Madness Analysis

There are different types of madness, some are genetic and some are environmental. Everyone has outbreaks where they get incredibly frustrated. There’s a line between personality that is on the edge and mental craziness. Mentally crazy people can’t help their condition, it’s genetic and when it 's aggravated it can be unbearable. The way Antoinette and her mother are described restructures the reader’s thought on true madness. Rochester’s wife, Antoinette, has many outbreaks,but her actions lead the reader to wonder. Is she crazy because her mom was crazy or is it because of Rochester exacerbating her condition? Antoinette was mentally crazy based on her behavior, past, and actions. Antoinette’s mother was crazy and locked away because of …show more content…
She was mixed and was looked down upon because of it by everyone.She couldn’t fix or help the fact she was mixed and was judged poorly. Her father was a wealthy slave owner and sympathetic to Antoinette. In that time period, it was very attractive to come from a wealthy family. Antoinette was introduced to Rochester and they were thought to be a perfect match. She fell in love with him quickly and hard. Rochester was having emotional denial with his father because he inherited nothing from him. His financial situation wasn’t the best and he decided to propose to Antoinette. He wasn’t in love with her,but he liked her and thought she was beautiful. Since Antoinette is madly in love with him, she said …show more content…
This is Antoinette’s favorite place since she was a small kid. Rochester is a little skeptical about the place when he arrives to the “honeymoon house”. A group of African American women is standing at the door waiting for them. At the time, he knew nothing about Antoinette or her “crazy” mother. All the African American women look at him strange. A couple of them look at him with sympathy and others look at him with anger. The “honeymoon house” is a beautiful house in a gorgeous location but it’s old. Christophine is one of the servants who works for Antoinette. Christophine tells Rochester that she feels bad for him and tells him the backstory of Antoinette which she was forbidden to do. Rochester gets drunk and rapes Christophine but Antoinette hears them. Antoinette’s mother was raped and one of her servants is having sex with her husband. Antoinette flips out at Rochester for having sex with her servant, Christophine. Rochester is constantly drinking and tells Antoinette he doesn’t like her name. Since her mother, with the same name, was mentally insane and he didn’t enjoy referring to her name. All these things aggravate her condition. As a normal person, she flips out on him for all the things he has done. She wants him to love her as deeply as she loves him. It’s depressing to known the person you married didn’t marry for true love. The action that leads the reader to believe she is mentally crazy is how she