Rochesters Mad Women In The Attic

Her life turns upside down when she discovers right before her wedding that her lover has an ex wife a madwoman hidden in the attic and flees narrowly escaping from committing to a sinful relationship.

Rochesters mad women in the attic. The first and most important point to make about her is that within the time span of the novel she is unable to give an account of herself. Gilbert and gubar draw their title from charlotte brontë s jane eyre in which rochester s wife née bertha mason is kept secretly locked in an attic apartment by her husband. Originally read as the novel s. The incident of the madwoman in the attic is probably the most famous in jane eyre and it has given rise to innumerable interpretations and symbolic readings.

In the 1847 novel jane eyre charlotte bronte creates one of the most controversial characters in all of english literature. The madwoman in the attic takes its title from the iconic early victorian novel jane eyre. In this novel rochester s first wife bertha mason has gone mad and is kept locked in an attic. The tragedy of the rochesters reignited the ancient storyline of a madwoman secretly confined influencing works such as wilkie collins s the woman in white and the chilling novella the yellow.

In the madwoman in the attic they cast bertha as a passionate untrammelled woman who acts out jane s darkest most secret desires. Bertha antoinetta mason edward rochester s clandestine first wife was an essential component to the plot and character development in jane eyre rochester discloses the identity of the woman locked in the attic of his thornfield hall as his wife after a thwarted attempt to marry jane eyre. Eventually the madwoman bertha mason commits suicide and jane marries mr rochester. Rochester claims to have imprisoned her because she is mad but it is easy to imagine an opposite.

The madwoman in the attic. Bertha mason full name bertha antoinetta mason is a fictional character in charlotte brontë s 1847 novel jane eyre she is described as the violently insane first wife of edward rochester who moved her to thornfield hall and locked her in a room on the third floor. For example bertha mason could represent the horror of victorian marriage. The 1966 parallel novel wide sargasso sea by jean rhys serves as a prequel to brontë s novel.

Jane hates rochester dolling her up like a princess so.