{"id":287,"date":"2017-04-02T00:57:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T00:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/?p=287"},"modified":"2020-08-31T20:37:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T20:37:58","slug":"disguises-and-trickery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/2017\/04\/02\/disguises-and-trickery\/","title":{"rendered":"Disguises and Trickery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c\u2018There, then, – Off, ye lendings!\u2019 And Mr. Rochester stepped out of his disguise\u2026\u2026 In short, I believe you have been trying to draw me out- or in; you have been talking nonsense to make me talk nonsense” (Bronte, 204).\u00a0<\/span>In this quotation, Jane has figured out that the gypsy is really Rochester disguising himself to find out information that benefitted him. This is shown through the phrase \u201ctrying to draw me [Jane] out.\u201d This proves that Rochester was trying to get something out of Jane by using a disguise as a type of trickery. Rochester used his disguise which changed his gender and class rank, to have an advantage over Jane. This shows that Rochester does not fully value Jane because he was unable to confront her without trying to manipulate her.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jane Eyre <\/em>and\u00a0The Moonstone<\/em> are both connected through their usage of disguises because they are both used to deceive women. The following quote is from The Moonstone\u00a0<\/em>and contains evidence of the jugglers using disguises.\u00a0\u201cThere is a mystery about their conduct that I can\u2019t explain. They have doubly sacrificed their caste- first, in crossing the sea; secondly, in disguising themselves as jugglers\u2026…There must be some very serious motive at the bottom of it, and some justification of no ordinary kind to plead for them, in recovery of their caste, when they return to their own country.” (Collins, 83).<\/span><\/p>\n

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In this quote, Mr. Murthwaite could tell that the jugglers were not actually jugglers. He recognized that they were using class to disguise who they were. Mr. Murthwaite could tell that the mission of the Brahmin\u2019s was important since it was not acceptable for the upper class to dress like the lower class. Once again, we see men using class and disguises as a type of trickery and manipulation.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nThrough the lens of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Jane Eyre, The Moonstone\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/i>is very similar because it has men (jugglers) dressing up as something else to manipulate a woman. To be more explicit, the men of Indian descent dressed up as jugglers to trick Rachel to get the moonstone which was around her neck. The idea of a man manipulating a woman is important because it shows the lack of respect that a man has for a woman. The men are degrading the women by going out of their way to be deceitful for their own personal benefit. There are not any positive reasons for the trickery other than bettering themselves. This correlates with the idea that the men do not believe that women are as intellectual them. If Rochester and the Indians really saw women as their equal,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/i>then their first attempt to receive the information they wanted would have been to be confront the women directly. Neither book illustrates a man confronting his feelings or real intentions for a woman.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Jane Eyre<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>The Moonstone<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>show that their a pattern of men tricking women to get what they want. These novels also show that men do not consider women to be their equal which play a big role in the gender differences throughout each of the novels.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201c\u2018There, then, – Off, ye lendings!\u2019 And Mr. Rochester stepped out of his disguise\u2026\u2026 In short, I believe you have been trying to draw me out- or in; you have been talking nonsense to make me talk nonsense” (Bronte, 204).\u00a0In this quotation, Jane has figured out that the gypsy is really Rochester disguising himself to … Continue reading Disguises and Trickery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138876,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2017","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}