Is this at all a normal way for a wife to treat her husband in these times?Ĥ. What is the difference between the mother and daughter of Wide Sargasso Sea?ģ. What is the difference between Antoinette's mother's insanity and that of Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre?Ģ. "I told you," she said, "I told you what would happen again and again." Her voice broke, but still she screamed, "You would not listen, you sneered at me, you grinning hypocrite, you ought not to live either, you know so much, don't you? Why don't you go out and ask them to let you go? Say how innocent you are. Mason, calling him a fool, a cruel stupid fool. So it was all the more dreadful when she began to scream abuse at Mr. "She left him, she ran away and left him alone to die," said my mother, still whispering. Her irate words to her husband are inappropriate, but it is debatable whether they are warranted, and whether she still has a sense of right and wrong. In this passage, her mother shows a loss of self-control, but this instance could not as easily be construed as insanity as Bertha's lack of self-control in Jane Eyre. In Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason's insanity is hinted to be inherited from her mother. Wide Sargasso Sea is a detailed and intricate portrait of one of Jane Eyre's more one-dimensional characters. The main source of trouble is Rochesters insane first wife, Bertha Mason, a lunatic Creole who is locked in the attic of his country house, Thornfield Hall.
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