Berytha was famous for her beauty and she was the pride of the town in the words of Rochester. A weak-willed man, Richard Mason. He came to spoil the wedding and reveal all the truth. He is beaten and stabbed by his own sister Bertha when he goes to her room alone during his visit to Thornfield. Richard arrives with the solicitor Briggs in order to spoil the wedding.
In Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason has specified an intricate manifestation. Impending happiness of Jane and also catalysing the self-understanding growth of Jane. An unsureness and dread are added to the plot and the ether with the surrounding mystery of Bertha.
Bertha Mason also saw serving as a remnant and reminder of youthful liberalism of Rochester. Allowed not to travel or labour outside the house. With time becoming more feverish, seeing no way out for her obstruction and fretfulness. Jane also thinks to shout of the rage against the captivity it could grow into. Also all over the story, she does battle with the forces, that preclude her from finding the looked-for contentment.
The first person reporter, Jane Eyre narrates incidents from her doomed childhood, offensive relatives, the Stalks, to her idyllic marriage to Rochester. The lines of Jane shows how she uses to escape from her unhappy domestic situation with her stories and imaginations; landing into the world away from all troubles. Stories for Jane is an escape from real life. Blunt, truthful, and lacking in personal arrogance, she often provided a prototypical of proper English womanhood.
Rochester had journeyed to the West Indies and it was the time when he was made known to Mason when she was in her late twenties. Initially, Bertha was described with appropriate conduct. She pleased Rochester and also had lavishly shown for her allures and endeavours for his desire. Rochester describes an accelerating illness when Bertha Mason was in her early thirties. JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser.
Click the character infographic to download. She also suffers from congenital insanity read: madness runs in her family. In that sense, they were both screwed over by their families; they were young and silly, and neither of them really thought to slow down and think about things before saying their vows.
As a result of all this, Bertha spends most of her adult life locked in a room—a few years in a room in Jamaica, and ten years in the attic at Thornfield.
The fact that she crawls around on all fours making animalistic noises and laughing in a creepy way also suggests that the thread of her sanity has long since snapped. It was a discoloured face—it was a savage face. I wish I could forget the roll of the red eyes and the fearful blackened inflation of the lineaments! Shall I tell you of what it reminded me? However, the word of her accomplishments, good looks, and particularly her wealth, recommended her. According to Rochester, they were married before he knew where he was, but her true nature quickly revealed itself.
He reacts with physical sickness to the situation and even wishes to commit suicide. He obviously missed his home country and former life, regardless of the much hated wife. The West Indian climate oppressed him.
In the midst of his embarrassment about the ruined wedding, he is eager to give Jane the worst possible description of his wife. He seeks to justify his actions and assure Jane that living with the creature in the attic was equal only to life in hell.
His statements are consistent with what the reader already knows about Bertha. She once again tried to set the house on fire, succeeded this time, and in an irrational act that is to be expected from the likes of a lunatic, jumps to her death with a yell She is a dangerous madwoman at best, a wild beast at worst.
However, her character is crucial in the advancement of the plot. For the function she takes on in the novel, a more balanced depiction of her is unnecessary. Bertha is the mysterious gothic element in the story. She saves the plot from being just another love story by adding a dark side to the narrative and the character of Rochester. Her threatening presence adds suspense. The flatness of her character paired with her significance in this important contribution to Victorian literature invites speculation about what her history may be like and what sort of person she was before madness confined her to the attic.
Jean Rhys took up the challenge to create her a past and in doing so affords critics another avenue to interpret Jane Eyre. Rhys novel is not so much a prequel to Jane Eyre , as an alternative version of the story. It focuses on the profound differences between Rochester and his wife, who has lived a life so alien to his that communication between the two proves almost impossible.
Wide Sargasso Sea suggests that he himself and various external influences contributed to the disastrous ending of their marriage which would eventually drive Bertha into madness. Wide Sargasso Sea clearly focuses on the dividing qualities of the waters and the disparity of its opposite shores.
Rochester is an aristocrat from a wealthy family with all the pretensions of rank. Antoinette on the other hand has experienced a childhood in poverty and a mostly hostile environment. Her home estate slowly decayed as her mother sold her jewellery to afford clothes.
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