![]() ![]() Her well-meaning brother visits, and he does stop her husband marrying someone else, but he barely raises an objection to her imprisonment.Īnd her husband’s heart is totally closed against her. And she knows she can’t rely on anyone else. Of course she breaks into the bedroom of the shameless man-stealing hussy he is planning to marry and tears up her veil. Why should her husband lock her in an attic, while he flirts with other women right in her own house? Of course she wrestles him. She’s certainly villainised – she’s called a “clothed hyena”, a “tigress”, a “figure”, “some strange wild animal”, a “goblin”, a “vampire”, a “demon”, even, simply and inhumanly, “it”.īut this furious woman has a point. “She sucked the blood: she said she’d drain my heart,” he says, haemorrhaging and horrified. ![]() She does bad things, like setting fire to Mr Rochester’s bed, ripping up Jane’s wedding veil and attacking her brother. Charlotte Brontë does give her a classic villainess’s evil laugh – Jane hears it echoing around Thornfield Hall in the dead of night, “demoniac” and “strange” – and her attic is a sort of lair. I don’t know if Jane Eyre’s Bertha Rochester really is a baddie. ![]()
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