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Jean Rhys and Charlotte Bronte wrote their novels in distinctive time periods and originated from diverse influences in writing. Jean Rhys’ novel, Wide Sargasso Sea is a fascinating connection to Rochester's insane wife locked in a room. Rhys further represents Antoinette while, Charlotte Bronte affirmed that it was left clarified (Thorpe 126) Antoinette, like Jane, evolves in a world with a negligible measure of affection to offer. Both these characters are taken care of by relatives, both had a

Intertextuality is the ongoing interaction between poems or stories. Some examples include: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys In his novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys gathers some events occurred in the famous novel the novel, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. The purpose is to tell the readers an alternative tale. Rhys presents the wife of Mr. Rochester, who played the role of a secondary character in Jane Eyre. Also, the setting of this novel is Jamaica not England, and author develops the back-story

Feminism is a movement that I believe is misunderstood by those who do not try to understand it. There was a time when I misunderstood what it meant to be a feminist and believed it to be a ‘man-hating’ movement that strived to make women the rulers of the world and though I do not completely despise the idea it was not something I was comfortable being a part of. Thanks to the mass media that surrounds me in this millennium, I have learned that being a feminist and the feminist movement is instead

The mad woman is written to express the author’s anxiety. In Wide Sargasso Sea, Jane Eyre does not exist. Jean Rhys created the opposition binary between men and women instead of women and women. Compared to the idea that the mad woman and Jane Eyre are actually in the same female camp, Yang Mei has conducted a study that is concerned about the group of female but

by Jean Rhys and the short story “The Treatment of Bibi Haldar” by Jhumpa Lahiri, both stories manage to have many similarities. Jean Rhys and Jhumpa Lahiri write about how both characters, Antoinette and Bibi Haldar, are unaccepted by their societies. Antoinette and Bibi Haldar are misfits in their communities because they do not conform to cultural norms, their communities and peers believe they have illnesses, and both come from dysfunctional families. In Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and the

Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea attempts to prove just how closely intertwined dreams and reality are. Rhys meticulously weaves dreams into real life, ultimately creating a novel that conjures a very ethereal truth. Trying to draw the line between what is real and what is fake is nearly impossible and, by the end of the novel, the reader is left in a state of lucid uncertainty. Rhys’s clever use of slumber in Wide Sargasso Sea reveals an enhanced sense of character progression, the inevitability of

Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre intertwined In Wide Sargasso Sea, author Jean Rhys uses intertextuality to tell the story of Antoinette Mason. Intertexuality is when an author bases their book/novel off of another text. In this case, Wide Sargasso Sea is shaped from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and it elaborates on the character of Bertha, who is Antoinette Mason in Rhys’ novel. By reading Wide Sargasso Sea we are enlightened on things in Jane Eyre that Bronte does not tell us about or elaborate

Cruelty and Insanity in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea provides unique insight into the gradual deterioration of the human mind and spirit. On examining Antoinette and her mother Annette, the reader gains a new perspective of insanity. One realizes that these two women are mentally perturbed as a result of numerous external factors that are beyond their control. The cruelty of life and people drive Annette and her daughter to lunacy. Neither mother nor daughter have a

women and children. It is a system of government, where men hold the power, and women are largely excluded from it. A patriarchal civilisation promotes the dominance of men in social or cultural societies. Jean Rhys (August 24th – 1890 May 14th 1979) was a Dominican modernist writer; Rhys is widely recognised for her postcolonial novel ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’, which is considered to be a post-modern feminist text. Another writer that wrote about the governance of patriarchy over matriarchy, in her

being pestered, she wanted peace and quiet. I was old enough to look after myself. 'Oh, let me alone,' she would say, 'let me alone,' and after I knew that she talked aloud to herself I was a little afraid of her."   -Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys (p. 20)   As the first passage shows, Jane expresses to Ms. Reed, who is dying in her bed, that she had always been willing to love her. However, her Aunt allowed her little, if any, room to express it. Bronte's use of diction, words such as