6/4/2023 0 Comments Sargasso sea novel![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. Rochesters marriage from the point-of-view of his wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys.The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontës novel Jane Eyre (1847), describing the background to Mr. On the other hand, the discerning reconfiguration of elements of Brontë’s text proves, for Rhys as author, to be ultimately affirmative, evidencing her agile negotiations on the terrain of both connection and difference. The purpose of the research is to examine how Rhys gives the same sense of exile and marginality to Antoinette Cosway, the heroine of her 1966 novel Wide. The developmental journey of Rhys’s protagonist Antoinette speaks to the multiple challenges that this novel addresses: offering ambiguous and mutually incompatible interpretive possibilities, Antoinette’s story suggests her abject state of enthrallment to a maternal presence or, alternatively, her capacity for an empowered self-assertion. ![]() In responding to Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre, Rhys found that she must make her way to a delicate balance of homage and critique as she revisited the work of her literary foremother and thereby traversed once again the realm of pre-Oedipal relations. W ide Sargasso Sea, over which Rhys labored for many years, demonstrates her complex management of sometimes competing demands. ![]()
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