Bertha

parallels relate to objects and nature, but mostly to one particular individual in the novel. A seemingly exact opposite of the persona's placid character, the maniacal Bertha Mason actually personifies an inner part of Jane, the part of her personality that longs to live free but goes crazy under the oppression of society, and especially

Through her short stories you feel the emotional connection within the characters. She was a young New Zealand who was dying with a disease called Tuberculosis, dying at the age of 34. Successfully, she wrote three books with a fourth and fifth book following after her death. There were many trigger points that led her to become a writer, they were moving back to New Zealand, her brother’s death in World War 1, and her sensations with how women were treated. Her stories were described as blurred

ch. 27) Jane Eyre’s inner struggle over leaving an already married Rochester is the epitome of the new "lovemad" woman in nineteenth-century literature. Jane Eyre is the story of a lovemad woman who has two parts to her personality (herself and Bertha Mason) to accommodate this madness. Charlotte Bronte takes the already used character of the lovemad woman and uses her to be an outlet for the confinement

grovelled, seemingly, on all fours; it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered with clothing, and a quantity of dark, grizzled hair, wild as a mane, hid its head and face” (Brontë 282). The main function or even desire of Bertha, similarly to Grendel’s mother, is to put physical threat on other characters. For example, it can be noticed in such her acts as setting Mr. Rochester’s bed on

Rochester informs Jane that Bertha came from a mad family, but he was not aware of her hereditary predisposition to insanity until after they had married. Bertha was not found to be mad until she and Rochester had spent quite some time together. Throughout her time at Thornfield Jane is suspicious of a secret in Thornfield Hall that she is being shielded and even protected from. She believes the secret lies on the third floor, and it not until her happiest hour that Bertha, the madwoman upstairs, is

Jane Eyre - Woman as Demon Missing Works Cited Women in Victorian literature often came to be seen as "the other" or in more direct terms, as somehow demonized. This is certainly true in Jane Eyre. Bertha Mason, Rochester's mad wife, is the epitome of the demon in the attic. By virtue of being the first wife she is in continually compared to Jane. Although there are parallels in plot and language between the two women, they are completely different people. In addition, Bronte also depicts other

also used as a moral justification to the Britishers to impose their rule on India" (Perera 92). With an attempt to distinguish between the old and the new, Charlotte Bronte creates the character of Bertha Mason as the exhibition of female repression and desire frequently found in the East. Bertha Rochester is the emblem of Eastern society, one which the British see as static and barbaric, and Jane Eyre is representative of the Western Civilization. In Reaches of Empire, Suvendrini Perera argues

understanding of the real world and the aspects of life they certainly didn’t make it easy. The antagonists of this story had major impacts on Jane’s life. These antagonists consisted of Mrs. Reed at Gateshed, Mr. Brocklehurst at the Lowood School, and Bertha at Thornfield. Mrs. Reed was very evil lady from the start of the book. Her son John was extremely mean to Jane and even got her thrown into the red room to which she had a terrifying experience and ended up feinting. From that point Mrs. Reed held

continued to murder innocent people proving his insanity long lasting and very lethal. Bertha Mason, Rochester’s first wife, is also one of those insane who are extremely dangerous. Bertha is a significant presence in the book Jane Eyre because she causes the mysterious happenings at Thornfield, leads to the separation of Jane and Rochester, and ultimately leaves Rochester crippled by burning down Thornfield. To begin, Bertha proves to be a weighty presence in Jane Eyre because she is the source of the mysterious

The 2-dimensional Illustration presents fire and ice coming towards each other which represents Jane Eyre’s and Bertha Mason’s character. The motif of fire and ice are used frequently used throughout the novel in order to convey the sense of opposing forces in a consistent conflict. From Jane Eyre’s early childhood, it appears that she has a split personality which is a result of the traumatizing psychological abuse her aunt and her cousins have put her through which caused her to have multiple personalities