Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre. You say you never heard of a Mrs.

. Rochester at the house up yonder, Wood; but I daresay you have many a time inclined your ear to gossip about the mysterious lunatic kept there under watch and ward. Some have whispered to you that she is my bastard half-sister: some, my cast-off mistress. I now inform you that she is my wife, whom I married fifteen years ago,Bertha Mason by name; sister of this resolute personage, who is now, with his quivering limbs and white cheeks, showing you what a stout heart men may bear. Cheer up, Dick!never fear me!Id almost as soon strike a woman as you. Bertha Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family; idiots and maniacs through three generations! In Jane Eyre, Bront fabricates one of the most capricious, crazy, and dismal monsters in literature: Bertha Mason. She wears an aura composed of enthralling beauty, cognitive impairment, and raging insanity, all merged into a suppressed role that the reader can only pity. As her personality crumbles into a vulgar state toward the first four years of her marriage to Mr. Rochester, her husband discovers that she "came of a mad family; idiots and maniacs through three generations. As a prisoner, Bertha loses first her status as wife, her place in her own home, and her humanity. Bront depicts Bertha's mental derangement as beyond the bounds of sympathy. Imprisonment distills Berthas fervent lust for violence. Outsmarting Grace Poole, she sneaks to the room of her husband's intended, who sleeps fitfully on the night before the bigamous wedding. Bertha rips the veil, which discloses to the reader the truth about Rochester's moodiness and the shrieks in the night that disrupt Jane's contentment. "What it was, whether beast or human being, one could not, at first sight, tell: it grovelled, seemingly, on all fours; it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered with clothing, and a quantity of dark, grizzled hair, wild as a mane, hid its head and face. Bronte describing Bertha When Bertha is fully revealed as the truth that will not die, she is finished off in a fire that cleanses and consumes the property of Rochester. According to an eyewitness at the Rochester Arms, Bertha is the woman who set the fire and then leapt from far above to her death on the pavement. Berthas self-sacrifice implies that the Victorian female refuses to suffer in silence. JANE EYRE. Jane becomes a woman at Thornfield; the transition to adulthood is the starlight of this