Analyse Villette -Brontë chapitre 12
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Lucy has a better opinion of Dr John because she compares him to a leopard whereas she
compares Mme Beck with a cat, which is smaller and less impressive.
Detailed notes on how the central themes of the novel are developed in this chapter :
Religion is once more a central theme in this chapter, Lucy is always talking about the
Catholics praying (p.107 and 109) and also she is talking about Sisera and Heber, people from
the Bible (p.
110).
We learn in this chapter that “all the pupils….from childhood” (p.111).
Lucy is now not alone (compared to chapter V), she is with Mme Beck, the children, and Dr.
John.
For the first time in part I, Lucy finds something about love, a billet-doux, but it’s not
for her, in a way, it’s a bit unlucky for her to find a love letter not addressed to her.
At the end
of the chapter, we can also see a real friendship between Lucy and Mme Beck “Bon soir, ma
bonne amie;….night” (p.115).
Analysis : Extract: end of page 110 to middle of page 111 .
Lucy says “ A thing I had heard of”, talking about billets-doux and adds ironically “ I had not
the honour of seeing or handling” p111.
It shows that she doesn’t really know something at
the game of love = she’s candid and she has never got courted herself .
She says ironically that” suitor and admirer are not conceived” and she says th at she’s not
dreaming about it at all = she’s not interested in those kind of things.
It might be an indirect criticism from charlotte Brontë’s , as if things of love are silly.
Moreover, she deffers herself from the other when she says “all the teachers have dreams of
some lover” p111 and “all the pupils knew of some prospective of bridegroom” = repetition
of all = she excludes herself from the “mob”, the reader can guess she likes to differ from her
fellows.
She is curious to know something about this billet-doux = she wants to find the secret “ my
speculation”, “to intrude”
She qualifies Dr John with “the young doctor’s blue eyes” , she reduces him to a role of
pretty-boy, maybe because she’s hurted that he courts all the girls and women except her =
She is still isolated from the others..
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