Trapped in the Red Room A Look into the Mind of the...

Trapped in the Red Room: A Look into the Mind of the Original Mrs. Rochester â€Å"One is very crazy when in love† (Freud). Freud made this statement nearly one hundred years ago. As one of the founders of modern psychology what would he have to say about the mad woman in the attic? Was she mad, in love, suffering from hysteria, or simply a product of nature versus nurture? Neither of which were very kind to her. In Jane Eyre we as the readers are presented with a singular perspective in nearly true to form autobiographical narrative. From Jane’s viewpoint and from a mid 19th century depiction of mental illness, the original Mrs. Rochester is hardly a person to sympathize with. Yet there is much more to this tale that is desperately begging†¦show more content†¦Despite all his faults in Jane Eyre, the one virtue he maintains in that story is sorely lacking in the Wide Sargasso Sea, his personal integrity. â€Å"Nor was I anxious to know what was happening behind the thin partition which divided us from my wife’s bedroom† (Rhys 140). â€Å"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.’ ‘Yes that didn’t just happen. I meant it’† (Rhys 154). A man who is capable of treating Antoinette in such a way, of purposefully â€Å"breaking her up† as Christophine would say, makes one wonder if he is even capable of redemption in Jane Eyre. His little encounter with Amà ©lie could be ascribed to his intoxication on the voodoo love potion, though by the time he sleeps with Amà ©lie many hours have passed including a trip to the ruined house and a nap in its eerie surroundings. Furthermore, Rochester’s actions are inherently selfish. Motivated solely by greed, he seems to be unwilling to let Antoinette have even a small portion of happiness. He had the option to leave with at least half the dowry and let her move on with her life, but chooses instead to keep both her money and mind locked away in the attic of a cold, colorless castle. Regardless of whether this depiction of our Mr. Rochester is canon or not, Jean Rhys effectively makes us despise the new Rochester all by solely changing theShow MoreRelatedRole Of Childhood In Jane Eyre1118 Words   |  5 Pageswith their mind as a blank page and that this page must be written on – that is to say the mind must be filled with knowledge, ideas and values, which, modified by experience, would equip children with what they needed to function as social beings. Another view of children within the novel held that children were born in original sin and that their souls must be cleansed of that sin, often by quite stern measures, to make them fit for salvation; this is the belief that lies behind Mr. BrocklehurstsRead MoreA Dialogue of Self and Soul11424 Words   |  46 Pagesexperiences, and her technique is immediately evident in these opening passages.2 For while the world outside Gateshead is almost unbearably wintry, the world within is claustrophobic, ï ¬ ery, like ten-year-old Jane’s own mind. Excluded from the Reed family group in the drawing room because she is not a ‘contented, happy, little child’ – excluded, that is, from ‘normal’ society – Jane takes refuge in a scarlet-draped window seat where she alternately stares out at the ‘drear November day’ and readsRead MoreManagement Course: Mba−10 General Management215330 Words   |  862 Pagesstress, and encourage organizational members to act ethically and further promote the interests of the organization.21 If bureaucracies are not managed well, however, many problems can result. Sometimes, managers allow rules and SOPs, â€Å"bureaucratic red tape,† to become so cumbersome that decision making is slow and inefï ¬ cient and organizations Jones−George: Contemporary Management, Fourth Edition I. Management 2. The Evolution of Management Thought  © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2005 Read MoreDeveloping Management Skills404131 Words   |  1617 PagesHartford Julia Britt, California State University Tim Bothell, Brigham Young University David Cherrington, Brigham Young University John Collins, Syracuse University Kerri Crowne, Temple University Todd Dewett, Wright State University Andrew J. Dubrin, Rochester Institute of Technology Steven Edelson, Temple University Norma Givens, Fort Valley State University Barbara A. Gorski, St. Thomas University David Hampton, San Diego State University Stanley Harris, Auburn University Richard E. Hunt, Rockhurst College