Chapter 7 - part 4
Posted: May 17th, 2010, 2:11 pm
Synopsis : Jane attempts to make her way home only to find every route blocked by the riot. When she attempts to outflank the turmoil, she is arrested by the N.I.C.E. police. Jane finds herself being interrogated by Fairy Hardcastle, who shows a perverted interest in her. But Jane has a lucky break when the Fairy is reminded of an appointment with Capt. O'Hara. Jane is taken along with the institutional police when they find themselves surrounded by their own engineered riot. Jane is abandoned as Hardcastle and the other police run for their lives. A good samaritan gives Jane a lift over to St. Anne's
Fairy Hardcastle thinks she is on her way to winning favor with her superiors at Belbury when she finds Jane Studdock in her custody. But when she mixes business with pleasure, she ruins her own plans. Lewis describes a sort of lesbian bondage and discipline game played by the Fairy when she dismisses the policemen from the makeshift interrogation room. Lewis compares Fairy Hardcastle's appearance to "...such things as Rubens might have painted in delirium". What he is trying to express is something which should have been attractive, such as the buxom nudes of Dutch painter Peter Paul Rubens, perverted into something horrible through mental illness or more likely sin. This scene is quite effective, yet mercifully short. The other police are tipped off to Hardcastle's intent by the fact that she lights up her cigar. Apparently she only uses it to torture those in her custody. Jane learns of this as she is locked between the leather booted legs of this "ogress", as Lewis fittingly describes her. And yet Jane perseveres without feeling heroic for doing so.
This act of perversion proves to be Hardcastle's undoing as she is reminded by one of her Waips about her 1:00 AM apointment with Capt. O'Hara. She panics and orders everyone into a large police car.
Fairy Hardcastle thinks she is on her way to winning favor with her superiors at Belbury when she finds Jane Studdock in her custody. But when she mixes business with pleasure, she ruins her own plans. Lewis describes a sort of lesbian bondage and discipline game played by the Fairy when she dismisses the policemen from the makeshift interrogation room. Lewis compares Fairy Hardcastle's appearance to "...such things as Rubens might have painted in delirium". What he is trying to express is something which should have been attractive, such as the buxom nudes of Dutch painter Peter Paul Rubens, perverted into something horrible through mental illness or more likely sin. This scene is quite effective, yet mercifully short. The other police are tipped off to Hardcastle's intent by the fact that she lights up her cigar. Apparently she only uses it to torture those in her custody. Jane learns of this as she is locked between the leather booted legs of this "ogress", as Lewis fittingly describes her. And yet Jane perseveres without feeling heroic for doing so.
This act of perversion proves to be Hardcastle's undoing as she is reminded by one of her Waips about her 1:00 AM apointment with Capt. O'Hara. She panics and orders everyone into a large police car.