To make reference to the rise of personal responsibility in Victorian England for the care of the sick and insane | |
To represent the shift from the male Gothic villain to the female Gothic villain in the Victorian Gothic novel | |
To make an ironic statement about the point of view and marginalization of the “Other” in Victorian England | |
To represent the expansion of Gothic literary spaces from only subterranean spaces to attics as well |
Why has Bertha been characterized as the “madwoman in the attic” by literary scholars ?