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Wide Sargasso Sea Full Book Summary. Antoinette's story begins when she is a young girl in early nineteenth- century Jamaica. The white daughter of ex-slave owners, she lives on a run-down plantation called Coulibri Estate. Five years have passed since her father, Mr. Cosway, reportedly drunk himself to death, his finances in ruins after the ...
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Wide Sargasso Sea is a revisionist novel, written to complicate and push up against the accepted truth of Antoinette or “Bertha” Cosway’s character as it is put forth in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre —the archetypal “madwoman in the attic.”. The novel questions the very nature of truth in its premise, form, and content.
Summary. The first part of Wide Sargasso Sea is told from the perspective of Antoinette Cosway, a young girl who lives on an estate on the island of Jamaica (a British colony) with her mother and brother and a dwindling group of the family's former slaves. As the novella begins in 1834, the slaves have been granted emancipation and the island ...
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.
Mr. Luttrell. A neighbor of the Cosway’s, Mr. Luttrell is a former slaveowner who commits suicide early on in the novel, unable to adjust to the changes in Jamaica post-Emancipation. His death rattles Annette, who feels completely isolated without his presence.