes I did (what
Rochester rewrites in his thoughts later in the novel during obeah) - answer Rochester
manipulates what Cosway has said in his mind to make worse what he has said. He
already is filled with jealousy and rage because Antoinette may have had a lover before
him (Sandi) but Rochester makes it worse by implying incest. Thereby perhaps
justifying his cruelty towards Antoinette - if she had been involved in this sort of
disgusting act he has created perhaps she deserves punishment
Miss Antoinette a white girl with a lot of money, she won't marry with a coloured man
even though he don't look like a coloured man - answerAmelie implies to Rochester that
Antoinette had a sexual encounter before their marriage (Sandi). She then blurs this
and unnerves him by affecting to deny it vigorously. She touches on her and his most
xenophobic fears, using marry as a polite euphemism for a sexual encounter
Read and write I don't know, other things I know - answerChristophine to Rochester -
the culture of most of the islands inhabitants is oral rather than literate - "other things"
perhaps hinting at obeah - West Indian culture is different to English culture and merit is
not based on the same thing - reading and writing is very much a western value;
christophine does not conform to this and feels no embarrassment in that
Bertha is not my name. You are trying to make me into someone else, calling me by
another name. I know, that's obeah too. - answerThough Antoinette causes Rochester
to drink the potion and become erotically charged (leading to abusive sex and
Antoinette waking up bruised and bleeding) by using Christophines powers, She
, actually causes Rochester of also using obeah powers against her, trying to make her
into someone she is not
Like a doll. Even when she threatened me with the bottle she had a marionette quality -
answerRochester - reduced Antoinette to a doll - links to obeah, control, superiority
(Marionette, Antoinette, Marionetta, Antoinetta) - Rochesters thoughts
All you want is to break her up. ... she tell me in the middle of all this you start calling
her names. Marionette. ... that word mean doll, eh? - answerThe voice of his surpressed
wishes which is heard when he speaks to Christophine seems to be casting an
incantatory spell (Rochester using obeah against Antoinette - interesting that in Jane
Eyre she is referred to as Bertha Antoinetta Mason). Christophine realises what he his
doing and accuses him of spirit theft - Francis Wyndham's view
Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left
me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it -
answerRochester at the end of part 2, has succeeded at performing colonial obeah on
Antoinette, she has been driven mad, her sprint stolen. He hates the place, he hates
her. But also has the realisation that he in a way has been destroyed, he will never
recover from this, this will haunt him all his life - as it does in Jane Eyre.
"You bring that worthless girl to play with next door and you talk and laugh and love so
that she hear everything. You meant her to hear" - Christophine
Yes, that didn't just happen, I meant it - Rochester (internal voice of narrator) -
answerHe acknowledges silently that he meant Antoinette to suffer when he slept with
Amelie, and he was aware of her agony
(Antoinette had told Rochester that her mother died when she was a child - Rochester
ask her why she lied) she responds "she did die when I was a child. There are always
two deaths, the real one and the one people know about - answerRochester thinks she
is referring to "little deaths" (orgasm) but she is referring to the death of a soul, through
emotional turmoil and abuse, turning into a zombi, Antoinette also is a ghost in her
lifetime, she refers to herself as a "ghost" when she sees herself in the mirror later at
Thronfield, she is known as a ghost that haunts Thornfield by most of the inhabitants in
Jane Eyre
I did not love her. I was thirsty for her, but that is not love. I felt very little tenderness for
her, she was a stranger to me, a stranger who did not think or feel as I did. -
answerRochester about Antoinette - he knows desire is not love and that he doesn't
love her. Particularly tragic as Antoinette completely gives herself up for him sexually
throughout the novel, she even thinks she is happy at the beginning, just before this she
says "if I could die. Now, when I am happy" he pretends to love her and he takes sexual
advantage of her but he does not love her. Perhaps this makes the betrayal of sleeping
with Amelie all the worse because sex is all the love Antoinette has known and now he's
given that to her
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