Crazy Person In Attic Novel

The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination.

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. 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. 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 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.

Since most stories are usually written in past tense this change was slightly disorientating for a few pages. 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. The crazy old lady in the attic is written in first person present tense. Even in death bertha is seeking only emancipation that has been snatched away from her by locking her up in the attic.

Bertha mason full name bertha antoinetta mason is a fictional character in charlotte brontë s 1847 novel jane eyre. The madwoman in the attic. But after the first few pages it seemed perfectly natural and i found myself re i found out about the crazy old lady in the attic from a thread on a forum. 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.

All votes add books to this list flag this list. Bertha through her suicide rejects the confinement that she had been subjected to.