Crazy Person In Attic Novel

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.

Crazy person in attic novel.

All votes add books to this list flag this list. She is described as the violently insane first wife of edward rochester who moved her to thornfield hall and locked her in a room on the third floor. The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination. Bertha mason rochester s first wife was a beautiful creole woman from jamaica who rochester married years ago before she had a mental breakdown and naturally had to be locked in the attic.

She jumps off the house openly affirming her identity one last time. This is when a character with mental problems and often some physical deformity is locked away because they will never fit into society usually either in the attic or in the basement and often by a corrupt hick. Bertha through her suicide rejects the confinement that she had been subjected to. The readers only meet bertha when she is in the depths of madness having been confined in the third story attic of thornfield for nearly fifteen years and there is not enough interaction between her and the other characters to demonstrate any angelic behavior.

The role of the insane woman in literature a common theme in novels is the role of the insane women made famous i believe by the mad women in the attic in jane eyre. The real life attic that was the inspiration for a section of jane eyre where mentally ill character bertha mason is confined before she commits suicide is now open to the public. Since most stories are usually written in past tense this change was slightly disorientating for a few pages. Even in death bertha is seeking only emancipation that has been snatched away from her by locking her up in the attic.

The madwoman in the attic. The madwoman in the attic bertha has become especially famous in literary criticism because her situation supplied the title and central theory of a major 1979 book of feminist criticism sandra gilbert and susan gubar s the madwoman in the attic.