The Woman In The Attic Jane Eyre

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.

The woman in the attic jane eyre. In jane eyre the character of bertha mason serves as an ominous representation of uncontrollable passion and madness. In jane eyre grace poole is the mystery woman and the scapegoat for the strange sounds coming from the attic and the attack on richard mason. To my young mind she was nothing more than a plot device. Her dark sensuality and violent nature contrast sharply with jane s calm morality and it is no surprise that bertha s presence at thornfield is a key factor in transforming mr.

Rochester into a stereotypical byronic hero. The madwoman in the attic. 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. When she sat down to write jane eyre a few years later she combined the experience of a young awkward impoverished governess with the rumors of a woman locked in the attic and threw in an.

In wide sargasso sea her character is more vocal but not necessarily deeper. In the novel mason was the former wife of edward rochester and she was kept locked up in the attic because she was mad. I have read and re read jane eyre many times and i m embarrassed to admit that i had never paid much attention to this spectre of a woman lurking in the shadows until much later in life. The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination is a 1979 book by sandra gilbert and susan gubar in which they examine victorian literature from a feminist perspective.

Her name is bertha mason and she is a character in jane eyre a novel written by charlotte bronte. But many tried to push back against this. A nuisance and an impediment to. One such example of this is a woman who tried to fight the patriarchal norms.