Tag: Bertha
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Narrative control and the monster within: Empowering disability in Jane Eyre
Mary ValloGlastonbury, Connecticut, United States In chapter twenty-five of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Jane tells Rochester that the night before, “a form emerged from the closet” in her room and tried on her wedding veil, ripped the veil apart, and blew out a candle in her face before Jane fainted with fear.1 Although Jane is…