#jane fox

[emma-ofnormandy]

#well sh*t The Artful Dodger 2.6- Bellybutton

[byunbaekcult]

jack is so kind which sounds kind of bear minimum but he really cares about being a doctor and making a difference, saving lives. lady jane genuinely expected a ploy jack but dr dawkins is as genuine as it gets. not only does he know how much belle's family means to her but he generally cares for the well-being of the governess. JACK DAWKINS IS SO KIND

[pinspec]

sorry but i need to yap about the parental dynamics in the artful dodger season 2—the parallels between fagin and jane in particular are SO juicy. for the first time since belle’s heart surgery, we see weakness in jane’s armour. her fear of edmund, which she tries to conceal with scathing jabs, becomes more and more apparent. what first appears to be venomous dislike is soon shown to be terror; his presence represents her hidden status as a fallen woman.

this patriarchal fear is worsened by the fact that she could have fallen farther if she wasn’t saved by a kinder man who tries to let her thrive within the gilded cage. she sees jack as such a threat to belle’s freedom that she ironically suppresses belle directly, using her dreams of working as a surgeon to manipulate her into staying away from jack. when jane realises the danger of belle’s charity work in devil’s elbow, she insists belle must stay in the house—but to belle, the concept of bowing to this command when people are dying in the streets without care is so laughable that she simply refuses. and jane can’t stop her.

and when she finds belle and jack together—proof that her threats aren’t enough to stop belle from risking pregnancy—she tries to sever all ties with her daughter and disown her. she does this because she can’t bear the thought of watching belle fall just like she did. it’s not belle’s independence that concerns her; it’s the fact that belle doesn’t know the terror associated with being pregnant and alone, futureless and abandoned. jane’s fear has festered inside her without an outlet—unable to talk to anyone about it and terrified that her husband will find out the truth, her position and actions are totally defined by fear.

fagin is also motivated to drive a wedge between belle and jack and constantly tries to make jack doubt her—by not handing over the letters, by telling him she abandoned him, by pointing out how inadequate their home is for a lady like belle. in trying to protect jack from being hurt by the same people who have always hurt jack, fagin makes jack doubt himself and his own worthiness. because of this, jack’s newfound faith in fagin from last season is reduced to ashes.

feeling totally alone, he sees belle reunited with her family—belle, who he believes is in love with someone else—and feels the weight of the fears that fagin has drilled into him. how could he be worthy of a family like belle’s when the only experience he has of family is fractured and uncertain, wrought with pain? this is made even more devastating by the fact that fagin’s love for jack is shown in his bitter exchange with belle, which the audience sees but jack isn’t privy to: i don’t think you’re good enough for my boy, he says—to which belle responds, I’M not good enough? while it’s evident that she doesn’t really believe she’s better than jack due to her class, the assumptions of her status nevertheless surface in her reflexive response. fagin picks up the quiet suggestion that she really doesn’t value jack as much as he deserves and feels affirmed in his distrust of her: there it is. there it is. you’re a toff. you’ll never see him as an equal and that boy is worth twice anyone else and thrice you. so no, i do not trust my boy with a lady who will piss off when loving him becomes inconvenient.

fagin’s projection of a potential abandonment onto belle and jack’s relationship is, of course, rooted in his own abandonment of jack in the past. having seen how this affected jack firsthand, his guilt—which he never really openly admits—is manifested in his distrust of belle. interestingly, this causes fagin to enact another experience of abandonment onto jack without really thinking about it. by holding back the letters, he leaves jack to believe that belle has left him on death row.

could we see fagin handing jack the difficult choice of whether or not to keep him in his life as equally unfair? possibly fagin doesn’t know how to do the work of fixing things, and tries to do right by jack the only way he knows how.

fagin and jane work in their own interests, holding their own understanding of reality above that of the person they’re trying to protect. their love is unquestionable, but belle and jack don’t feel it and seek constantly to escape the control being exerted on them. however, jane becomes a narrative foil to fagin’s failures. by finally apologising and helping belle understand her actions without justifying them, she mends the rift between them. in contrast, fagin hurts jack again. he asks jack if he wants to disown him (crazy parallel by the way) and, confused and shattered by the dissonance caused by the constant interference from what he previously thought was finally a safe relationship, jack asks fagin to leave his life.

[muchcelebrated]

Okay but now that Lady Jane has accepted Belle and Jack’s relationship imagine her being overly supportive of Jack and determined to defend him as an appropriate suitor to anyone that doubts him.

‘He’s the finest surgeon in the colony of course he’s good enough for my daughter and this family!I’ll bet he’s saved more lives than any doctor in this country or in England for that matter! He could’ve been published in the Lancet 10 times over by now, but he’s just so humble and it would take away from the time he spends on his patients. Yes, isn’t he so thoughtful? I dare say there isn’t a better suitor out there for my daughter.’

It both relieves him and Belle and makes them uncomfortable/confuses them.

[calkestis]

THE ARTFUL DODGER S02E04 | "Platinum"

[sankta-wraith]

Belle Fox is really awesome because she’s the female physician who’s just as good, if not better, than her male colleagues but has to fight tooth and nail just to be taken even a tiny bit seriously, and she’s the female patient who knows that something is seriously wrong with her but has her concerns dismissed outright by her parents and a male doctor.

[apoloniaspiegelgold]

Jane: I know what you are :) Belle: aw shit oh fuck oh no oh no no no no noooo

[sonicandvisualsurprises]

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