Umm, because she's a hot piece of Carribbean ass? At least that's how it was explained to me in The Wide Sargasso Sea. Though, that's a pretty sexist/racist reason to marry someone.
altyronsmaker: There's definitely a bit of "well, what can you expect from those not-English women? Of course they're going to be sexy, and therefore at risk of insanity." There's also a hint that Bertha might be of mixed race, which at that time was even more associated with sexuality and insanity. Which, as we all know, are the same thing anyway.
lunabee34: hey, when you have some time on your hands you'll really be able to appreciate my B7 version where Jane is a mutoid and Rochester is Travis...
I had read 'The Wide Sargasso Sea' in college in a Post-colonial lit class, and in discussing the novel it came out that it was intended to be the prequel to Jane Eyre - taking that hint of Bertha being of mixed race and exploring her life before the Rochesters.
It's been...oh my goodness...um, eight years since I read it though. Yikes. I was being a little too flippant in my original answer to Lunabee.
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Or am I getting my stories mixed up?
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lunabee34: hey, when you have some time on your hands you'll really be able to appreciate my B7 version where Jane is a mutoid and Rochester is Travis...
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It's been...oh my goodness...um, eight years since I read it though. Yikes. I was being a little too flippant in my original answer to Lunabee.
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*grins*