Rochesters Mad Woman 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.

Rochesters mad woman in the attic.

Bertha serves as jane s double juxtaposing the feminist character to a character constrained by domesticity. 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. Initial impressions further revelations rochester s burden recent interpretations of bertha jean rhys wide sargasso sea gilbert and gubar s the madwoman in the attic the most well known and problematic character in jane eyre is rochester s first wife who is almost always referred to by her maiden name of bertha mason. The madwoman in the attic.

In the madwoman in the attic they cast bertha as a passionate untrammelled woman who acts out jane s darkest most secret desires. The madwoman in the attic takes its title from the iconic early victorian novel jane eyre. The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination. The second of two beautiful women is murdered on a train and the primary suspect is an amnesiac man.

In this novel rochester s first wife bertha mason has gone mad and is kept locked in an attic. With robbie coltrane rob palmer jeffrey robert andy devine. Eddie fitz fitzgerald an old friend of the second victim is brought in to help. Directed by michael winterbottom.

Her life turns upside down when she discovers right before her wedding that her lover has an ex wife a madwoman hidden in the attic and flees narrowly escaping from committing to a sinful relationship. 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.