Seeing Antoinette"'"s view of what happened between her and Rochester is much different from .
what is seen thru the eyes of Jane Eyre. Although both Charlotte Bronte"'"s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhyse"'"s .
Wide Sargasso Sea ultimately deal the same people, they have almost opposite views of their .
characteristics and the stories behind them. Reading Jane Eyre, we see Antoinette Mason, or '"'Bertha'"', .
many times. She plays a major role by adding some mystery and question to the story. The readers .
see Bertha as a raving madwomen who cannot be controlled, especially by Rochester, and just wants .
to hurt and kill people. As we read about Bertha in Wide Sargasso Sea, we see that this is not .
necessarily true. .
Bertha"'"s family had a history of mental problems. Her mom had been in an asylum and her .
brother was mentally challenged. Although she was probably predisposed to have bad mental health, .
many things occurred in her childhood to worsen the situation. Her parents had owned slaves who .
were now all free. As a girl, she was followed, being called a '"'white cockroach'"'. Being followed .
scares her and could cause paranoia later in her life. She had no friends, hated by the English for living .
with the blacks and hated by the freed black slaves because her parents had once owned them. At one .
point, a black girl that she thought was her friend throws a stone at her, hitting her in the head. This sort .
of betrayal could lead to her not trusting anyone. .
Their marriage started out without love. Edward Rochester was paid a large amount of money .
to marry Bertha. He desperately needed money, for his father gave all his money to Edward"'"s older .
brother, leaving Edward with nothing. When Rochester hears about Bertha"'"s mental problems, he feels .
that he was tricked by his father, his brother and Bertha"'"s stepfather, Mr. Mason. At first, Bertha .
doesn"'"t suspect a thing about the marriage not being real, but eventually some of the angry servants .
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. ... Wide Sargasso Sea ends in England, where Antoinette is trapped in her husband's attic. ...
In Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys has written a prequel to Jane Eyre. ... For Wide Sargasso Sea, it is narrated by different point of views, the reader cannot be certain which characters are good or bad, it allows the readers to form an opinion toward characters by themselves like modern world view. ... Lastly, it discusses about how convincing Wide Sargasso Sea is as a prequel story for Jane Eyre. ... In Wide Sargasso Sea, there is no power of women to rise above the oppression of her gender. ...
I found that Wide Sargasso Sea was easier to read and understand. ... I think that Rhys, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, chose to re-tell Jane Eyre in the way that she did because it gives us an interesting perspective on a character who is not known at all in Jane Eyre. ... In Wide Sargasso Sea, we step into her life and find out what really happened and her point of view on the events leading up to the fire. ... In Wide Sargasso Sea, she is described very differently. ...
The Massacre of a Young Soul There's a whisper beneath the text of "Wide Sargasso Sea. ... "Wide Sargasso Sea" is not merely a creation of the history of Bertha Rochester; moreover it addresses the social injustices of woman, slavery, and colonialism. Rhys intertwines a strong message within this story and uses the soft essence of a whisper to reveal the dynamic struggle of how the intertwining of lives and people of different culture and different domain can strangle a person as surely as the seaweed that floats in the deep shadows of the wide sea. ... Luttrell who "swam out to se...
The novel "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys is the story of Antoinette Cosway's life. She is a Creole girl growing up on a decaying plantation in Jamaica. When she gets older, she is married to the second son of a noble English family and he takes her with him to England, away from the place whe...
Jean Rhys" novel Wide Sargasso Sea is a text that explores the concept of madness. It does this from many angles, including exploring the following questions: What is madness? Who gets to define madness? What does madness depend on? The characters that will be analysed in order to understand the...
Diary of a Landscape Every time we look out the window or go on a road trip, we notice the beautiful scenery that surrounds us, the composition of nature. And we often wonder how a mountain has taken this shape, or how these trees seem to line up to create and seamlessly endless path. Nature ha...
Yet the quest for freedom entails winning over possession, something that is portrayed in Wide Sargasso Sea and The Awakening. ... In the same aspect, Antoinette was also faced with this daunting task in Wide Sargasso Sea. ... On the other hand, the reader is also shown Antoinette's inner mental conflicts in Wide Sargasso Sea. ... Because the power of possession is undoubtedly a major part of both The Awakening and Wide Sargasso Sea, the desire for freedom is also a significant factor in this. ... As for Edna, she frees herself by drowning herself in the sea. ...
