What can I say about St. Clare and his family? Well, I
rather enjoyed reading those particular chapters, mainly because St. Clare is
such an enigma. As, we discussed in class out of all the characters in the
novel he is the most three-dimensional and complex; many like Eva and Mr.
Shelby are fairly flat and two-dimensional, which probably adds to their cliché
natures, as I mentioned in my last post. Like Mr. Shelby, I found it very easy
to be sympathetic towards St. Clare’s life, especially since he ended up
marrying Marie and not his initial true love from his past.
Speaking of Marie, she reminds very much of one of the wives
from the Real Housewives of whatever shows. While, it does become quite clear
that Marie loves her daughter very much, I just could not get past her shallow,
demoralizing attitudes towards the slaves on their plantation-sounds like an
oxymoron, I realize, since that how I’m sure it was commonplace for the majority
of people’s attitudes towards slavery was back then.
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