Essays about: "Bertha Mason"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Bertha Mason.

  1. 1. Disrupting Dominant Discourses: : Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get Out

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Nimrod Numan; [2023]
    Keywords : Jane Eyre; Get Out; Dominant discourses; Othering; Gothic; Hybridity; Double Consciousness; White Privilege; Racial Performance; Visual metaphor.;

    Abstract : This study examines the theme of hybridity in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. Both the narrative text in the novel and the script with visual elements of the film use the concept of hybridity through Gothic motifs: a mad non-white woman in the attic in Jane Eyre and a psychological place in Get Out, where members of a white family hypnotise black people in order to exploit their physical capabilities. READ MORE

  3. 2. Male Patriarchy and "Othering" : Brave New World from a Postcolonial and Feminist Perspective

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Author : Jonny Gebara; [2021]
    Keywords : Brave New World; Postcolonialism; Orientalism; Othering; Feminism ;

    Abstract : This paper aims to show how Brave New World, a dystopia by Aldous Huxley, has strong postcolonial traces within it. Edward Said's concept of Orientalism and Gayatri Spivak's analyses of Bertha Mason, the fictional representation of the colonial female subject in nineteenth-century English literature, tie up the similarities in how the Reservation and Linda are portrayed within the book. READ MORE

  4. 3. Postcolonialism - 'Other' and Madness in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea : The Mad World of Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason and Antoinette Cosway

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Therese Heikinniemi-Sandstedt; [2019]
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  5. 4. How to Identify a Bad Woman: A Study of Charlotte Brontë’s Bertha Mason and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca de Winter

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Isabella Silbo; [2019]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

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  6. 5. Mad or Misunderstood? A Study of the Different Portrayals of Mr. Rochester's First Wife in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Hedda Törntorp; [2018]
    Keywords : Biographical Criticism. Historical Criticism. Psychology. Madness. Post- Colonialism. 19th century literature. 20th century literature. Bertha Mason. Antoinette Cosway.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Jane Eyre (1847), written by Charlotte Brontë, remains a classic, 170 years later. Mr. Rochester’s secret wife locked away in an attic, Bertha Mason, is the antagonist in the novel. However, in Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) written by Jean Rhys around a century later, the character has been rewritten as Antoinette Cosway. READ MORE