The Desire to Conquer in Jesusville :: Character analysis, Jessy Belle the Second

The interlude in which Vee visits the museum of exotic dancers is quite an interesting I think one of the purposes of the scene was too reward the idea of rape that runs throughout the novel. Specifically with this idea of rape, I confab to the desire/need to conquer and to be conquered. This idea can be illustrated by several of the characters.The first character I get out arrest with is Jessie Belle. At the beginning of their adventure into the mountains, Jessie introduces her truck to suck up as Jessie Belle the Second. My backside Self (pg 84). Trace then adds the comment, Kind of like an alter egotism (pg 84). This becomes an interesting statement when we afterward receive a description of Jessie Belle with her truck. Cioffari writes that Trace was impressed, too, by the skill she used to maneuver the old jeep, forcing it to do her will (pg 85). If we consider Jessie Belle the Second as an extension of Jessie, then we can suck in a connection as to how Jessie is in ne ed of control something deep down her. This need to conquer is manifested in her search for Joshua and the Salvia Divinorum. In finding the plant, Jessie is able to check over Joshua for a final time through her hallucinations, and at the end of the novel seems to have conquered what she needed in order to activate on. A second instance that reinforces this idea is the interlude which describes Jessies hallucination. to a lower place the influence of the Salvia, Jessie dances and touches herself. It is through this act that we see Jessies consciousness, as it is downstairs the influence of the plant, conquering her unconscious self another illustration of Jessies need to conquer something within her.A second character that we see this idea manifested through is Father Martin. He, like Jessie, is in need of conquering something within. In his case it is his own doubts and fears. Attempting to calm his nerves, Father Martin paces to tire himself. He describes the iniquity as h aving an overpowering silence and that the night mocked his efforts (pg 75). Father Martin hears the night taunting him, Walk from here to kingdom come. For the next six hours I own you. Ill do with you what I will. A few pages later we see an encounter (arguably sexual) in which Martin conquers the silence through his act of plangency the bells.