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Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys. The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë 's novel Jane Eyre (1847), describing the background to Mr. Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress. Antoinette Cosway is Rhys's version of ...
- October 1966
- Postmodern novel
Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1993 Australian film directed by John Duigan, and starring Karina Lombard and Nathaniel Parker. It is an adaptation of Jean Rhys 's 1966 novel of the same name . Premise.
- $1,614,784
- 16 April 1993 (US)
- Jan Sharp
- Stewart Copeland
May 29, 2019 · Wide Sargasso Sea is a sympathetic account of the life of Rochester’s mad wife, ranging from her childhood in the West Indies, her Creole and Catholic background, and her courtship and married years with the deceitful Rochester, to her final descent into madness and captivity in England.
Apr 23, 1993 · Unnerved by monster moths, the hauteur of Christophene, the pounding of all those drums and the unmistakable bedroom eyes of the fetching Amelie (Rowena King), Rochester starts to lose his...
Pierre has died. Annette's madness, which has revealed itself gradually over the years, has fully surfaced after the trauma of the fire. When Antoinette visits her mother, who has been placed in the care of a Black couple, she hardly recognizes the ghostlike figure she encounters. When Antoinette approaches, Annette violently flings her away.
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The 1966 publication of Wide Sargasso Sea, twenty-seven years after the appearance of her last novel, reflects the culmination of her earlier heroine sketches, while shifting focus away from an industrial European context and back to a nineteenth-century Caribbean landscape.
The sensual film based on the acclaimed novel by Jean Rhys. Overview. In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason.
