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discusses British novelist Minette Walters' 1994 book, The Scold's Bridle, and whether it
provides a useful example of the theories of Sigmund Freud. The report suggests that
Freud's theories are particularly applicable in Walters' story. Bibliography lists only the
primary source.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BWscolds.rtf
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British novelist Minette Walters presents in her 1994 book, The Scolds Bridle, is whether or not those who disliked her also wanted her dead. Mathilda is found dead in her
bathtub with her wrists slit. While that form of death is most often considered a suicide, Mathilda was wearing a "scolds bridle" strapped on her head that also had a
garland of stinging nettles and daisies wrapped around it. Such a "bridle" was used in medieval times as a torture device and a way to silence a nagging woman or
a "scold." Walters describes it in the first page of the novel as being an: "... awful contraption that caged the bloodless face, its rusted metal bit clamping the dead
tongue still in the gaping mouth" (pp. 3). If Mathilda had really killed herself, how and why would she have put that on her head? So many people hated her
that it seems only logical to see her death as having been a murder. As the student reading The Scolds Bridle begins to analyze it, it will be important that
he or she consider the way that Walters incorporates a number of psychological considerations. Throughout the book, the reader will find that along with presenting a murder mystery, the author
is showing the mysteries of the human mind and the ways that hatred, love, and other emotions such as envy, greed, resentment, and retaliation, all play into the story.
What Would Freud Think? There are a number of suspects to be considered once the police conclude that Mathilda had to have been murdered. Mathildas next door neighbors, the Orloffs,
confide to Cooper, the detective, that they thought of themselves as friends of Mathilda and that they had known her for fifty years. But Mrs. Orloff makes note of the
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