I'm not completely sure if it was adequately explained on the show that Barnabas had an affair with Angelique BEFORE he started courting Josette. It could've been during the courtship, or he and Josette could've broken up and Barnabas could've taken refuge in Angelique's waiting arms.
It was made pretty clear in this conversation in Barnabas' room on Angelique's first night in America:
A: You're so different here. You're as cold as that wind outside your house.
B: I am not cold, but I want to be. I have to be.
A: Why?
B: Because, Angelique, I didn't know that we were going to be married then. To be honest, I thought I was in love with Josette but I didn't realize she was in love with me. But now that we've written, (pause) well, you and I... It's impossible.
In that same scene, he blamed his own weakness for their affair and admitted that he continued to think of her after leaving Martinique. I'm certain his dalliance with Angelique was was borne out of passion and not rebellion.
I mean, didn't he say that he lusted after Laura Collins, Jeremiah's first wife, when telling Sandor the story of Laura in 1897?
In that scene where he visits Angelique's room, ostensibly to tell her that there was no hope, the one MB referred to, he obviously can't resist her. He grabs her and lays one on her very passionately. I saw that not just as lust, but as a man really hungry for the woman he truly loved, one who'd missed her desperately. That he tried valiantly to ignore it is true, but he wasn't very successful at that point.
Again, just speaking for myself, I don't think Barnabas ever really "cared" for Angelique, although in that initial scene in 1795 you can see him trying to be somewhat gracious with her, initially. He doesn't really get rude until it becomes clear that she is not taking "no" for an answer. As for Angelique, I would describe her attachment to Barnabas as obsession--not love. I see a lot of it, particularly the original 1795 narrative, as being about her injured pride and her need for the validation of higher status in genteel society, than about the pure affections of her sweetly adoring heart. I'll leave it at that because we've already gone over all of this a million times in the past.
I believe there is an episode shortly after Angelique arrives at Collinwood, in which barnabas says he promised her nothing, and she responds with something like, "Not all promises are made with words."That was in 1968, if I remember correctly,
Not sure, however... :-
What do you think about Angelique harming Sarah because Barnabas refused her love?
Was she in the right when she turned Barnabas into a vampire in the end?
What do you think about Angelique harming Sarah because Barnabas refused her love?
Was she in the right when she turned Barnabas into a vampire in the end?
And when she turned him into a vampire, that was just done out of the spirit of hatred and revenge in the heat of the moment. This same situation has happened a lot throughout history, and probably in many of your lives, when you decide to do something in the heat of the moment, and then after you've thought about it, wish you could fix it and take it back.
And when she turned him into a vampire, that was just done out of the spirit of hatred and revenge in the heat of the moment. This same situation has happened a lot throughout history, and probably in many of your lives, when you decide to do something in the heat of the moment, and then after you've thought about it, wish you could fix it and take it back.
Seriously though, since I can understand Barn's murderous ways and still love the character, Angelique fans can still love their witch even when she makes a child ill.
But this wasn't some petty revenge. Angelique had to actually make him die before he could become a vampire. I don't think killing the man you claim to love would endear him to you.
Another point to be made here is, no matter how many times Barnabas tried, he invariably had to turn to Angelique for help with whatever he was doing. Her price, always, was his love -- his return to her. He was loath to do it, but again and again, he'd capitulate. Bottom line for me is, Angelique was always there for him, and he finally realized it. In 1840, Spoiler:
she finally helped Barnabas with absolutely no strings attached. This was irresistible to Barnabas. He could finally see her as the woman she was and not the witch.
I never saw her actions in 1840 as selfless. Yes, she helped him with nothing to gain, but she was still trying to prove to him that she could be unselfish, so that he would love her. And in that sense, she had everything to gain. JMHO, though. :)
Look at that guy who jumped on the guy having a seizure in a NYC subway. He was rewarded A LOT, from people like Donald Trump, Ellen DeGeneres, and even Oprah I think, as well as others, for something that he didn't have to do but still did.
And at many jobs we are given bonuses for doing paperwork or other things that are already a part of our job descriptions. Many times, these are called "incentives". So I think making "amends" as it were, strongly depends on the person's mindset before the action, and whether or not that person expects to be rewarded for what he or she has done.
Look how much James Hall made everyone's skin crawl as the first Willie Loomis. (Well mine anyhow.)
If they hadn't made the jump back to 1795 and made Barnabas a sympathetic character I wonder where he would have ended up?