Antoniette Cosway

     In Wide Sargasso Sea, "Bertha Mason" is portrayed as being a false name for Antoinette Cosway. The character of Jane Eyre and Antoinette are portrayed as being similar, independent, vivacious, imaginative, young women with troubled childhoods, educated in religious establishments and looked own by the upper classes. also they both marry Rochester. however Antoinette is more rebellious than Jane and less  mentally stable.
 
      Antoinette is the protagonist in the novel. when the novel begins Antoinette is a lonely young girl growing up in post-emancipation Jamaica. after an escalating series of of violent encounter Antoinette and her family of white creoles are forced to flee from their estate. after that she was forced to a marriage with Rochester. rest of the tale describes her complicated and uncomprehending life with her husband. delusional and paranoid Antoinette awakes from a dream and set out to burn down the house.        
   
         The book purports to tell Antoinette's side of the story as well as Rochester's and detail how she ended up alone and raving in the attic. According to the book, Antoinette's insanity, infidelity, and drunkenness are the result of Rochester's misguided belief that madness is in her blood and that she was part of the scheme to have him married blindly.

Antoinette is a far cry from the conventional female heroins of 19th and 20th century novel, who are often more rational and self restraint.

Olive Schreiner.

Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 – 11 December 1920) was a South African author, and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel ' The Story Of an African Farm' which has been highly acclaimed for the bold manner in which it deals with some of the burning issues of the day, including agnosticism, existential independence, individualism, the professional aspirations of women, and the elemental nature of life on the colonial frontier. In more recent studies she has also been identified as an advocate for those sidelined by the forces of British Imperialism, such as the Afrikaners, and later other South African groups like Blacks, Jews and Indians – to name but a few. Although she showed interest in socialism, pacifism, vegetarianism and feminism amongst other things, her true views escape restrictive categorizations. Her published works and other surviving writings promote implicit values like moderation, friendship and understanding amongst all peoples. Although she may be called a lifelong freethinker, she continued to adhere to the spirit of the Christian Bible and developed a secular version of the worldview of her missionary parents, with mystical elements.
Karel Schoeman, the South African historian and leading authority on Schreiner's life, has written that she was an outstanding figure in a South African context, albeit perhaps not quite the same abroad.

     Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner is her full name. She was the ninth of twelve children born in the missionary society at Wittebergen in the Eastern Cape, near Herschel in South Africa. Her parents are Gottlob Schreiner and Rebecca Lyndall^. She was named after her three older brothers, Oliver (1848–1854), Albert (1843–1843) and Emile (1852–1852), who died before she was born. Her childhood was a harsh one as her father was loving and gentle, though impractical, which led to difficulties for the family; but her mother Rebecca was intent on teaching her children the same restraint and self-discipline that had been a part of her upbringing. Olive received virtually all of her initial education from her mother, who was well-read and gifted.

 Noted works:

• The story of n African Farm, 1883 (as "Ralph Iron")
• Dreams, 1890
• Dream Life and Real Life, 1893
• The Political Situation in Cape Colony, 1895 (with S. C. Cronwright-Schreiner)
• Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, 1897
• An English South African Woman's View of the Situation, a critique on the Transvaal difficulty from the pro-Boer position, 1899
• A Letter on the Jew, 1906
• Closer Union: a Letter on South African Union and the Principles of Government, 1909
• Woman and Labour, 1911
• Thoughts on South Africa, 1923
• Stories, Dreams and Allegories, 1923
• From Man to Man, 1926
• Undine, 1929

Mrs. Bertha mason

         Bertha  Mason is a fictional character in the novel Jane Eyre. it was written by Charlot Bronte.  Bertha Merson is the violently insane first wife of Edward Rochester, locked in the attic.

           Bertha Merson is a complex presence in Jane Eyre. the mystery surrounding Bertha establishes suspense and terror to the plot and atmosphere. further Bertha serves as a remanent and reminder of Rochester's youthful librtinism. she is the great tragedy of Rochester's life. she is the first wife of Rochester and she is the obstacle in Jane's and Rochester's love must overcome. she is the catalyst that proves Jane's moral virtue and Rochester's ultimate redemption.

   Bertha’s family heritage is complex and puts her in a difficult position. She’s half-Creole and half-English, raised in Jamaica among the British aristocrat half of her family, and already not exactly a part of one world or the other. Rochester claims that she was drunken and promiscuous and that her excesses brought on her madness when she was young, but he’s not exactly an objective witness.It’s clear that she and Rochester never really got along and that they hadn’t gotten to know each other at all before they got married. As a result of all this, Bertha spends most of her adult life locked in a room—a few years in a room in Jamaica, and ten years in the attic at Thornfield.

         Bertha is presented as being exotic and unbirdles. she is violent, clearly insane and exhibits an animal nature. however it has been suggested by some critics that Bertha's character runs parallel to that of Jane's with Bertha being a kind of darker double of  her English country part.

