Chapter 26
Bertha's description as bestial--"a clothed hyena"--and Rochester's account of her Creole heritage and "intemperate and unchaste" nature.
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From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Bertha Mason has become the focal point of feminist and postcolonial criticism, most famously in Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic and Jean Rhys's response novel.
Chapter 27
Rochester's long narrative of his Jamaican marriage, often cited in postcolonial readings of the novel's imperial unconscious.
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