Wide Sargasso Sea Set in Jamaica during the 1930's, Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Bertha Cosway, a beautiful Creole heiress living on a decaying plantation. Her father had many children by Negro women. She can be accepted neither by the Negro ... to outsiders that the marriage is doomed, Antoinette does not give up. Her husband turns out to be a selfish, manipulative man, who pushes Antoinette into the precarious world of madness. Wide Sargasso Sea ends in England, where Antoinette is trapped in her husband's attic. Only her husband and one other person know that Antoinette ev...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Antoinette struggles to find her true identity. This becomes challenging for her because she cannot escape the local populations tendency to judge others based on concepts such ... ...

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Location: Spanish Town, Jamaica In this chapter we are given and insight to Antoinette's new life at the Convent in Spanish Town (a new environment) as well and a description of the students, teachers and the area. The events of the night have left Antoinette ill and she awakes six- weeks later after the fire at Coulibri Estate. She finds herself in Spanish Town with Aunt Cora who informs Antoinette that she was extremely ill, and gives us a run down of how exactly they escaped. Antoinette soon learns of Pierre's death, which was as a result of the fire as well as the location of her mother. A...

• Word Count: 808
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• Grade Level: High School