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Includes a PDF summary of 18 pages; Duration of the summary (audio): 12M41S (3.6 MB) Description or summary of the audiobook: Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society ...
Synopsis. A prequel to Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre' (7377), this is Jean Rhys' story of Antoinette Cosway from the time of her youth in the Caribbean to her unhappy marriage with Mr Rochester and relocation to England. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness.
Wide Sargasso Sea. Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece 'Wide Sargasso Sea' was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre', and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress, Antoinette Cosway, meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and ...
Full Title Wide Sargasso Sea. Author Jean Rhys. Type of work Novel. Genre Postcolonial novel; reinterpretation; prequel. Language English, with bits of French patois and Creole dialect. Time and place written Mid-1940s to mid-1960s; England. Date of first publication First version of Part One published in 1964; completed novel published in 1966.
The novel opens with Antoinette ’s narration, looking back at her childhood in 1830’s post-Emancipation Jamaica. Antoinette and her family are isolated, socially and geographically. Antoinette explains that their exclusion from white society is a result of disapproval by “the Jamaican ladies” of her mother Annette ’s youth, physical ...
Full Book Analysis. 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 ...
A summary of Part Two: Section One in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Wide Sargasso Sea and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
