I love, love, LOVED reading this book, I’ve always been a huge fan of gothic and period books, especially class divided romance.
I found it especially interesting for a novel written in 1847 to portray a female lead who doesn’t lose herself to a man but rather explores her desire of marriage (not need of) and finding it then embracing it through her own terms, which brings me to the reoccurring theme of morality and marginalisation.
The madwoman. I have so many questions, was she suffering from some kind of possession or mental illness? What had led her to become that way? Or perhaps, was she just a symbol in order to take home that theme of patriarchal oppression towards women?
by m00beep