The story of Bertha Mason, mr. Rochester's first (mad) wife in Jane Eyre, re-told from Bertha's point of view. Her name is actually Antoinette, according to the author Jean Rhys. Antoinette is a sensitive Caribbean young woman who lives not far from Jamaica, with a "mad-made" mother and a col
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The story of Bertha Mason, mr. Rochester's first (mad) wife in Jane Eyre, re-told from Bertha's point of view. Her name is actually Antoinette, according to the author Jean Rhys. Antoinette is a sensitive Caribbean young woman who lives not far from Jamaica, with a "mad-made" mother and a colour of skin that make people think of her as a "white nigger". She has to get married with the young, weak mr. Rochester: he is unable to accept her and her "Otherness", so at first he changes her name "from Antoinette to Marionette then to Bertha, the lattest meaning "necklace", therefore a kind of collar: isnt' this meaningful?); then he refuses to give her freedom but brings her with him to England where she is treated AS SHE WERE mad. A powerful, evocative story that make you think about Self and Otherness, about being women, about prejudices. Everyone who loves Jane Eyre should read this book, to get to know that "there is always another side. Always".
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The story of Bertha Mason, mr. Rochester's first (mad) wife in Jane Eyre, re-told from Bertha's point of view. Her name is actually Antoinette, according to the author Jean Rhys.continue)
Antoinette is a sensitive Caribbean young woman who lives not far from Jamaica, with a "mad-made" mother and a col ... (
The story of Bertha Mason, mr. Rochester's first (mad) wife in Jane Eyre, re-told from Bertha's point of view. Her name is actually Antoinette, according to the author Jean Rhys.
Antoinette is a sensitive Caribbean young woman who lives not far from Jamaica, with a "mad-made" mother and a colour of skin that make people think of her as a "white nigger". She has to get married with the young, weak mr. Rochester: he is unable to accept her and her "Otherness", so at first he changes her name "from Antoinette to Marionette then to Bertha, the lattest meaning "necklace", therefore a kind of collar: isnt' this meaningful?); then he refuses to give her freedom but brings her with him to England where she is treated AS SHE WERE mad.
A powerful, evocative story that make you think about Self and Otherness, about being women, about prejudices. Everyone who loves Jane Eyre should read this book, to get to know that "there is always another side. Always".