The Interrupted Wedding and Bertha Revealed

From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The wedding ceremony is halted by the revelation that Rochester is already married to Bertha Mason, whom he then displays in the attic.
Chapter 26

Briggs declares the impediment. Rochester takes the wedding party to the third-story room where Bertha appears: "What it was, whether beast or human being, one could not, at first sight, tell." One of the most controversial passages, central to postcolonial readings (Gilbert and Gubar; Spivak; Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea).

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