Bertha

Bertha Mason has become a significant literary character since Charlotte Brontë included her in Jane Eyre in 1847. As discussed in chapter one, there was a social correlation between women and hysteria, and a great fear by women of false committals or home imprisonment by their husbands. Jane Eyre is a novel that plays upon that fear and brings these frightening scenarios to life. Brontë's depiction of Bertha Mason also reveals society’s views of hysteria. This is an illness that is difficult to

In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë illustrates character doubling with Jane Eyre and Bertha Mason. Jane, orphaned during early childhood, constantly felt neglected, mistreated, and isolated. Her aunt and cousins treated her as if she was a penniless outcast, thus causing her to become angry and rebellious. Her feelings mirrored that of Mr. Rochester’s wife, Bertha Mason, whom he decided to lock away in the attic at Thornfield Hall. He had become disgusted by her violent outbursts and inappropriate behavior

Throughout the novel of ‘Jane Eyre’ a colonialism and isolation are reflected throughout the novel, mainly through the treatment of Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre as she is cruelly locked in the attic due to her husband, Mr Rochester deeming her as insane. Bertha is described in a demon like manner whereas Jane represents a rebellious young woman who can be closely linked to a modern woman with the values and independence the contemporary readers possess. Jane does not represent any of the desired values

certain standards of domesticity and femininity, namely, they do not embrace Bertha Mason, the mad and muscular, foreign and forgotten wife of Rochester, whom he has condemned to haunt the locked third floor like some supernatural creature of dread.

case when Director Clint Eastwood and author Katherine Mansfield create the stories, Bridges of Madison County and "Bliss." Specifically, the characters of Francesca and Bertha must live with adversity they have created through their own dysfunction in ascribing to societal conventions. Dysfunctional relationships shape who Bertha and Francesca become in the midst of

through a foil between Jane and Bertha. Initially Jane was worth nothing while on the other hand, Bertha was initially rich, beautiful, and everyone wanted to marry her. The roles were switched. Jane established herself, somewhat, and Bertha went “crazy”. Jane was isolated as a child physically and mentally. Jane was locked in the red room for over a night. Mentally she was isolated because as a child she lived with people from a different social class than her own. Bertha was insane because she had

Plain Jane’s Progress” offers a provocative feminist critique, employing the character of Bertha Mason and her entrapment in the attic at Thornfield as an emblematic approach to the oppression of omnipresent patriarchal standards of Victorian Society. Portraying Bertha as the ‘truest and darkest double’ (360) to the novel’s protagonist, manifesting the thoughts and feelings that Jane feels she must subdue. Bertha acts out is what Jane wishes to – particularly in relation to liberation from oppression

In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, the character Bertha Mason is a manifestation of the feelings that Jane cannot express, and thus acts as an alter ego. Every time Bertha acts, it is predicated by a strong emotion or what should have been a strong emotion on Jane’s part. In the Victorian Era, women were expected to follow strict rules and isolate themselves from the outside world. In order to be the “angel in the house,” women were expected to obey and not question their fathers and husbands. Societal

not embrace Bertha Mason, the mad and muscular, foreign and forgotten wife of Edward Rochester. Davis analyzes how the elements of queerness, in the form of gender nonconformity, in Bertha’s character, as well as her ethnic background, make her intolerably “other” in relation to the gender-conforming, Angelo-Saxon characters, and claims that the incarceration and eventual death of Bertha represent Charlotte Brontë’s own imperialistic and hegemonic prejudices. A careful reading of Bertha, her actions

It was a nice October day and Bertha and her family were out on a hike in the woods when suddenly, SQUISH! Bertha heard a bug crush underneath her foot. “Eww,” she stated in disgust, “I just stepped on a spider!” Bertha desperately tried to get the spider guts off of her shoe as her dad said, “You should have watched where you were walking sweetie! That spider could have a family that it was trying to get back to!” Berthas dad had a thing about not killing bugs because he claims that what goes