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Charlotte Brontë’s Villette: Chapter XXXVI ‘The Apple of Discord’
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Good evening and welcome to today’s second episode, where we continue with Charlotte Brontë’s Villette. A chapter that mulls the differences been Protestant and Roman Catholic faiths. I imagine Charlotte Brontë sometimes closing her eyes and writing straight from heightened or deepened feelings, where the plot is irrelevant: her pen creates a room or space full of contrasting thoughts, emotions, images and even sights and sounds. Plants are watered, canine ears are silky, we smell Catholic incense and hear the noise from a religious procession: all taking place in the mind and intense memories of Lucy Snowe, with some quiet and wholly unpredictable movements in plot and pace. We finish the chapter thinking what? For me, that in hearing from such an intelligent and perceptive, sensitive woman living in a different world and time, we are privileged and - in my case - my heart swells with gladness at that privilege and fervent admiration for her mind.
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