Lady Audley's Subconscious Ideas

Weldon’s “Letters to Alice” serves to enrich and deepen the responder’s understanding of the particular ways in which women were compromised in “Pride and Prejudice”. Discussion of fundamental

The Victorian era set for a “women's status in a newly industrializing society” throughout Braddons novel we can see this change by which Lady Audley took initiative into herself into getting what she wanted, though she used it by the help of men. We see a different outlook of women throughout the novel. Though this aspect of women being sensitive is still shown in the novel through. She uses whatever she has and turns into the best she can be. This motto is used though various successful men, in which the typical low-income man builds himself from nothing as Mr Tallboys shows when his wealth is taken from him and he builds himself up from absolutely nothing to this man with immense wealth. Lucy as Robert knows her does the same in which she comes from a troubled childhood and transforms herself into a woman into this “high class” society who is filled with wealth and jewels. Basically shows the same problem but we see the in justness of women that she went through far more obstacles than Mr. Talboy’s for her gender enabled her for doing her as mr talboys did and be as simple as getting a job she had to make ends meet through her body. These two instances show the feminist aspect in which both a man and woman face the struggle of no wealth and building themselves

Throughout the story of "Lady Audley's Secret", Mary Elizabeth Braddon utilizes perspective in several interesting ways. The author obviously uses it as a lens to view the story through, but beyond this simple usage that any story needs, she uses it to hide information from the audience, to show the audience a partial truth with the intent of misdirecting suspicions, and to give the audience more information than the characters receive. With these three techniques, Marry Elizabeth Braddon has full control over the information that is privy to the audience. By controlling and deceiving the audience, Ms. Braddon can show plot points without the need of explicit describing something. She can use a shifting perspective to imply something just

Even though she writes this in the book due to peer pressure, she realizes that her actions are wrong and her superego makes her feel bad for behaving in this manner.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon's novel "Lady Audley's Secret" presents readers with a captivating account involving the central character, Robert Audley, and his attempt to reveal more information concerning a suspicious story that he has come across. The text is relatively similar to other modern detective stories, but one of its main characteristics is the fact that it is dominated by drama, with humor being generally absent from the novel. While this text is meant to provide readers with a clear message, it is difficult for most to simply accept Lady Audley's version of her condition and of the things that influenced her in taking on such an attitude. Thus, readers are left with the question: Was Lady Audley really suffering from a mental illness, or was she too proud to admit that she was motivated by material values.

In Lady Audley’s Secret, the main character in the story, Lady Audley, oftenly asserts and maintains her power of social status by manipulating her femininity and sexuality for personal gain. In typical traditional Victorian times, times like the seventeenth and eighteenth century, most women accepted their house duties and serving their husbands. Unlike the typical women at the time Lady Audley doesn’t accept the traditional role she is supposed to fulfill and instead, takes over in the social scene. Even though she is looked at as weak and just a typical women at the time for male pleasure, she uses that as a cover by hiding her true inner self instead of the “false aura she lets off for the world”. Being a women at the time (men wouldn't

This passage out of Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon does an excellent job of narrating the role of gender in the domestic realm-a major theme throughout the entire novel. A good deal of the Victorian gender stereotypes is emphasized. Lady Audley for example, has an outward appearance that reaches the peaks of traditional femininity that seems to make men fall at her feet. However, several of the actions she commits throughout the novel- such as attempted murder and arson- are traits that are expected out of men and have no place in the character of a classic Victorian woman. Lady Audley is secretive, cunning, and quick; this much we have already learned from Robert Audley. Her next attempt to cover up her actions (by sending

While June is listening to her mother talk about playing the piano, she wants to yell at her and express her opinion to her mother. June doesn’t do this and this expressed her sugerego knowing that it would be wrong of her to do. Another example of her expressing her superego is when she is talking to Waverley. Waverly is talking to June and says “you are not a genius like me”. June thought to herself that if she didn't feel bad for her she would have pulled out her braids and punched her in the stomach.

This essay serves to conclude that Lady Audley is not insane, but experiences temporary mental instability driven by her subconscious in order to climb the social ladder and protect her true identity. Lady Audley is a complex character that develops over the course of the book, but one must look at her upbringing and early life to understand her, especially to psychoanalyze her desire to relieve herself of poverty. Although Lady Audley seems to be the embodiment of status and poise in her marriage to Mr. Audley, her early life is much different. Lady Audley grows up poor, with little to her name because her “father was a gentleman…but poor” (Braddon 15). When looking at this from a psychoanalytical lens, Lady Audley can contribute her actions later in the novel to her upbringing because all she has ever known is poverty since her father had nothing, and he is the only one that can provide a substantial income to the family.

“Jane Eyre” is a book centred around female duality. In a time when females were still expected to fulfill their “womanly duties,” Charlotte Bronte wrote a novel dealing with a woman’s view on morality & sexuality, passion & sensibility, and conformity & insanity, among other themes. This motif of duality plays a strong part in the dynamism that makes up the book, and is not limited to the themes, but is also used to relate many of the characters to the titular Jane. In “The Mystery at Thornfield,” Valerie Beattie makes claims that the character Bertha Mason’s insanity is a representation of rebellion toward the limitations of Victorian women. Not only is

The Superego is representative of our conscience and is opposite of the id. “Superego” comes from Latin and really means “above the ego”. It is the greatest power of our mind. The superego is what most people would call the conscience or where a god would be. The Superego is a basis for how we view the world, social norms, and morals. Also, as the Superego portrays the conscience, it holds our sense of wrong and right. We have to follow the needs of the Superego or else we might feel some guilt or shame.

The novel demonstrates both popular and familiar gender roles in the 19th century. Catherine Earnshaw, breaks through the stereotypes, and has a mesh of both feminine and masculine qualities. In the Victorian Era, men are seemed as superior to women. Her gender roles are beyond the social norm, as well as her husband Edgar, who is portrayed as more feminine. Catherine holds many masculine qualities such as being adventurous, extroverted, and determined.

The woman that achieves all of this is the perfect lady. The perfect lady is representative of the times, and Jane Austen exploits this socalled perfection to show that her society was quite the opposite when it came to the lives of women. The perfect lady was a categorization. It made the women have to be a certain person. They had to conform. ?A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, all the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner or walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half deserved (35).? A woman herself, Miss Bingley, made this statement. Not only did women have no free will, but they were the ones that supported conformity. This did not apply to all women, but to the perfect ladies, one of which Miss Bingley is implied to be. Jane Austen juxtaposes the perfect lady and Miss Bingley in order to show that the perfect lady is really a shallow-minded conformist. With characters like Miss Bingley, Austen creates a resentment for the accomplished lady generalization in the reader?s head. This makes the reader dislike the highlight of English society, realize it?s sexism in restricting women?s free will, and favor characters that are vessels for feminist notions, such as

Finally, Myers states that "the superego strives for perfection and judges our actions, producing positive feelings of pride or negative feelings of guilt" (380). The superego acts as the mind's conscience. In the story, the narrator, Mama, clearly represents the superego portion of the mind structure because of her guilty conscience and her wishes to be perfect, both mentally and physically.

Assuming the Superego dominates her personality, she would strictly adhere to her parents’ wishes, as the superego is a result of the child’s internalization of her parents’ ethical values and teachings and