Wide Sargasso Sea

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

Quotation Analysis, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 1. I went to parts of Coulibri that I had not seen, where there was no road, no path, no track. And if the razor grass cut my legs and arms I would think, ‘It’s better than people.’ Black ants or red ones, tall nests swarming with white ants, rain that soaked me to the skin— once I saw a snake. All better than people. Better. Better, better than people (25). In this quotation, young Antoinette describes the new route she took to and from home.

structure of power for one reason or another. However, despite the uplifting narrative development that generally occurs within these stories, the concern about power struggle is never truly resolved—the problem remains. Through My Ántonia, Wide Sargasso Sea, and “Roselily”, the reader can see that the influence of power and its negative and toxic consequences proves fatal within class, race, and gender boundaries. Willa Cather’s My Ántonia displays the gender-focused concern about power within the

state known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Naomi Breslau states that one of the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is "a numbing of affect and avoidance of thoughts, acts, and situations that represent the trauma" (Breslau 924). In Wide Sargasso Sea, Antoinette clearly shows this type of symptom. In her last dream described by Rhys, Antoinette sees "the pool at Coulibri" (Rhys 112). This obviously shows that Antoinette can only deal with her past at Coulibri in her dreams, and not in reality

Jane Eyre -Spark notes Chapter I Jane is an orphan. She was adopted by Mr. John Reed, yet he died when she was a year old. One of his last wishes was for his wife, Mrs. Reed, to look after Jane. This she does out of duty, but she treats Jane as less than a servant. She despises Jane for her quiet and creative character. Jane takes great pleasure from reading books, and is very smart for her age of ten; Mrs. Reed secretly feels intimidated by her. A child of a “more sociable and child-like disposition

1. A legend is a story that tells mostly the truth with some mythical events. A myth is a story that tells a truth to the person listening but actually doesn’t explain any real events. 2. Between 1945 and 1965 5 planes crashed and 10 ships sunk or disappeared in this area- Proven. Strange occurrences can happen outside of the Bermuda Triangle as well- Proven. To date, any plane that goes down in the triangle debris is never found- Proven. When in the triangle compasses stop working- Proven.

The Bermuda Triangle A mythical section of the Atlantic Ocean roughly bounded by Miami, the Bermuda Triangle is a place where dozens of ships, planes, and aircrafts have disappeared. Surrounding this mysterious location, unexplained circumstances included one in which the pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy became disoriented while flying over this area; the planes were never found. Adding on, other boats and planes have seemingly vanished without any traces and signs of evidence or even the communication

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 Not the Only Fruit and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, it is possible to see how the figureheads of masculinity panic as soon as they are posed with the smallest threat. The protagonists of both stories are categorized as “mad” or “abnormal” throughout the course of each respective plot. They are

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

drawn in the wrong direction. In the Triangle, a place where compasses point to true north, not magnetic north, getting lost is no trouble. “The U.S Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard contend that there are no supernatural; explanations for disasters at sea…” and, “… does not recognize the Bermuda Triangle as an official name and does not maintain an official file on the area” (National