...they struggled. She was a big woman, in stature almost equaling her husband, and corpulent besides : t, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not...to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tran well- pi anted blow ; • but he would not stride : he would only wrestle. At last he mastered her...

...they struggled. She was a big woman, in stature almost equalling her husband, and corpulent besides : she showed virile force in the contest — more than...bound her to a chair. The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells, and the most convulsive plunges. Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators...

...they struggled. She was a big woman, in stature almost equaling her husband, and corpulent besides: she showed virile force in the contest — more than...bound her to a chair. The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells and the most convulsive plunges. Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators:...

...they struggled. She was a big woman, in stature almost equaling her husband, and corpulent besides: she showed virile force in the contest — more than...bound her to a chair. The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells and the most convulsive plunges. Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators:...

...they struggled. She was a big woman, in stature almost equaling her husband, and corpulent besides: she showed virile force in the contest — more than...bound her to a chair. The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells and the most convulsive plunges. Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators:...

...they struggled. She was a big woman, in stature almost equaling her husband, and corpulent besides : she showed virile force in the contest — more than...bound her to a chair. The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells and the most convulsive plunges. Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators...

...they struggled. She was a big woman, in stature almost equalling her husband, and corpulent besides : she showed virile force in the contest — more than...bound her to a chair. The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells, and the most convulsive plunges. Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators...

...lunatic sprang and grappled his throat viciously, and laid her teeth to his cheek: they struggled. ... At last he mastered her arms; Grace Poole gave him...bound her to a chair. The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells, and the most convulsive plunges. Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators:...

...Bronte notes that she was "a big woman, in stature almost equalling her husband, and corpulent besides: she showed virile force in the contest — more than...once she almost throttled him, athletic as he was" (ch. 26). In this scene, moreover, as in her earlier attack on her brother Richard, Bertha bites "like...

...sensibly appalled by Bertha Mason's violence, is also seemingly impressed by Rochester's self-control: "He could have settled her with a well-planted blow; but he would not strike: he would only wrestle" (321). Gilbert and Gubar's analysis of the Janus-faced angel in the house thus invites readers to pay...