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.
Book crazy wife locked in attic.
Bertha mason rochester s first wife was a beautiful creole woman from jamaica who rochester married years ago before she had a mental breakdown and naturally had to be locked in the attic.
Rhys s novel re imagines brontë s devilish.
Anonymous asked in arts humanities books authors 1 decade ago what is the name of the novel about an man who had a wife that was crazy and he lokced her in the attic.
It is the story of mason from the time of her youth in the caribbean to her unhappy marriage and relocation to england.
But astonishingly this may not have all been fiction.
The madwoman in the attic.
The 1966 parallel novel wide sargasso sea by jean rhys serves as a prequel to brontë s novel.
Charlotte brontë s jane eyre is well known for the shocking discovery of mr rochester s scandalous hidden wife a deranged woman locked away in an attic.
Bertha mason is a fictional character in charlotte brontë s 1847 novel jane eyre.