Just like any civilized person, you’ve spent practically your whole life torturing an innocent wild creature. Starved it, then force-fed it, cut it, cursed it, driven it to exhaustion. Imprisoned it with other creatures who tormented it.”“ What?” Diana shakes her head in miserable confusion. “I don’teven kill spiders! I never wanted to hurt anything.”“ The innocent wild creature to which I refer, my darling, is you. .Martha N. Beck
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When Diana says, "The innocent wild creature to which I refer, my darling, is you," she is referring to herself. She has been unjustly treated by people all of her life. Her parents died very young and she had to grow up with the help of other people. She was told that she had to marry a man that she didn't even love just because he is rich and powerful.
She was tortured by being forced to do things for him that were against her will. In addition, she was also neglected by her husband after he married her. In the end, she was driven into a shell of depression that made it impossible for her to have a healthy relationship with anyone else.
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