Jane Eyre: Bertha Mason

Bertha Mason was particularly creepy in my opinion. She kind of got the bad end of this deal though. First off Edward Rochester's dad is a lazy head and decides he doesn't want to split up his will. He doesn't want to just leave his second son on the streets though and finds a rich family in Jamaica for him to marry into. He meets the Mason's and decides they'll do. Bertha is their daughter, whom Edward is to marry. She's pretty and looks like she'll make a suitable wife so they go through with it. She doesn't stay that way for long... soon she is a drunk and begins to loose her sanity like many others in her family, which was a minor detail the Mason's forgot to mention before they married off their daughter. JERKS. I admit, though, that Rochester's actions are not really very agreeable. He hides her in an attic for heavens sake. Is she crawling around on all fours? Yes... Is she maybe a little blood hungry? Possibly... Does she growl and laugh extremely creepily? Yup. Then why the heck is she isolated in this little room for 10 years!? She's not completely crazy though. She's till sane enough to put together that Jane and Rochester are to be married. She even makes a few attempts to clue in Jane that this situation maybe a little fishy. The biggy being she actually comes in Jane's room in the middle of the night and scares her half to death. Bertha was quite scary in my opinion and a bit demented. She was just enough creepy though to make you want to see what happens to her. She is not a person I would want to ever encounter that is for sure.