{"id":636,"date":"2017-09-13T16:34:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T20:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=636"},"modified":"2017-11-30T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:34:07","slug":"animal-instinct-about-lady-audley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2017\/09\/13\/animal-instinct-about-lady-audley\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Instinct About Lady Audley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cLady Audley happened to enter the room at this very moment, and the animal cowered down by the side of his mistress with a suppressed growl. There was something in the manner of the dog which was, if anything, more indicative of terror than of fury, incredible as it appears that Caesar should be frightened of so fragile a creature as Lucy Audley\u201d (Braddon, 107). <\/span><\/p>\n

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This passage continues to reveal that Lady Audley\u2019s true personality might not be the one she outwardly portrays to others.\u00a0 The words, \u201ccowered,\u201d \u201cterror,\u201d and \u201cfrightened\u201d (Braddon, 107) are all used to contrast and question the reaction of Alicia\u2019s Newfoundland, Caesar, with Lady Audley\u2019s \u201cfragile\u201d (Braddon, 107) persona. This juxtaposition of the aura Lady Audley gives off and the appearance she wishes to convey to others, raises questions of whether or not Lady Audley is genuine in her being. Lady Audley was previously described as having \u201cthe innocence and candour of an infant\u201d (Braddon, 55) which makes \u00a0it strange that an animal should be fearful of a person as \u201cfragile a creature as Lucy Audley\u201d (Braddon, 107). The binary of sincerity vs. fa\u00e7ade is once again brought up. This passage further reveals that Lady Audley is not as innocent as she wants people to believe. Caesar is \u201cterror[ified]\u201d when she enters the room after previously \u201croll[ing] his eyes\u201d (Braddon, 107) and appearing calm. It was only after Lady Audley\u2019s entrance that his personality changed. It is unknown what specifically sparks the change in the dog, but the reader can infer that the presence of Lady Audley has caused a disturbance. Dogs are often said to be a good judge of character, which makes the reader even more skeptical of this scenario. In the next chapter, Robert Audley also mentions \u201ca change!\u201d (Braddon, 121) that Lady Audley has brought about. As the novel progresses, readers continue to see the responses of and to Lady Audley that seem odd and out of place. This adds to the question of who Lady Audley actually is and what is her secret? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cLady Audley happened to enter the room at this very moment, and the animal cowered down by the side of his mistress with a suppressed growl. There was something in the manner of the dog which was, if anything, more indicative of terror than of fury, incredible as it appears that Caesar should be frightened … Continue reading Animal Instinct About Lady Audley<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782,123801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post","category-2017-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","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\/3619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}