       
     Yet Bertha also misinterpreted as symbol. some seen her as  a symbolic representation of trapped Victorian wife. she finds no outlet for her frustration and anxiety. also Berth seem to be the outward manifestation of Jane's interior fire. Berth express the feelings that Jane must keep in check.

Reaction of Naani

 Naani is one of the major character in the story 'Girls' by Mrinal Pande. The story is narrated by the girl itself. So the story leads according to her view. Here I presents Naani as the narrator and her  reaction towards the girl at the end of the story.



Naani as a narrator

         The girl is a naughty girl. she doesn't know how to behave with others. on the day of Ashtami, the great Devi's day she shout with us by saying that 'Iam not to be a kanyakumari, I'm an engine'. she refuses to take the prasad from me.
  Also she asked that ' when you people don't love girls,  why do you pretend to worship them?'. You have to think that, how dare is she to ask this type of question before us.

'Oh God don't you see this'. She is a girl, yet she questioning the rules we follow.

   'Hm ..today's girls doesn't know the importance of  ashtami or the traditional custom'. Oh..Lali is great, how she manages this girl.

    In the last of Ashtami, I distributed all the girls a rupee and quarter. There was no joy to her when I give her that money.

   Yesterday night  there happened an incident.I told them a story. After that I wanted every one to sleep. That time she come near to me to sleep with me. But there was no enough space for her, my boy already lay there. He can't sleep without me. So I suggested her to sleep with her mother. She goes near to her. I think she doesn't like it.

     

A Room Of One's own- Review

            Virginia Woolf''s essay  'A Room Of One's Own' is a landmark in twentieth century feminist thought. it  explores the history of women in literature through an unconventional and highly provocative investigation of the social and material conditions required for the writing of literature. She was born on January 25, 1882, in London. Woolf was educated at home by her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, the author of the Dictionary of English Biography, and she read extensively. Her mother, Julia Duck worth Stephen, was a nurse, who published a book on nursing. Her mother died in 1895, which was the catalyst for Virginia's first mental breakdown. Virginia's sister, Stella, died in 1897; and her father dies in 1904. in the essay Woolf speaks out against the traditional hierarchies. Her essay is a reconstruction and reenactment as well as an argument.

               Virginia Woolf  was giving a lecture on women and fiction. And she tells the audience that she is not sure if the topic should be what women are like, the fiction women write, fiction written about women, or a combination of three. she says that "a women must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction".             she uses the fictional narrator Mary Beton in the essay.

        The central point of A Room of One’s Own is that every woman needs a room of her own—something men are able to enjoy without question. A room of her own would provide a woman with the time and the space to engage in uninterrupted writing time. During Woolf’s time, women rarely enjoyed these luxuries. They remained elusive to women, and, as a result, their art suffered. But Woolf is concerned with more than just the room itself. She uses the room as a symbol for many larger issues, such as privacy, leisure time, and financial independence, each of which is an essential component of the countless inequalities between men and women. Woolf predicts that until these inequalities are rectified, women will remain second-class citizens and their literary achievements will also be branded as such.

Film Review

Kahaani

 Kahaani is one of the blockbuster thriller film produced by Sujay Gosh. Vidya Balan is the protoganist in the film. It was released in the year 2012. The film explores the themes of feminism and motherhood in male dominated society. Vidya Balan act as the character Vidya Venkatesan Bagchi. There have many heroes like Parambrata Chatterjee, Nawazuddhi Siddiqui..etc. If there have many other characters the important and one of the leading role is done by Vidya Balan.
     
       The film goes through the journey of Vidya. Vidya Bagachi is just an ordinary women. She is seven month pregnant. She was a software programmer in London. She came to Kolkata looking for her missing husband Arnab Bagachi. The film begins with a poison attack on Kolkata metro rail compartment killing the passengers on the board. After 2 years Mrs Bagachi comes searching her husband. The film is contains full of twist and turns. It makes the audience the part of it.

            We can't fully avoid other supporting cast, most of whom are Bengalis. Parambrata has an almost similar screen time as Vidya and gives a very good account of himself. He is a find and deserves to be seen more often. Nawazuddin Siddiqui as the Intelligence officer plays his part convincingly and is very believable. So is the man who plays an assassin with smile on his face. Other then them there are close to half a dozen actors playing important characters, including Indraneil Sengupta and none of them ever tries to overshadow the scene by going over the top even once.

 Vidya's character in search of her husband shows fearlessness and patience. Although she becomes what the situation demands her to be. She becomes serious, humor,..according the context. Her acting in the guest house is like that. When Mrs Bagachi being pushed in front of the running metro rail,  it create a huge shock on viewers. only at the end of the film we knows that her pregnancy was a fake. But where acting with pregnancy was marvelous.The encounter with Damiji makes curious and anxiety among spectators. it's surprise to see a pregnant women travels alone in Kolkata. And it is said that she uses the fake pregnancy in order to survive from the major issue women faces. For an Indian women it is not possible to travel alone. She may be the victim of patriarchal society or the victim of man's exploitation. It's sure that the film is women centric. Vidya Balan has got many best actress award for this film's acting. It's rare to get women as the central characters in Indian film industry.