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and the submissiveness of females that are described in chapter 27, when Mr Rochester explains to Jane who his wife is and her backstory. Through Mr Rochester, Bronte uses terminology that has racial connotations when referring to Bertha. Mr Rochester “conveyed” Bertha from her home and “safely lodged (her) in that third-story room” . This presents colonial ideologies, as Bertha’s possessions became controlled and possessed by Mr Rochester and she in turn lost her freedom. Bertha’s race contributes

stability which is shown blatantly through the relationship between Antoinette and Bertha. This shows the relationship and balance between inherited factors and environmental influences such as other people and events that are happening around the person. Though physically Antoinette and Bertha are the same person the distinction between them becomes apparent when looked at from a psychological point of view. Bertha is the psychological manifestation of Antoinette’s madness. The way Rhys presents

In the novel Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë, Bertha and Jane seem as if they are foils of one another. However, upon careful consideration, they are actually very similar. Both are scorned by society: Jane for her independence, and Bertha for her mental illness, they each have a part of them that is wild and untamed, and finally they both need Mr. Rochester in their lives: Jane for wages and his love, and Bertha simply for survival in a world that does not know how to treat mental disabilities.

Within Jane Eyre, a fundamental conflict exists in Rochester’s secrecy as he hides his former wife Bertha Mason from everyone, believing that her insane and feral nature prevents any form of peace in his own life. However, while various aspects of Rochester’s story suggest that she may have inherited her family’s genetic predisposition to insanity, the work also suggests that a large portion of her violent behavior towards Rochester originated from his own actions and faults, supporting Bronte’s

The line between nineteenth-century psychology and fiction is almost nonexistent. Based upon the contemporary scientific, medical, and public discourses, the topic of mental illness was examined across all fields. The mutability of this term, mental illness, draws the question of what made it so changeable in the nineteenth century. It is the aim of this dissertation to show the treatment of social and medical discourse in Victorian literature by exploring Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and

also reveals optimistic future opportunities for women, while contrasting, dark images expose the restricted lives of women before the war. Sime’s employment of a limited omniscient narrative allows readers to follow Bertha, a twenty-four-year-old woman. The narrative must follow Bertha as she is young enough to have a future ahead of her, but old enough to have had experiences. With Bertha’s experience as a maid, one can understand the hardships she has been through. However, with Bertha’s new job

Freudian perspective. First off I will start with his id, from the very beginning of the book Breuer mentions a woman named Bertha also known as Anna O. Throughout the entire story Breuer suffers from the fantasies that he has of Bertha. The id engages in primary thinking, which is primitive, illogical, irrational and fantasy oriented. Breuer becomes obsessed with these fantasies of Bertha to the point where he says, “This obsession

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Bertha Mason, Edward Rochester’s first wife, is generally considered the villain in the novel Jane Eyre, although, when taking a closer look at her most diabolical habit, escaping her captivity and setting fires, placing the role of the evil antagonist onto her an incorrect assumption. Jane Eyre is told through the eyes of Jane Eyre herself, in a first person account of her life. Jane, in the most nicely put way, dislikes Bertha, but understandably so. Bertha, in the eyes of the law, has the one

characters of Jane Eyre and Bertha Mason as being negatively perceived by society, as they are both treated unfairly and are seemingly undesirable and disregarded. Looked down upon by society, they are made to feel suppressed and as if their thoughts do not matter. Such feelings of oppression seem to drive both Jane and Bertha to madness; Bertha seems to embody the inner rage that Jane tries to control within herself throughout the novel. Through drawing parallels between Jane and Bertha, Brontё highlights