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Defined by the Webster’s Dictionary intertextuality means the complex interrelationship between a text and other texts taken as basic of the creation or interpretation of the text. Every author uses intertextuality in their works. This generalization can lea ....

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.... describes Bertha Mason through Mr. Rochester’s speech in the interruption of his wedding with Jane. “Bertha Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family, idiots and maniacs through three generations!”(Brontë). Later, in the same chapter, she is further described as having a “discoloured face”, “a savage face” with “fearful blackened inflation of the features”, “the lips were swelled and black”. Nowhere in the novel she allows “the madwoman in the attic” to have a voice, to explain what may have caused her madness. She shows no pity for her, and neither does the reader feels ....