How Does Antionette Manipulate Her Insanity

Before 1857 divorces were extremely rare, very expensive, and were only granted through a private act by Parliament. Along with divorces being very rare and very expensive, you could not divorce someone because of adultery, cruelty, or desertion. Bertha did try commit cruelty towards Rochester as she tried to bite him. Now you could also say that she was guilty of desertion due to her mental illness, but you could also say Rochester committed desertion as he has her locked up in her room and hired Grace Poole to make sure Bertha doesn’t disturb the rest of the house. You could probably make the better argument that Bertha would have better grounds for divorcing Rochester, but due to her mental illness and it being before 1857 it would be nearly impossible for her to divorce

Jane develops a *find quote about jane thinking her crush on Rochester is childlike* but is morally derailed when it is revealed that Mr. Rochester has been hiding his feral wife in the attic. This presents Jane with the arduous decision of choosing to stay with her love or to leave in the night. Jane chooses the latter the author, Emily Brontë writes, ***find quote**. Though this must have been a difficult decision, Jane choose, out of her selfless nature, to pursue an uncertain and dangerous path just to preserve a principled world. This is not only an impressive response when she was tested but it is a display of feminism.

As we walk into the smaller and less formal entrance to the drawing room, holding mademoiselle’s hand, the clock strikes, shocking me. I glance up seeing that it is now eleven o’clock, well past my usual bedtime. As my eyes wander around the room I do not know whether to be excited or nervous that, finally, I can meet these people known as Monsieur Rochester’s friends. As I look around, I am soon disappointed to see all the guests sitting down at dinner in the adjacent room.

Rochester's first interaction was when Mr. Rochester fell off his horse and Jane helped him in the woods. This might foretell that Jane is going to help Mr. Rochester again when he has troubles and need help getting through them. Then we they meet at the house, he kind of ignored Jane and he was “left alone” and “did not take his eyes off from the group of the dog and child (Bronte 175), however after he asked Jane to sit down, he immediately started acting rude and impolite. Jane felt that this was completely normal, and if he did otherwise, she would be shocked. Then Mr. Rochester deems interested in Jane because of the way she answers all his questions.

Finally, the details about society show that Jane recognizes the standards of her victorian society and needs to abide by them. After Jane had thought awhile, she no longer “felt justified in judging” Mr. Rochester and Blanche for “acting in conformity to ideas and principles instilled into them.” Though Jane wishes to be loved by Mr. Rochester, she comes to the realization that rich men do not marry lower-class women in her

Both characters, venturing out of their gender roles, find ways to compliment and figure out who the other person really is, and, in the end, a burgeoning love fully blooms. When examining the gender roles of Mr. Rochester and Jane, both are a blend of each and life seems better when conventional gender roles are forgotten. In Rochester and Jane’s first meeting, the two begin to show their blended gender roles immediately. Rochester is first described as having a “dark face” with “stern features”, with a complexion that seems, “ireful and thwarted” (146).

Rochester to act in questionable ways towards his relationship with Jane, and affects Jane’s life and her relationship with Mr. Rochester. Prior to meeting Jane, Mr. Rochester got tricked into marrying an insane woman, and the effects of that relationship on Mr. Rochester causes issues involving trust and secrecy surrounding his and Jane’s relationship. At Jane and Edward’s wedding, Mr. Mason interrupts the wedding and accuses Mr. Rochester of already having a currently living wife, and although at first he tries to deny it, he then admits that he has “been married: and the woman to whom I was married lives!... I daresay you have many a time inclined your ear to gossip about the mysterious lunatic kept there under watch and ward.” (Brontë 296).

The tactics he employs to get his way also provide insight into a major theme of the novel. The major motive for all of Mr. Rochester’s deception was to win Jane’s heart so he could marry her. He is shown to be very intuitive

Everything that happens in this novel is purposeful and leads towards Antoinette’s final moments. Despite the cause of Antoinette’s madness not being confirmed beyond a doubt there are many factors that may have played a role in this. Therefore no detail no matter how small should be forgotten, for example the constant neglect she received from her mother, which most likely made

Rochester was a major influence on Jane as this was a critical time she was maturing, yet she did not let him get in the way of her work. The work that was expected of her what always her top priority, Rochester was her second. “I believe he is of mine;—I am sure he is,—I feel akin to him,—I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him” (Bronte 266). The relationship between Rochester and Jane was undeniable.

Rochester. When she first came to Thornfield Hall her place was still respected and treated of that as a governess. This is shown in chapter thirteen when Mr. Rochester is sitting on the couch in the drawing-room with Adele petting Pilot the dog, “Mr. Rochester must have been aware of the entrance of Mrs. Fairfax and myself; but it appeared he was not in the mood to notice us, for he never lifted his head as we approached” (page 122). It was not long after this that Mr. Rochester changes in character and attitude towards her that causes her confusion of feelings and the affect the resolvve of her class which is shown in chapter 15 by narration, “The ease of her manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew mw to him. I felt at times as if he were my relation, rather than my master: yet he was imperios sometimes still; but I did not mind that; I saw it was his way” (page 149).

Rochester are apparent through their shared struggles and emotional misgiving. Likewise, considering both of her parental figures were not wholly present, Antoinette suffers great loneliness and feelings of being out of place. In furtherance, along with her father dying at a very young age and being shunned by the former slaves who held an indelible grudge against her family, her mother Annette, grew very cold and distant towards her as a result of her mental issues and grief regarding her ailing son, Pierre, and thus Antoinette was all but abandoned by all except from her housemaid Christophine, who at times acted as a motherly figure. Due her solitude, Antoinette creates a lonely world for herself to exist in, in which a wall is built in order to protect herself from experiences which could mimic her past of pain and

Their feelings for Rochester creates drama and tension, their personalities makes us go insane, and their backgrounds are as different as can be. Both women, their personalities, their backgrounds, their appearance, and other differences, play a vital role in the novel, Jane

In Wide Sargasso Sea, it is Daniel Cosway—in his first letter—that informs Rochester that Antoinette’s family suffers from madness. Daniel writes, ‘There is madness in that family. Old Cosway die raving like his father before him’ and further writes about Mrs Cosway’s descent into madness, and that Antoinette is showing the same symptoms (Part Two, 58-59). Depending on the perspective, this could be seen as something Rochester echoes in Jane Eyre, ‘Bertha Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family;—idiots and maniacs of three generations!’ (249).

- Edward is an economically independent man with a favorable status and influential connections still looking for a profitable match. Jane will be the one in charge to unmask him to the audience: “I saw he was going to marry her [Blanche Ingram] for family, perhaps political reasons, because her rank and connections suited him” (Brontë 205) This manner of conduct converts Mr. Rochester from a hero into a villain, a perpetrator and “his project of