Defining what is madness and what is considered madness? Is really difficult because what was madness yesterday, is not madness today; and what is madness today, may not be madness tomorrow. With these volatile changes throughout time, it is complicated finding the nature of insanity psychology. Jane Eyre, a novel written in the period of the English Victorianism in 1847 by Charlotte Brontë reflects that any person who adopted an aptitude or attitude outside of the standards of that period was condemned and denominated to be “mad”. The most accurate characterization for the standards of women in that time was having an impeccable moral, being spiritually stimulating, intelligent and impressionably positive, all in the service and favor of men. …show more content…
However, this resulted in different revolutions that changed the way of thinking of many people. This way, in the period of the English Victorianism there were dazzling changes in the social, technological and economical ambit. The same religious controversy, social reformism and political debate that were creating numerous disadvantages in society conducted to a modification in the moral scope. Art and romanticism also form part of the topics mentioned before and they have essential roles in the literature of that period. On another hand, Wide Sargasso Sea, written by Jean Ryhs and published in 1966 is a parallel postcolonial novel derived from Jane Eyre, in other words, Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel. This novel unfolds a few years after Jane Eyre, meaning that it occurred after some of the social, technological and economical changes; as a result of transformation, the moral standards were also altered. Certain things considered madness in the time of Jane Eyre were not madness anymore for the time of Wide Sargasso Sea. This essay will focus on comparing the differences and similarities portrayed in both