Wide Sargasso Sea Essay

He wondered if they became a part of the sun and air as well as goodness and knowledge. The garden also reminded him of Antonia. It made think about how much he truly loved her and wondered if she felt it too. They would play in the garden, work in the garden and pick potatoes. The garden may also symbolize the freedom they had. In this garden there was also a snake incident where Antonia bragged about how brave Jim was. She would tell his family “ He fought something awful! He is all over Jimmy's boots. I screamed for him to run, but he

The Salton Basin , a below-sea-level depression which extends on the north from Palm Springs , California, to the Gulf of California , in the south. The Salton Sea has undergone historic cycles of filling with water and later drying up. The most recent predecessor to the Sea, that being Lake Cahuilla , last filled this area between 300 to 500 years ago and at one time had a surface elevation above sea level. In 1905 the flooding of the Colorado River was accidentally diverted into the Salton though and thus the Salton Sea was born. When the Colorado River floods retreated in 1907, the surface elevation of the Salton Sea slowly began to drop until the 1930�s when agricultural drainage from the Imperial

It sets the beginning scene of the story containing a crowd of people in front of a heavy wooden oak door. The building is a prison and outside the wall is a rosebush that represents a symbol of nature's kindness to the condemned, or relief in unrelenting sorrow and gloom.

In other scenarios other people decide for others based on the fact they know what is better for them which is usually false. These crucial decisions that they make or others affect their whole life, either in a good way or bad. Wide Sargasso Sea is the tale of Antoinette Cosway, born in Jamaica in the early 19th century to a British slave owner. It was not Antoinette’s decision to be a slave owner, after slavery ended, Antoinette faced a lot of racism in her neighborhood by young girls including her best friend Tia. Her mother often got criticized by the locals as well. Antoinette’s parents decision to be slave owners affected Antoinette in a negative way because of the racism and bullying she faced daily. This affected her daily life, and future. In a way Antoinette was trapped and imprisoned in being viewed as this racist girl. Antoinette’s true personality never reflected racist characteristics.

An element present among both stories in the role of nature and the gates, gardens and fountains within them. Within mythology and symbolism, gardens are seen as a motif of an untouched, primal state where nothing is lacking including companionship, food, and drink. The garden

In the first chapter of into the killing seas by Michael P Spradin, explains the journey young and courageous Patrick took to get in a dangerous plan so that he could reunite with his parents. The family of Patrick, his younger brother, and his parents were sent to Manila. However, the Japanese invaded and they needed to get out of there. Despite that, the plane can only take the two boys. When they were supposed to reach San Francisco, they ended up in Guam. A couple of days after they reached Guam, “ Japanese arrived.” This meant that they had to flee as soon as possible. Luckily, they met a helpful marine and he helped the two brothers cook up a plan to reunite with their parents.

State Cup is always an exciting element of the season and the culmination of seasonal play. Lancaster has always been bittersweet for me as I have spent more time here than I care to remember. Why you might ask? Well, depending on the year the weather can be cool and calm, or windy, rainy and freezing. I guess it is like Forrest Gump said about a box of chocolates: “You never know what you are going to get”. This year was promising as we have been experiencing warmer than normal temperature. I for one looked at the weather app on my phone on a daily basis to find out what nature had store for us this morning.

The garden metaphor is all throughout the play of Hamlet. This metaphor can be viewed

In the novel Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Antoinette Mason’s identity is frequently discussed. Antoinette, the daughter of ex-slave owners and a woman whose life is dictated by mental illness, grows up in the Caribbean as a Creole during the nineteenth century. As a young adult, she is forced into a marriage with a white man from England, an event that ultimately leads Antoinette to her downfall. At the start of the novel, Antoinette and the characters around her are optimistic about their identity and future. As the plot progresses, Antoinette increasingly struggles to understand who she is and what her future entails. Ultimately, Antoinette loses her identity and her purpose. Throughout the text there are many reoccurring motifs. A motif

Race was paramount to how the characters of Wide Sargasso Sea viewed themselves in terms of their identity. The main character, Antoinette Cosway, struggles with her identity in how her whiteness is made evident to others around her, as well as to how she learns to views herself. Whiteness is examined more closely than blackness is within the novel because the central character happens to be white, however she does not live up to the standards of whiteness presented by those who consider themselves to be the pinnacle of whiteness. Yet, that is not to say that blackness is not discussed within the novel, because through the discussion of what is considered white, what is not considered white is also explicitly stated. Within the novel, race

Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea is not able to gain her identity and respectable recognition. Antoinette is crushed under her husband’s (an unnamed Englishman) colonial prejudice and is segregated to the status of the other. I take the liberation of calling Antoinette’s unnamed English husband Rochester from this point forward as this novel has drawn scholarly attention as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Rhys herself says that she wanted to rewrite the story of marginalized Jamaican woman, who is misrepresented and silenced by a western writer. I think it gives me a valid reason to call

I would say that doomed would be the correct adjective to use. Antoinette did not stand a chance at a happy marriage with Rochester. There are lots of different things that happen to undermine the success of their marriage. To begin with their marriage is based on money. The only reason that Rochester is marrying Antoinette was due to the large dowry placed on her by Mr Mason. A marriage without love will never work but all Antoinette wanted was to be loved as her mother had not loved her. Mr Rochester also felt manipulated by his father. Rochester was not the first born son and so did not stand to inherit anything. He felt neglected by his father and marrying Antoinette was his way of trying to not be a disappointment to him. One of the main themes of loneliness is expressed by the two characters in this way. "I will never be a disgrace to you or to my dear brother the son you love." Because he has been effectively forced into this marriage, Rochester feels very unenthusiastic about spending time with his new bride.

The Ross Sea is one of the most productive regions of the Southern Ocean, accounting for 25–30% of annual Southern Ocean primary production (Moore and Abbott 2000, Arrigo et al. 1998a, Arrigo et al. 2008). Because this region is covered by sea ice for much of the year, the bulk of annual production is restricted to austral spring and to summer blooms of phytoplankton that develop at the marginal ice zone (MIZ) and within polynyas (open water surrounded by ice) along the Victoria

With approximately 85% percent of Australia’s population living within 50km of it, the coastline has always been a popular haven for human civilization. In Qld, many say that it has become fundamentally important to us, both as a natural resource and as a means of revenue. Despite our inclination towards them, however, coastlines are delicate and dynamic environments susceptible to change, both of natural and of human cause as well. Now, more than ever, decisions regarding the coastline must be measured carefully to ensure their sustainability into the future.

The times when Jane have no clue that Bertha existence, she gave her no qualities of a normal human, and thought that she was a ghost when she heard Bertha’s eerie laughter. Then the time when Bertha snuck into Jane’s room, Jane thought she saw a vampire and describes her as “‘fearful and ghastly’” (Brontë 242). Even when she finally saw Bertha in daylight she still called her a hyena.