Wide Sargasso Sea Essays

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 […]

Report: Loss of Identity portrayed in a range of literature For my report I chose to look at the loss of Identity portrayed in a range of different literature. The texts that I chose to study were: ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ by Jean Rhys, ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ by Robert Louis […]

When confronted with aggression one can fight or retreat. In what ways are reactions to aggression presented in the work you have studied? By bizmaltbk21 When confronted with aggression one can fight or retreat. In what ways are reactions to aggression presented in the work you have studied? Emotions are easier shown than written. Every […]

Wide Sargasso Sea. Jane Rhys portrays the life of a young creole woman, named Antoinette, who lives on the Caribbean island of Martinique. Throughout the novel, Antoinette experiences much difficulty with her identity. Antoinette looks like a white woman, and the majority of the people who live on the Island of Martinique are black, so […]

Jean Rhys might have made the character, Mr Luttrell do something so demented on the first page to Inform the reader that there are more berserk scenes to come. At the end of page one, the quote ‘and no one came near us’ clearly tells the reader that this family was isolated and isolation can […]

Jean Rays repeatedly presents the idea of minority being considered as “other” through the theme of Isolation and alienation of her characters and how Isolation and alienation Influence on the formation of characters’ identities. In Wide Cargos Sea, different characters experience different types of isolation and alienation but Antoinette, the main character of this book, […]

Through your understanding of “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte and “Wide Sargasso Sea” and with reference to your understanding of the social contexts within which they were written, was it inevitable that the marriage between Bertha Mason and Edward Rochester would fail? I believe that the social rules and requirements of the time would never […]

This as a part of my GCSE coursework in English, this is about the comparison of the portrayal of the character Bertha/Antoinette Mason in the novels Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea. At the moment my teacher has not marked my work so I am unable to give the grade I achieved for this piece […]

In Part 2 of ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ pages 96-98. Antoinette visits Christophine hoping that she will give her a love potion to make Mr Rochester fall in love with her. Antoinette attempts to control Mr Rochester’s feelings, which is deceitful. She is also deceiving herself by thinking that their love can be rekindled by a […]

Edward Rochester is an upper-class British gentlemen of 19th century Britain. The character of Rochester features heavily in both Bronti’s Jane Eyre and Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea: similarly presented for the most part, but with differences which result in quite different conclusions. The culture and society that each novel is portraying can be considered to […]

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 […]

J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Disgrace’ literates Lurie’s attempt and failure of the seduction of a schoolgirl, Melanie. This is a campus novel about the first flirtation between a university lecturer and a student. The aptly named novel suggests the possible overall outcome of having a relationship with a student. ‘Disgrace’ is written from a third person in […]