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Birds. Coco, Annette’s pet parrot, enacts Antoinette’s own doom. With his wings clipped by Mr. Mason—notably, an Englishman—the bird is shackled and maimed, mirroring Antoinette’s own flightless dependency. As Antoinette recalls, “ [Coco] made an effort to fly down but his clipped wings failed him and he fell screeching.
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 ...
Grace Poole Character Analysis. Next. Symbols. Antoinette’s caretaker in the husband’s manor in England, Grace Poole is paid handsomely for her discretion, which she maintains despite her misgivings regarding the husband's treatment of Antoinette. A partial narrator of Part 3 of the novel, she often drinks to excess and falls asleep ...
Antoinette is a far cry from the conventional female heroines of nineteenth- and even twentieth-century novels, who are often more rational and self-restrained (as is Jane Eyre herself). In Antoinette, by contrast, we see the potential dangers of a wild imagination and an acute sensitivity. Her restlessness and instability seem to stem, in some ...
Important Quotes Explained. There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now. I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself yet not quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between us—hard, cold and misted over ...
In Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys's re-writing of the unquestioned imperialism of Jane Eyre from the point of view of the white Creole woman, is central to an understanding of the novel. Although space limits an exploration of this issue within the essay, it must be noted that colonialism in the Rhys text can be seen as another double - the 'other side ...
Amélie She is a young servant and she leaves the day after having sex with Rochester. Annette This is the name used for Antoinette’s mother, although her name is also referred to as being the same as her daughter’s so could be Antoinette or Antoinetta. Antoinette Antoinette is one of the first-person narrators of the novel, along with Rochester, and is also referred to as Bertha. Bertha ...
