... create and seamlessly endless path. Nature has its way of telling it's own history, a story of it's past, and the past of everything that surrounds it. In the postcolonial novel Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys, the Caribbean landscape is used as an agent to be interpreted by two different characters, Antoinette and Rochester, in this prequel. Each of them will have a very ... ...
... for African Americans in the 1960's are other examples. Yet the quest for freedom entails winning over possession, something that is portrayed in Wide Sargasso Sea and The Awakening. The characters Antoinette Rochester and Edna Pontellier strive fruitlessly to overcome being someone's possession in order to have true freedom ... the women would satisfy what everyone expected, therefore fulfilling a "role."" In the same aspect, Antoinette was also faced with this daunting task in Wide Sargasso Sea. During her time, slave traders were condemned and looked down upon. Because of what her mot...
