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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wide_Sargasso_SeaWide Sargasso Sea - Wikipedia

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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.

   • Publication date: October 1966
   • Genre: Postmodern novel

   • Author: Jean Rhys

2. www.enotes.com › topics › wide-sargassoWide Sargasso Sea Characters - eNotes.com

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   The Characters. PDF Cite Share. Antoinette Mason is the most fully realized of Jean Rhys’s protagonists. While the protagonists of her earlier novels are constrained by Rhys’s adherence to ...

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   Learn more about the full cast of Wide Sargasso Sea with news, photos, videos and more at TV Guide ... Adaptation of Jean Rhys' novel about an arranged marriage in 19th-century Jamaica between a ...

   • Director: Brendan Maher, Brian Maher

5. literariness.org › 2019/05/29 › analysis-of-jeanAnalysis of Jean Rhys’s Novel Wide Sargasso Sea

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   May 29, 2019 · When Wide Sargasso Sea, her last novel, was published, Jean Rhys (24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was described in The New York Times as the greatest living novelist. Such praise is overstated, but Rhys’s fiction, long overlooked by academic critics, is undergoing a revival spurred by feminist studies. Rhys played a noteworthy role….

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   Who wrote Wide Sargasso Sea?

   • 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.

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   Does Rhys give a name in Wide Sargasso Sea?

   • However, Rhys never gives a name to this character in Wide Sargasso Sea. As a younger son with no prospects of inheritance, Rochester has come to Jamaica to make his fortune. He feels coerced by his father and by Antoinette's family into marrying Antoinette for her money.

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   What happens in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea?

   • In the dream, she hears the husband calling to her and jumps to her death. When she wakes, she is filled with a sense of purpose, lights a candle and descends into the house to act out her dream. Get all the key plot points of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes.

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   What is Wide Sargasso Sea about?

   • 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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7. www.britannica.com › topic › Wide-Sargasso-SeaWide Sargasso Sea | Caribbean, Postcolonial & Feminism

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   Mar 14, 2024 · Wide Sargasso Sea, novel by Jean Rhys, published in 1966. A well-received work of fiction, it takes its theme and main character from the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The book details the life of Antoinette Mason (known in Jane Eyre as Bertha), a West Indian who marries an unnamed man in Jamaica and returns with him to his home in England.

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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 Summary. 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. Her family, consisting of her mother, Annette, and her mentally disabled younger brother, Pierre, are destitute and isolated after her father’s ...