Book Of Crazy Wife Locked In Attic

In the book jane eyre mason is locked away in the upper enclaves of the home for ten years by her husband for being mad before she sets fire to the home she shares with her spouse and throws.

Book of crazy wife locked in attic.

Charlotte brontë s jane eyre is well known for the shocking discovery of mr rochester s scandalous hidden wife a deranged woman locked away in an attic. But astonishingly this may not have all been fiction. In a way yes. As a result of all this bertha spends most of her adult life locked in a room a few years in a room in jamaica and ten years in the attic at thornfield.

Anonymous asked in arts humanities books authors 1 decade ago what is the name of the novel about an man who had a wife that was crazy and he lokced her in the attic. Arguably she was better off there than in what passed for a mental health facility in those days. Andrews was in the hospital for a spinal operation when she was young and developed a crush on her young doctor. 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.

The madwoman in the attic. We don t know about you but we d hate the person who did that to us too. She either overheard the story or he told her the story of how. One like jane curtailed over the years to fit into the conventional victorian angel of the house the other bertha suffering her confinement and being eventually pushed towards madness madwoman in the attic two terms used by sandra gilbert and susan gubar in a reading of jane eyre their very famous.

Bertha s homicidal pyromaniac reaction however is admittedly a wee bit extreme. Gilbert and gubar draw their title from charlotte brontë s jane eyre in which rochester s wife is kept secretly locked in an attic apartment by her husband. Rhys s novel re imagines brontë s devilish madwoman in the attic. 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.

Edward rochester keeps his violently insane wife bertha locked in the attic of thornfield in jane eyre.