Book Of Crazy Wife Locked In Attic

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.

Book of crazy wife locked in attic.

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. But astonishingly this may not have all been fiction. Arguably she was better off there than in what passed for a mental health facility in those days. Even though jane eyre is a revolutionary book for its time and relevant even today it has some elements that are problematic like confining women into only two possible boxes.

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. Andrews was in the hospital for a spinal operation when she was young and developed a crush on her young doctor. 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. 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.

It is the story of mason there called antoinette cosway from the time of her youth in the caribbean to her unhappy marriage and relocation to england. 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. She either overheard the story or he told her the story of how. We don t know about you but we d hate the person who did that to us too.

The 1966 parallel novel wide sargasso sea by jean rhys serves as a prequel to brontë s novel. The madwoman in the attic. Bertha s homicidal pyromaniac reaction however is admittedly a wee bit extreme. Edward rochester keeps his violently insane wife bertha locked in the attic of thornfield in jane eyre.

In a way yes.