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1 day ago · Summary of Wide Sargasso Sea . This book was written in the 1960s, by Jean Rhys who was born and brought up, at least during her most formative years, on the island of Dominica when it was still a British Colony . Wide Sargasso Sea is a literary response to Jane Eyre, specifically to the Creole character of Bertha Mason, Rochester’s first wife
4 days ago · Rhys peered into darkness, unafraid to articulate the experiences of women falling through the cracks in society, and the broken vulnerability that led them into the jaws of men. At the age of 76, after living in obscurity, drowning her sorrows in alcohol, and facing several heartbreaks, Rhys found acclaim with Wide Sargasso Sea. “It has come ...
4 days ago · The Bermuda Triangle is in an area of the Atlantic called the Sargasso Sea – the only sea without a land border.. It’s a place full of wonder; a golden floating rainforest home to turtles and whales and a nursery for even more incredible creatures.
1 day ago · In her discussion of Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea," Jennifer Gilchrist (2012) explores the intertwined issues of gender and slavery, situating her argument within an intelligible socio- historical context that makes her arguments more attractive to a broader range of readers than are strictly interested in feminist and postcolonial theory.
4 days ago · The crew also stopped to pull a metre-wide tangle of ‘ghost gear’ – discarded rope and fishing gear – from the water where it could have snarled sea turtles, seabirds and other marine animals. This first leg of the voyage has helped to document the vast array of animals living in the Sargasso.
1 day ago · Named for the enormous mats of floating sargassum seaweed that form important nursery grounds for a wide range of ocean species here, the Sargasso Sea offers both food and shelter to the baby turtles. At five to seven years—and now about the size of dinner plates—the juvenile turtles will make their way back towards the coast.
