Analysis Of Bertha In Jane Eyre

This wallpaper is a shade of yellow which the she first finds repulsive and horrible and then as she goes ‘mad’ she finds what used to be terrible, which is the very wallpaper itself, a very interesting and almost riveting aspect of her own personal hell. When placed in a historical context this personal hell is the confinement women felt when it came to the expression of their very own intelligent thoughts and ideas. On this yellow wallpaper she eventually deciphers an imprisoned woman whom she actually tries to ‘set free’ by peeling the paper off the wall with her very own fingers until her hands are bloody.

The connection between the narrator and delusion is established with the delusion being the reflection of the narrator, herself. The women behind the patterns are illustrated as a symbol for the generally oppressed women in our world, as she states, “The woman behind shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one”. The “crawling” of the women illustrates the stereotypical fragility and insignificance, since “crawling”is associated with a child and a bug’s efforts to secure itself safety within a corner. In the phrase, “ the pattern strangles them off and turns them upside down, and makes their eyes white!”

As this progresses, the woman starts to go mad from ignorance and starts to believe there is someone behind the Wallpaper. In her room, the narrator starts to obsess over the Wallpaper. The Wallpaper symbolizes women starting to realize how unfair they were treated and how responded to this. As the women’s illness keeps getting subdued by her husband, she starts to go mad and the wallpaper demonstrates this. In the third entry of her diary she says, “Of

3. As the story reaches a close, the descriptions of the wallpaper in the narrator 's bedroom become less realistic and start to mirror the narrator 's deteriorating mental state. The yellow color of the wallpaper isn 't as concerning to the narrator as the "yellow smell" (203) and the "many women behind" (203) it. She believes that the wallpaper "strangles them off" (203) so that the women can 't escape. In reality, the only woman the wallpaper is trapping is the narrator.

The governess is insane because she is the only person at Bly to witness the ghosts of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. During her employment, the Governess claims to experience several ghostly interactions, however no one else could relate to her sightings. For example, after claiming to see two ghosts, the Governess confides in Mrs. Grose and later says “she herself had seen nothing, not the shadow of a shadow, and nobody in the house but the governess was in the governess’s plight,” (James 24). Mrs. Grose is eliminated as a witness and cannot argue if the paranormal activity at Bly was real. Since no one can support the governess’s claims, then presumably, they were hallucinated by

Revelation, by Flannery O’Connor is a short story where the main character includes the self righteous character named Ruby Turpin. Revelation represents violence and Mrs.Turpin is the stories character who suffers from this. One day while Mrs.Turpin waits in the doctor's waiting room amongst others, a young girl by the name of Mary Grace, gives Ruby the verbal threat of telling her to go back to hell where she came from and calling her an old wart hog. Hurt by this, Ruby decides to leave. Later on throughout the day, her anger escalates from Mary Grace to now being angry at God.

Both Mayella Ewell and Curley’s Wife have similarities that facilitate the social injustice they both represent. First, both Mayella and Curley’s wife 's are isolated and lonely. They both are also alienated and avoided by everyone else in their communities and it has taken a toll on them. They both have resulted to abusing the powers they had, often ruining lives with those powers they had. Another similarity is they both have no control over their own lives.

“-was that SCARLET LETTER, so fantastically embroidered and illuminate upon her bosom. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.” (Hawthorne 51). This means that Hester’s Scarlet Letter is made beautifully but it makes her isolated from the townspeople. She is so guilty from her sin and judged from the people of the

Stella is resentful and angry. She does not try to escape the reality she is faced with but allows it to negatively affect her attitude towards her sister and her mother. For example Ozick explains “Then Stella took the shawl away and made Magda die. Afterward Stella said: ”I was cold.” And Afterward she was always cold, always.

The narrator is stuck in a single room throughout the entire plot. Stuck with the gaudy, garish, yellow wallpaper that not only traps her body, but her mind as well. Her environment is very prison-like, and she becomes just captivated with the wallpaper which seems to be the only thing she was allowed to think about. Viewing the setting as a trap that holds women to their domestic life is very plausible seeing that she hated it at first and then the moment she destroyed the wallpaper, the gender roles between the protagonist and John were switched. Her and the women were free from their domestic lives that society holds them to.

Being immoral is someone who does not pass the standards of proper conduct. Bertha Mason falls in the category as being immoral due to her strange actions. In the viewing of chapter 11, Jane Eyre is in Thornfield Hall and she hears something as she is leaving the third floor with Mrs. Fairfax. Jane states, “While I paced softly on, the last sound I expected to hear in so still a region, a laugh, struck my ear. It was a curious laugh; distinct, formal, mirthless.

It becomes hard to recognize her as the story progresses, sleepwalking through the castle and constantly rubbing her hands as she attempts to remove the innocent blood shed on her hands driven by her guilt-ridden mind. Lady Macbeth is unable to surpass the evil she has set on herself and in the end; the guilt she prayed against became her worst enemies. She was beyond repair and it lead to her suicide. Furthermore, in the yellow wallpaper the protagonist becomes mentally ill for being locked in a room deprived of life. The majority of the story takes place in a room which only induces pain deep within herself evoking negative mental thoughts.

Pearl is an Impish child that people believe to be the impish devil’s spawn. She is the sole company of the scarlet letter’s host, her mother Hester. She is the sole company of Hester, who is her mother and the scarlet letter’s host. Both Hester and Pearl are alienated from their community due to Hester’s sin and are treated with hostile when Hester first became an adulterer. But as time passes, the clear line of a sin and respect begin to blur.

He goes off and sleeps with other women. Bertha who seems fully aware of the situation between Rochester reacts with anger, making her seem even more insane. Rochester took her mother’s affliction to have rubbed off on Bertha. According to him Bertha had become sexually

The story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman deals with the narrator’s insanity as she identifies herself completely with the woman in the wallpaper. This made her believe that both she and the women have liberated themselves from masculine oppression by tearing out the domesticated prisoner in the wallpaper. Also, with the narrator being diagnosed with postpartum depression after her pregnancy, she finds herself isolated from society under the treatment of her husband who is a doctor and prescribes her not to do any form of duty/work. However, she is not the main reason to blame for her insanity because she had no chance of expressing herself but rather doing what her doctor “husband” says which lead to her inner destruction.