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PB : The text will therefore examine in which ways the oscillation between freedom and
prison is made manifest in this extract
Window = escape = liberty free but she cannot see (like a tentation but a frustration)
Window + door = espace place liberty
Grace = grâce, Bertha considers that the name grace is not adapted to her because she is not a
good person
In thorn eld they don’t want to call Bertha by his real name : Antoinette, like if they dehumanize
her.
She is not important and his name doesn’t matter
The name Antoinette represents the healthy, free, beautiful side and her normal, happy life before
she went mad
No looking glass as if her identity doesn’t matter = she is a ghost she disappears
identity instability, she doesn't even know who she is anymore because of where she is, her
identity disappears
Whispering = his life is like a nightmare or a dream, all strange and not real
In the night = she escapes strategy
I) An urge to escape
II) the contrast between a prosperous dream life and a hellish life without freedom
III) The restriction of liberty for the woman in the nineteenth century