Tudor Pride And Prejudice Essay

At the beginning of the story Jasper is twenty-six years old and we find him in an opium den where he indulges in the pleasures of this oriental opiate provided by an opium woman. As a result his imagination is enhanced; he has hallucinations about a procession led by a sultan followed by his attendants, dancing girls, white caparisoned elephants, cymbals are clashing and scimitars are flashing in the sun. Somehow an ancient English Cathedral Tower is in his hallucination too, and it represents the Cathedral of Cloisterham, displaced in the Oriental world. The sense of displacement of the town’s cathedral from Jasper’s hallucination reflects his own sense of displacement. The young man hates his life. He is in love with Rosa, his nephew’s fiancée. He is torn between his love for the nephew Edwin and a wild passion for Rosa. The way Jasper loved Edwin, or at least, the way that he led everyone believe he loved him was remarkable. The town knew Edwin as “John Jasper’s beloved nephew” who could do him “more good than a doctor” . On first thought, this great kindness and love could merely be a reflection of a benevolent relationship between an uncle and a nephew, but this assumption becomes much riskier when in the nineteenth chapter of the novel we read: "I have made my confession that my love is mad. It is so mad that, had the ties
English society was anxious about other races and especially about the ‘so-called savages that were living in their colonies. Despite the resistance, the East has found its way to the town, through Jasper. According to Howard Duffield, author of the article “John Jasper, strangler” the opening of the novel introduces the importance of the Eastern subject for the