From page 129
'"Go," said Hope, "and live again in Europe: there it is not known what a sullied name you bear, nor what a filthy burden is bound to you. You may take the maniac with you to England; confine her with due attendance and precautions at Thornfield: then travel yourself to what clime you will, and form what new tie you like."
This first portion of the quote I believe is what formed the mindset about many colonists. They believed that they lived 2 different lives. One in the West Indies and one in England. It explains why many colonists acted the way they did and thus treated the people the way they did. The life they had in the West Indies did not matter, the only one that was important was the life in England, the one to which they were born too.
"That women who has so abused your long-suffering - so sullied your name; so outraged your honour; so blighted your youth - is not your wife; nor are you her husband."
This quote seems to contradict the presence of God because their marriage was under him. So why is it that should he return to England that this marriage does not stand? Is God's presence not accounted for in the West Indies? If this is the case, it this why colonist treated the indigenous people of the West Indies like beast or in a twist of words, why the colonists acted like beasts themselves?
I agree with you in the fact that it is immoral to act this way. He lied and was unfaithful which are acts against god. But I also have sympathy for him because he was forced into this marriage and he did not know what he was getting into.
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