{"id":143,"date":"2016-02-12T08:12:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T08:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=143"},"modified":"2016-02-12T08:14:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T08:14:56","slug":"lady-audleys-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2016\/02\/12\/lady-audleys-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Audley&#8217;s Mask&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhat does it mean?\u201d he thought. \u201cShe is altogether a different being to the wretched, helpless creature who dropped her mask for a moment, and looked at me with her own pitiful face, in the little room at Mount Stanning, four hours ago. What has happened to cause the change?\u201d (148)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In this passage Mr. Audley had just run into Lady Audley at the train station in London. Lady Audley greets him and seems to be in a normal state of mind, compared to the fearful women he had seen just hours before. As Robert helps Lady Audley into the train, his thoughts begin to question her change in behavior. The word choice here is very important in terms of her emotional behavior\u00a0as it reveals that Lady Audley can go back and forth between extreme states of being a \u201cwretched, helpless creature\u201d and \u201cpitiful\u201d to having a completely normal conversation with Robert. The readers saw Lady Audley almost at her breaking point ,\u00a0but only hours later the readers are told she is complete fine. This leads to questions about her sanity and her past life, as Braddon also uses the word \u201cmask\u201d to describe the way she normally acts and how she had dropped her mask only for a short while. This indicates that she is covering up her true self. The implications in this paragraph leads to questions about Lady Audley\u2019s mental state. Is Lady Audley emotional unstable and does it have anything to do with her past? If so, what happened in her past to make her so weak and vulnerable? Why does she put on a mask in public but in private she seems to break down? Is she afraid of something or someone? Does Lady Audley have multiple personalities? Finally, the most important question to be asked is what is Lady Audley hiding?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat does it mean?\u201d he thought. \u201cShe is altogether a different being to the wretched, helpless creature who dropped her mask for a moment, and looked at me with her own pitiful face, in the little room at Mount Stanning, four hours ago. What has happened to cause the change?\u201d (148) In this passage Mr. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2016\/02\/12\/lady-audleys-mask\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lady Audley&#8217;s Mask&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}