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In the Short story, “I used to live here once" by Jean Rhys portrays the story of a woman who is still in the process of accepting her death and that she is already in the afterlife. The conflict in the short story is also very intriguing because this is more of an internal conflict that the female character has to deal with. The conflict undeniably in the short story is all about the internal conflict between the female character and herself. Obviously the female character is already a spirit

Masculinity is an odd concept, because in many ways it is representative of strength and power. However, it is also represented through pop culture, literature, media, etc. as being rather fragile. In feminist literature, we see this fragility come through at incredible rates. While simply looking at a couple of novels, it is possible to evaluate how the power dynamic of masculinity puts up its walls when facing the smallest threats to its power. Through analysis of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are

short story, perhaps in the 21st century would be designated as flash fiction, "I Used to Live Here Once" by Jean Rhys. There are clearly some structural differences in the formatting of the respective pieces, yet both forms allow for storytelling and poetic language and/or imagery. The Frost poem is heavily concerned with choices and paths with respect to change for the future while the Rhys short story illustrates how roads to the past often reveal changes for which we are unprepared. "The Road Not

The Theme of Misunderstanding in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea In both classical novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte a Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys the theme of misunderstanding is represented very widely. Both Victorian era dramatical romantic fictions have some impact in them from their respective authors. Bronte's lonliness is transformed into Jane Eyre's Character whom mostly all characters in the novel misunderstand her until they truly get to recognize

and film are chock-a-block full of images representing death. Even the beloved The Christmas Carole tells the story of a present in which Marley is dead and spirits escort Scrooge to a season in the future in which Scrooge is absent. So, too, Jean Rhys takes her character into the future. In analyzing, comparing, and contrasting these two literary works, we can see that the human tendency is not to acknowledge mortality, but rather to live with the incomprehensibility of death by ignoring it as fervently

Examine the ways in which Rhys demonstrates how women are victims of a patriarchal society in Wide Sargasso Sea. A patriarchal society is one whereby men are the decision makers and hold positions of power and prestige. Patriarchy refers to a societal structure whereby men are dominant not in number or in force but in their access to status related power and decision making power. In these societies, women are presented with an interpretation of the world made by men, and a history of the world

enter war and inequalities grew greater. The writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries wrote realistically what was happening in the world. The Moment before the Gun Went Off by Nadine Gordimer and “The Day They Burned the Books” by Jean Rhys are both stories that show the shattering of Idealism in twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Britain’s colonialism caused many problems for natives and natural born British who lived in the colonies. The illusion of patriotism shattered as conflicts

Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea haunts the narrative of Jane Eyre through the construction and recognition of the uncanny. Rhys incorporates the uncanny within her rewriting of Jane Eyre through the utilization of narrative devices and ambiguous representations of physical spaces. By rewriting Jane Eyre, Rhys attempts to construct a history that is not only detached from the dominant world established in Jane Eyre, but grounded within the hauntological realm of the Caribbean. The hauntological realm

affects their characters. Rhys and Orwell dwell into various distinctions of power dynamics, ranging from racial power structures to cultural power structures, which are presented in how Rhys and Orwell portray the colonizers and colonized, and both authors illustrate how imperialism affects their characters’ beliefs and understanding of the world at large. Through a close examination of Jean Rhys’s “The Day They Burned the Books” and George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”, Jean Rhy and George Orwell reveal

Prior to Emancipation, “the estate was going downhill for years before,” and when getting ready for their marriage Annette bought “yards of muslin” purchased through selling “her last ring” (Rhys 16-17). This is the scene in which Antoinette, as a little girl in Jamaica, and her mother are trying to survive the downfall as their land can no longer give them the means to support themselves. Colonialism and Patriarchy are at the forefront of