MAD WOMAN IN THE ATTIC
1st December, 2018
This should have been my second nuptial night. We should be laughing, giggling and had had a wonderful time of our life. Now, I’m all alone in this dark room, turning off every decorative lamp that I meticulously bought and set up different light in different places that would create a perfect ambience for romantic actions and fierce love-making. I planned to make a chiaroscuro of your naked body by setting up a light in a place which will illuminate your full naked body half-naked because you may feel shy for the first time. How it would have been to be in the warmth of each other in this freezing December cold? I have been also longing for the warmth of love for a long time. But, It’s pitch dark now here, baby. I don’t even want to see myself. Everything is dark now: this room and my life without you; you, like the lights I scrupulously bought, not only illuminated my life but also adorned it aesthetically like the chiaroscuro I planned: illuminated my positives and darkened my flaws. The only wrong I did was concealing the truth about my first marriage. That fellow, Mr. Mason is a gull. He gulled me by getting his mad sister married to me. How I begged you not to believe that fraud. My Lolita, do you not love me as I love you so dearly. You know how ashamed I was? I was in no intention to deceive you. I really love you! Even after planning to marry you I thought I would look after my mad first wife too. You don’t know how much torments I have undergone in my life past, because of her. She could not give me what a wife should give her husband. Nevertheless, I took good care of her. Only after meeting you and fell in love with you, I forgot all my sufferings and thought of dedicating all my life to you, baby. Now, tell me baby did I cheat you? Did I cheat you???
I overheard Rochester’s ranting to his lovely Jane, his Lolita on phone through a peep hole in door of his now-dark room. Oops! I forgot to add a double quotation. So what? Why care about quotation when a big full stop is awaiting soon. That Bastard—how dare he is to call me mad? O how was that, how was that? He did not get what a husband should get from a wife? You know he fucked me to all the satisfaction of his fantasy. Fetish fucker. I, like Anastasia, succumbed to all the desire of this Bastard of a Grey. Now he is bored so goes lusting after other women like a dog. Manacle rings for me and wedding ring for her? I’ll never let that happen. He was too worried about his room being dark and cold, right? I’ll make it brighter and more warmer. And how was that? How was that? “You don’t know how much torments I have undergone in my life past, because of her”. I’ll permanently escape you from the torments of life. I’ll show who this Bertha Mason is! Bertha Mason, a specialist ARSONIST!
“My sister really had a psychological condition” confessed Mr. Mason, Bertha’s Brother as I sat near his death bed and read the above paras in Bertha Mason’s diary. “This entry is the last one she wrote before she burned Rochester and herself that night I stopped your marriage” he said and died. With Bertha’s diary in my hand in the gloomy room of Mr. Mason I’m sitting alone overwhelmed with tears. My poor Rochester!
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Jane Eyre and Mad woman in the attic, the two great books, influenced the author to frame a plot meticulously.
The story narrated from the different perspectives of major characters on the same is bewildering as much as enthralling. Starting from Rochester, the shift of narration runs madly to Bertha whose dialogues are amusingly frightening. Every action of Bertha, the way a mad woman performs, is displayed in the sentences impeccably. When the readers are left ambiguous in the state of whom they can rely on, the author seals the twist at the end with a dying Mason’s confession. How was that! how was that! It was wondrous 👌👌
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Thank you so much bro!😊
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Gleaming in the dark room, this story is illuminated with lights of fancy. Lights that can decorate naked bodies. The desire of lust is sweetly conveyed, whereas the anguish and disappointment in all the characters is also equally meted out in the end. What an intrinsic method to have categorised the characters, taking names from established books ! The element of postmodern writing technique is evident from the beginning, and it keeps it that way so long and so forth, with end tidings. Holding the readers, captives, the narration bludgeoned the previous layers of narration that was intending a certain happening. A very decisive plot that caricatures the grotesque, which in fact will force a critique towards the early books. How did the idea of Rochester/ mason/ Bertha go into the mind of the writer to caricature in a minimalistic plot setting? This question will eventually give appropriation into reading the thought process of the writer than the narrative process. If, how well was the unreliability factor infused, a question, there is no doubt of it in the narration, particularly the one revealed at the end through the confessions from the diary, what precisely will intrigue is the unreliability that forces us from the very thought process of the writer. How much can we rely on this playful writer and his magnanimous thoughts and it’s working. Isn’t the writer a think tank????
Contest status : highly commended…..
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Thank you so much, sir 😊
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