In this novel rochester s first wife bertha mason has gone mad and is kept locked in an attic.
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It takes its title from bertha.
It s no understatement to say that the madwoman in the attic helped to redefine lit crit in north america and the uk.
A life of feminine submission of contemplative purity is a life of silence a life that has no pen and no story while a life of female rebellion of significant action is a life that must be silenced a life whose monstrous pen tells a terrible story why write wrong if the writing won t right the wrong.
Male sexuality in other words is not just analogically but actually the essence of literary power.
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Just think of all those metaphors.
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For ages folks had been taught to associate writing with masculinity.
But 19th century novels are full of characters like bertha.
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The madwoman in the attic by sandra gilbert and susan gubar is considered a landmark in the history of feminist criticism of nineteenth century women s writing.
The woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination is a 1979 book by sandra gilbert and susan gubar in which they examine victorian literature from a feminist perspective.
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The madwoman in the attic quotes showing 1 2 of 2 a life of feminine submission of contemplative purity is a life of silence a life that has no pen and no story while a life of female rebellion of significant action is a life that must be silenced a life whose monstrous pen tells a terrible story.
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The poet s pen is in some sense even more than figuratively a penis chapter 1 page 4.
However bertha s position as the madwoman in the attic also speaks to larger social questions of femininity and authorship during the victorian period.
In 1979 sandra gilbert and susan gubar made a breakthrough in feminist criticism with their work the madwoman in the attic.
To us bertha mason is the quintessential madwoman in the attic because she was well a madwoman in an attic.
Rochester keeps his first wife locked away in the attic because she just isn t socially acceptable.
