Rochester and antoinette s marriage takes place and it is where both characters describe their feelings for each other.
Rochester locking antoinette in attic.
It gives readers an alternative view of charlotte brönte s jane eyre written from the perspective of bertha or antoinette as she is known in this novel rochester s mad wife who lives in the attic of thornfield hall.
Bertha through her suicide rejects the confinement that she had been subjected to.
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Antoinette is taken by rochester to his manor in england where she is locked up in a high room and guarded by grace poole.
By putting antoinette in a mirrorless prison alone save for a taciturn guard rochester exacerbates her feeling of disconnection.
He sees antoinette as a source of madness and hopes that by locking her away in england he will be able to put her aside and forget about her.
He has already deprived her of her name calling her bertha and effectively erasing her existence as antoinette.
The third part is once again told mostly by antoinette in england where she is locked away in mr.
As readers we are immediately made nervous by this new name not only do we sense rochester s impending erasure of antoinette but we associate the name bertha with the madwoman he will lock up in the attic of thornfield hall.
At rochester s home in england the servant grace poole watches over antoinette in the attic.
Rochester subsequently in jane eyre locks bertha up to silence her.
While confined antoinette has a tenuous hold on her memory and her sense of self.
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Rochester first entices antoinette to fall in love with him begins to attack her identity by calling her by other names takes a lover basically in front of her and finally labeling her insane by rationalizing it is in her genetic make up.
Without a face she becomes a ghost.
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She dimly remembers the voyage across the sea to england and she vaguely recalls trying to seduce a man to help her escape.
Even in death bertha is seeking only emancipation that has been snatched away from her by locking her up in the attic.
Without a name she does not know what to call herself.
She is described as the violently insane first wife of edward rochester who moved her to thornfield hall and locked her in a room on the third floor.
Rochester s father and brother have since died leaving him to inherit the family s fortune.
