[Jane Eyre] The mad woman in the attic is reborn

Bertha Mason

She is the original wife of the hero Rochester in "Jane Eyre".As for who is the heroine of this world famous book, I believe that anyone on the main road will know it. The title of the book is called Jane Eyre, so of course it is Jane Eyre! !

However, instead of talking about Jane Eyre today, let's talk about Bertha Mason.

Oh, maybe you will find it strange, she is the crazy woman who was locked in the attic of Thornfield Manor for four years, a woman who lived in Rochester's mouth.

But whether she is a crazy woman or not, we will talk about it later.

Bertha does four things in the book, the first is to set fire to Rochester's curtains; the second is to stab her brother with a bayonet; Four are also climactic events in which Bertha burns down the entire Thornfield estate***, blinding Rochester and losing an arm.

It really looks like something a crazy woman would do.

Bertha hated Rochester, and set fire to the curtain, trying to burn the man who had failed her all her youth.He stabbed his younger brother because he hated him and his family to design a scam and trap himself in this unfortunate marriage.Tore up Jane Eyre's wedding dress because she hated the person who robbed her husband and stopped this immoral marriage.The last big fire completely burned down the cage that had raped her for four years.

There are not many things to do, but everything is targeted.

Crazy maybe, but he knew exactly what he wanted to do.

The description of Bertha is all in Rochester's one-sided dictation:

"Her aspirations disgust me. Her mind is vulgar, vulgar, and narrow. It is strange that she can't lead to any higher level or any wider realm."

"Her family wanted to catch me because I came from a famous family... She tried everything to please me and tried her best to show off her beauty and talent to please me. The men in her social circle seemed to love her and envy me. I It got me carried away, it aroused me, and my senses were aroused. I thought I was in love with her, out of childishness and inexperience."

"Her relatives encouraged me, rivals provoked me, and she seduced me, so that I got married almost without knowing it myself."

"I never loved her, never respected her, never even knew her."

"I wonder if there is any virtue in her nature..."

Oh, after reading this author, I just want to say, Mr. Rochester, are you really so stupid? ? ?In a hurry to save the heroine who was about to leave the manor, you made yourself so miserable?

Brother, you are also the hero after all! !

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After so many years of bitterness, don’t readers feel that these words are all generalizations. What did Bertha, a crazy woman, do to make you think she is vulgar and vulgar?You should mention one or two specific things.

Speaking of it.

Let's talk about the time when Rochester and Bertha were married.

Rochester was the youngest son of the family. According to the British law at the time, he had no inheritance rights, and his father distributed all his property to his elder brother. However, his father kindly arranged a good marriage for Rochester.

In Rochester's own narrative, Bertha Mason is a well-known beauty in Spanish City, and he himself is indeed in love with Bertha's beauty.

So, under a calculation between the two parties, the beautiful Bertha married Rochester romantically with a dowry of [-] pounds.

Oh, maybe you will say, isn't it only [-] pounds, is the handsome and affectionate male pig's foot the kind of person who sacrifices his life's happiness for money? ? ?

Oh.

By the way, let's digress here and explain in detail what the concept of [-] pounds is.

The heroine in the article came to Thornfield Manor to work as a tutor, and her annual salary was fifteen pounds.

According to the purchasing power of the British pound in the 7.3th century, let’s do the math. One pound is about 2800 grams of pure gold. According to the international gold price, one pound is about [-] yuan in Renminbi, and thirty thousand pounds is... (Oh, let the author Bacteria pick up the calculator and calculate)

Hmm... about 400 million renminbi.

Oh, maybe some readers will say, isn't it just more than 400 million renminbi! !Our hero's true love is worth these two pieces of money? ?

Bad money...well, bad money.

Let's turn to the matter of the British pound first, and continue to analyze it downward.

Rochester and Bertha's marriage may have been happy at the beginning, but when Rochester's father and brother passed away one after another, he inherited all the inheritance.

By the way, he also reluctantly inherited the dowry money of 400 million yuan.

Well, then, logically, Bertha went mad.

Yikesi Qsimi? ?

Mr. Rochester, are you sure things are so coincidental?

Bertha is imprisoned in the attic of the dark Thornfield Manor. Rochester travels all day because of depression, and hardly returns to the manor before the arrival of the heroine Jane Eyre.

Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention that our great and affectionate Rochester hero also has a French dancer lover~

Of course, the male protagonist is not a flirtatious young man, isn't that what he said? ?

In Britain in the [-]th century, women had almost no status. Independent new women like Jane Eyre are highly praised by the works and the current theme.

Naturally, although Jane Eyre and the hero have always stood on the moral high ground of the novel, from this perspective, this is an inspirational love story worthy of praise.There is no denying that there is something wrong with the moral high ground. Sometimes, works need this kind of morality to achieve the sublimation of the theme.

Bertha Mason, on the contrary, has been in an immoral situation.

But I want to ask, what did Bertha do wrong?

I don’t want to criticize anything here, and I also admire women like Jane Eyre, especially when she knew that Rochester had a wife, and resolutely left the manor and Rochester to insist on herself.

But the story is a story after all, and it needs a happy ending, but I want to say that Rochester is not worthy, he is not worthy of such a good Jane Eyre.

Having said so much, I just want to say one thing.

If I were Bertha, I would use a bomb to blow Rochester into ashes and slag! ! !

[This is my original intention for writing this article. Next, I will start the main text. The protagonist is of course Bertha. As for the male protagonist, let’s keep it a mystery.In addition, let me clear the mine, because of the needs of the plot, there may be very little plot in the original work. After all, Bertha has not played a few times, and highlight!Fans of the original CP are cautious! ! ! 】