In an older novel bronte s jane eyre bertha mason is merely a crazy women locked up in the attic of mr.
Crazy lady in the attic.
Mason s first wife is quite a secondary character in that novel.
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The woman whom we learn in the brontë s novel is actually mr.
Novelette 15k words psychological horror.
But one night the crazy woman in the attic slipped past an inebriated grace poole and wrought havoc in thornfield hall.
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.
But one night the crazy woman in the attic slipped past an inebriated grace poole and wrought havoc in thornfield hall.
The crazy lady in the attic welcomes you.
Rochester dragged his insane bride back to the attic and bound her to a chair with rope until the madness passed.
Well as it turns out the crazy old lady in the attic is not a novel but a novelette 15k words and it was a good read it was not a thriller it was a bit of drama and a telling of things that had happened in the past which had been totally oblivious to the young girl who grew up there.
Mason who eventually becomes the female protagonist s husband.
In the 700 page text gilbert and gubar use the figure of bertha mason as the so called madwoman in the attic to make an argument about perceptions toward female literary characters during the time period.
When mattie returns to beacon hill where she grew up to take possession.
Rochester dragged his insane bride back to the attic and bound her to a chair with rope until the madness passed.