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      • Wide Sargasso Sea explores the power of relationships between men and women and discusses the themes of race, Caribbean history, and assimilation as Antoinette is caught in a white, patriarchal society in which she fully belongs neither to Europe nor to Jamaica.
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  2. Premise. The novel and film explore Jean Rhys's account of the West Indian Creole heiress, here called Antoinette Cosway, who marries the Englishman Mr. Rochester, and becomes his "madwoman in the attic" featured in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. For a full-length summary see: plot summary of Wide Sargasso Sea .

    • $1,614,784
    • 16 April 1993 (US)
  3. The novel ends with Antoinette holding a candle and walking down from her upstairs prison. A short summary of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Wide Sargasso Sea.

  4. Wide Sargasso Sea Summary. Next. Part 1. Antoinette Cosway, a creole, or Caribbean person of European descent, recounts her memories of growing up at her family’s estate, Coulibri, in Jamaica in the 1830‘s.

  5. Apr 16, 1993 · Wide Sargasso Sea: Directed by John Duigan. With Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, Rachel Ward, Michael York. A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property.

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    • Drama, Romance, Thriller
    • John Duigan
    • 1993-04-16
  6. As a reimagining of one of Jane Eyre’s most mysterious characters, Wide Sargasso Sea offers a more nuanced look at the sociopolitical forces that drive a woman like Antoinette to madness. Rhys calls attention to the harmful impacts of colonialism and patriarchal values by depicting Antoinette’s struggle to maintain agency in a world which ...

  7. by Jean Rhys. Buy Study Guide. Wide Sargasso Sea Summary. Wide Sargasso Sea begins in Jamaica after the Emancipation Act of 1833, under which Britain outlawed slavery in all its colonies.

  8. 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...

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