Everyone has secrets and in the novel Jane Eyre by, Charlotte Bronte we see how a hidden past disrupts the very future of Jane’s life. Mr. Rochester has made his fair share of mistakes in his life and one of them being keeping a dark past locked and caged up. He literally did have his past subdued in a prison like manor because he kept his wife Bertha Mason locked on the third floor of the Thornfield household. We are introduced to Bertha Mason when Mr. Rochester goes on to tell Jane of his past. Mr. Rochester’s father didn’t want to divide his property and wealth so he left the entire estate to his other son Rowland. Mr. Rochester’s father sent him to Jamaica was he would be expected to marry Bertha Mason. To inherit a large fortune of 30,000 pounds Mr. Rochester would wed Bertha a lovely Creole woman who was notorious for her beauty in her hometown. Mr. Rochester would take all the necessary steps of courting her. Wasn’t long before he professed his love for her, they got engaged and married each soon after. They lived together in Jamaica for a time before Mr. Rochester would slowly see her true nature. The descendents of the Mason family had suffered from cases of mental diseases which were past down to future generations. Bertha’s mother herself was afflicted with the same mental disabilities and was eventually put into an insane asylum were she would remain. Bertha inherited the bad gens herself, but she doesn’t show the reader her true side until she sprung into one of her moods and caught an episode. Mr. Rochester soon finds out the family had known cases of this tragic behavior and as time goes on and he soon acquires Thornfield as his own and moves back to his home. Bertha at his side but not for long, she is put on the t... ... middle of paper ... ... her. Jane hasn’t gotten a true break yet were she can sit back and just enjoy life. Bertha was one of the causes of her disappointments like she has experienced in the past because he basically ruined Jane’s wedding to Mr. Rochester. How one woman could single handedly alter the lives of multiple people is very interesting and we see how Charlotte Bronte uses Bertha Mason as a vessel of relapse for Jane. Before Jane can break free once more and take her own course she had to be devastated once more and by Bertha who not only had 95% cause to ruining Jane’s wedding but also burning Thornfield to the ground. Mr. Rochester past, which he kept with him unto his present, manages to spring forth and wreck havoc as it’s done in the past and the hidden secret of Bertha Mason impacts Jane’s life significantly to the point where it changes order of events to come in her life.
To begin, when Mr. Rochester secretly returns to Thornfield as a gypsy he tells many fortunes but when the secret comes out there is nothing but distrust for him. For example, when Jane finds out that Mr. Rochester was the gypsy, and Mr. Rochester asks if she can forgive him for his trick, she says ¨[She] cannot tell till [she] [has] thought it all over. … [she] shall try to forgive [him]; but it was not right¨ (Bronte 213). This shows that Jane had lost some trust in her beloved Rochester by such a simple joke and it was that, the secret had been kept from her, that makes Jane really wonder if she could tru...
anybody in his family. She always made sure that Louis was fed and that he was not alone.
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The Novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte took a surprising twist when Bertha "Mason" Rochester was introduced. Bertha leaves a traumatizing impression on Jane’s conscious. However, this particular misfortunate event was insidiously accumulating prior to Jane’s arrival at Thornfield. Through Bertha, the potential alternative dark turn of events of Jane’s past are realized, thus bringing Jane closer to finding herself.
Mrs Reed keeps Jane only because of a promise she made to her husband on his deathbed. This abuse and neglect from her relatives forces Jane to be resentful and full of hatred. Later on Jane begins to stand up for herself. Once Jane begins to rebel to the abuse done by John and Mrs Reed, it is as if an uncontrollable beast had been unleashed inside of her.
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Analyse the methods Charlotte Brontë uses to make the reader empathise with Jane Eyre in the opening chapters. Reflect on how the novel portrays Victorian ideology and relate your analysis to the novel’s literary content.
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Miss Temple's influence carries on with Jane in the rest of the novel or for the rest of her life. Miss Temple provided Jane the idea that she can be an intelligent individual. Although Miss Temple is not a main character in this novel, she is vital to Jane’s personal and emotional development. Throughout eight years of Jane’s life Miss Temple is who aids her to be the person she has always strived to be. One might think her last name (Temple) suggests the value of her existence to Jane.
...nd the re-union of Mr. Rochester and Jane Mr. Rochester can finally be in the relationship he always desired, but at the cost of his hand and eyesight; adding even more to his suffering, but at least now he has his true love to be by his side.
When Rochester informs Jane of the circumstances surrounding his marriage to Bertha, he inadvertently reveals that Bertha’s family so desperately wanted to marry her to a man of suitable status and wealth that Bertha was not necessarily given much choice in her future spouse. Bertha’s family allotted scant time for Rochester and Bertha to spend alone and the audience learns that Bertha showed symptoms of insanity gradually during the course of the first four years of her marriage to Rochester, suggesting that these characteristics emerged only after their union. This lack of time for the couple to interact privately may have been a result of the Masons’ indifference to Bertha’s attachment to her husband, rather than Rochester’s assumption of this being a manipulative measure of concealing any defects. When Rochester restricts Bertha to a hidden room on the third floor of Thornfield, she only gains short moments of freedom when Grace Poole, Bertha’s keeper, falls into a drunken stupor. Rochester locks Bertha as tightly in her secluded room as Jane is continuously locked into her subordinate life, and even in the literal prison of the red room. In this way, Bronte may intend the manic Bertha as an exaggerated distortion of Jane, should she continue to face similar