the description portrays Bertha as behaving like a wild animal, emphasizing her lack of restraint and societal norms.The simile comparison to a "strange wild animal" Bertha's behavior is unpredictable, frightening to observers.Bertha's animalistic actions symbolize her inner turmoil, mental instability, and societal alienation shows her status as a marginalised and oppressed figure who s mysterious, untamed, and potentially dangerous presence in the novel, so a complex antagonist