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Antoinette
Part 2
The reader discovers a different Antoinette, as she is now married to Rochester. she is presented to be more vain and vulnerable as she tries to please Rochester.
"She spoke hesitatingly as if she expected me to refuse, so it was easy to do so."
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"You look like a king, an emperor."
Throughout this part of the novel, the relationship of Antoinette and Christophine is further emphasised.
"... who was my da, my nurse long ago"
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"this ignorant, obstinate old negro woman,"
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Antoinette is also described to love nature, through the narrative of Rochester.
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Antoinette is presented to have more control and power in Part 2 than part 1, as she has a geographical and cultural advantage over Rochester.
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"Come, I will show you the house."
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Towards the end of part 2, Antoinette could be described as brave and powerful for being able to stand against Rochester. On the other hand, it could be suggested that she is weak as Rochester ultimately has the control in the end.
Part 1
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She has a very difficult relationship with her mother, she seems to want her to lover hut, but she does not, instead there is a quasi mother figure - Christophine.
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Though she was still young, Antoinette grew up within a racist, oppressive colonialist society, and she learns and absorbs this at her young age.
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"worse still, a Martinique girl"
"Keep them then, you cheating nigger,"
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Throughout this part of the book, Antoinette is presented as in love with nature.
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"Better. Better, better than people."
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Antoinette, throughout the novella could be said to be an unreliable narrator. One reason for this may be because there is no sense of time given to the readers.
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Chapter 3
Antoinette is described as a completely different person to that presented in part 1 and 2. The reader thinks that she is the hollow shell of what she once was.
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Throughout this small part of the novella, Antoinette could be inferred to be mad and deranged.
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"When? Where? I don't remember, but we lost it."
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Throughout this part, Antoinette's inevitable death is strongly hinted at.
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Once again, Antoinette's memories and sense of time is distorted, though this has been suggested in other parts of the novella, the reader thinks it is especially emphasised in this part of the novella.
The reader must not forget that the character of Antoinette derives from the Charlotte's Bronte's Jane Eyre, this connection is critical in better understanding why Antoinette is presented the way she is.