When Bertha began acting like a madwoman in Jamaica, Rochester took her back to Britain, because "a fresh wind from Europe blew across the ocean and rushed in through the open window : the storm broke … and the air became pure … The sweet wind from Europe still whispered among the freshened leaves, and the Atlantic thundered in glorious freedom” (399). country of origin suggests that he believes it is superior to Jamaica, a view that Jean Rhys holds in his 1966 book about Bertha's early life, Wide Sargasso Sea. There is a school of thought that "human identity could be determined by the politics of imperialism" (Lerner 278). If so, it is possible that with the pre-existing racism of the era where Rochester saw Bertha as less of a person due to her heritage, beginning her descent into