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Wide Sargasso Sea can be categorized under myriad perspectives namely, a feminist criticism, post-colonial criticism or a perspective of a double decolonization. This paper intends to shed light on three major issues; slavery, male dominance and displacement as highlighted by Rhys in her novel Wide Sargasso Sea.
a novel. Wide Sargasso Sea revises Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre by presenting the life of Rochester's first wife, called Ber-tha in Jane Eyre and Antoinette in this work. Antoinette's narration, which constitutes a considerable portion of the novel, gives her own version of her courtship and mar-riage to Edward Fairfax Rochester, desirable ...
The paper will also analyze the role of the protagonists', Antoinette and Susan, and their relationship with the other significant characters in the novel Wide Sargasso Sea and Foe to identify how ...
were considered, by the colonizer, as inferior and dependent by nature. Concerning the textual referentiality, Wide Sargasso Sea is constructed following the terms of a literary and historical discourse which takes Europe, and precisely England, as origin and reference. The starting point of the novel is Jane Eyre; consequently, it bears the
Both Jane Eyreand Wide Sargasso Sea, which are novels written by Charlotte Bronte and Jean Rhys, represent the women in any historical period of protesting patriarchy and oppression. This paper is ...
Wide Sargasso Sea. Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea is a post-colonial novel that acts as a prequel and feminist response to the life of one of the characters from Jean Eyre. In this book, Rhys details the life of Antoinette (Bertha) Mason, a woman driven to madness as a result of traumatic experiences. Answer and Explanation:
Dec 30, 2016 · In the novel Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys repeatedly presents the idea of minority being considered as “other” through the theme of isolation and alienation of her characters and how isolation and alienation influence on the formation of characters’ identities. In Wide Sargasso Sea, different characters experience different types of ...
