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Essay on Mad Woman in the Attic

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Essay on Mad Woman in the Attic

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Running head: MOVIE REVIEWMovie reviewName of the studentName of the universityAuthor note
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1MOVIE REVIEWThe Victorian era has witnessed a lot of remarkable changes in the thought process offemale writers. The position of the women was challenged and they were analyzed from adifferent of view. It was first time seen after the romantic age that the patriarchal society wastargeted and a new revolution came into being which is known as the feminist revolution. Therage of feminism came as a blow to the patriarchal society. The contributors of the revolutionwere eminent feminist writers like Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley, EmilyBronte, George Eliot and many other female writers. The essay majorly consists of thecomparison of Jane Eyre with The Mad woman in the Attic. Mad Woman in the Attic waswritten by Gilbert and Gubar. This piece was the outcome of the inspiration of the characterof Bertha Mason by Charlotte Bronte. Both the movies were the adaptation of the novels. Themovies have portrayed a good picture of the novels. The stereotypical thought of treating thewoman was altered in the movie. The character of the woman in the Mad Woman in the Atticwas in line with the character of Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre. The feminist point of view washighlighted in the movie. The similarity in the movie, the mad woman in the attic and Jane Eyre, lies in thesimilarity of the character of Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre. The comparison lies in the fact thatboth the characters are treated as an insane character. The character of Bertha Mason in theJane Eyre and Mad Woman in the Attic the protagonist has been treated as the typicalVictorian-era women who are found to be relatable with every woman who has been viewedby some other woman who has served as the emblem of early feminist characterizations. Themost remarkable character in both the movies is Bertha Mason. She is also known as the mostproblematic character. She is the first wife of Rochester who is the male protagonist of theplay. Within the entire time period of the movie no special account of herself was found. Hermadness was evident in the movie. Her madness was the primary evident when her husbandRochester brought her back to England (Schulz and Youn 2016). It was then that her
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2MOVIE REVIEWcondition started getting deteriorated. The viewers get to see her in the worst form when hervoice was less heard and she found to express herself through her rebellious actions. In theinitial part of the movie she is audible only through her strange laughs and screams andincomprehensive babbling. She is made visible in the movie only in term of ghostlyapparitions. There was one instance in the movie where she was lying on the bed and shegazed at Jane with a ghostly look. She attempted to set fire on Rochester`s bed. Berthaappears in the novel in the later half. The truth about her madness was revealed in the latterhalf of the movie. The sight of Bertha comes into the picture when the marriage of Rochesterand Jane was stopped by Bertha. The only direct sight of Bertha comes into the picture whenthe second marriage of Rochester and Jane was about to occur (Poore 2016). There is a difference between being insane and mad. Charlotte Bronte portrayedBertha as an insane woman in her novel. In the movie Bertha Mason was an insane lady whowas not in her senses. In the movie, the Mad Woman in the Attic, the protagonist wasportrayed as a mad woman. The fine line between mad and insane was mixed. The reasonbehind this was the background of the age that was the nineteenth century. The aspects of theVictorian age were prevalent in both the movies. Bertha was portrayed as the burden ofRochester. This was the common trait of the Victorian age (Johnson 2014). The revolt ofBertha signified the revolt of the female writers. The uprising of the female writers signifiedtheir revolt against the patriarchal society through their writings. The movie showcases theentire scenario of the Victorian era. The concept of sanity, insanity is prevalent in the movie.Bertha is placed in the both the movies in the position insane. In mad women in the attic, sheis placed in the position of a mad woman. In the latter movie she is dysfunctional andbiologically stated as a mad woman. She has been portrayed as a mad and ghostly womanwhose actions are like a ghost and this add up to the gothic feature of the movie. The gothicfeature has been portrayed in both the movies (Verheul and Hartmann 2016). However
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