Wide Sargasso Sea – Flashcards
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jean rhys
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antoinette's mother is from
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martinique
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in part one they live where
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caulibri estate
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who is mr. luttrell
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he was there neighbor but grew tired of waiting for the emancipation act and swam out to sea
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who were the servants who stayed with their family
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godfrey, christopine and sass
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annette grew thin and silent when
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after the Spanish town doctor came to visit pierre
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Antoinette calls her garden like the garden of eden, why
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it had a tree of life but it had gone wild- path was overgrown and smelled of dead flowers.
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the overgrown garden can symbolize
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annette going crazy
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tell about christophine as of part one
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she was a present from antoinette's father, she is from martinique and is a black lady she had one friend named maillotte
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why did christophine stay insdead of go away
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"because she wanted to, she had her own reasons"
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some names antoinette and her family were called
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sleeping dogs, white cockroaches
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tia told antoinette that
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they are poor white people that the rich wouldn't look at them, worse than poor black people, her mother didn't like her
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tia took what from anto.
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her clothes and pennies
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what is the symbolism of tia taking anto. good clothes.
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ant. is poorer than the black people and she is white; switched roles
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what is ant. first dream
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someone was following her in the forest
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people said that annette married mr. mason because
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the obeah women made him fall in love
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explain some about aunt cora
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she married an ex- slave owner who had escaped and her husband didn't like the west indies and he died , she came home
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annette wanted to move why
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visit richard, hate her , children
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what is forshadowing in part one that the black people are up to something
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they are not at the villag
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mr. mason wanted to bring who from the east indies
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coolie- servents who would work
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how did the house burn down.
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we can assume that perhaps the servant myra started the fire and the blacks continued it
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what is the significance of Coco
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he symbolized annette and ant. how english men clipped their "wings" and ant. fall from the house in England. english men control them
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cora cursed a man because
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he didn't allow them to get in the carriage
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the symbolim of tia throwing the rock at ant.
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Just as parallels are made between the mother figures Annette and Christophine, so are Antoinette and Tia paired as closed friends, even sisters. Annette and Antoinette, seeking to define themselves, often look at their respective counterparts as reflections. When Tia throws the rock at Antoinette, she shatters the reflected image. This act metaphorically represents Antoinette's movement away from her black childhood and her eventual emergence into the white Creole world of Spanish Town. ( taken from sparknotes)
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seeing the "snake" when she wakes up symbolizes
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how she sees evil everywhere
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annette being taken care of by a servent paralleles with
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ant. in england being taken care of by grace poole
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she moved to the convent in
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1839
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who was the saint of their alter
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st. Innocenzia
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names of some nuns
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mother st. Justine, helene de plana, germaine , marie augustine
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who sang in the chaple about death
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louise de plana
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italy is
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white pillars and green water
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spain is
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hot sun on stones
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france is
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lady with black hair liker her mother
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mr. mason came to see her at the convent and brought her away when she was
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17
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her second dream
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she was in white and walked with someone to in the forest. they went up stairs and he said "here, in here"
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ant. described her second dream as
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hell
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she remembers her mother's funeral as
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mr. mason and chrisophine there , chocolate and cakes
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the town outside of the honeymoon house was
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massacre
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mr. rochester was married a ______ after he came to jamacia but had a fever for ____
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month, three weeks
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The Emancipation Act
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The Emancipation Act is a law which slavery forbids and obliges the freedom of the black people. This law dates from the year 1833
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Why is Mr. Rochester marry antoinette
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After the death of Mr. Mason, Richard Mason, his son, arranges a marriage between Antoinette and Edward Rochester. Mr. Rochester gets all the money she inherits from old Mason: a sum of thirty thousand dollars. He wanted the money to be separate from his father and brother in england.
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the honeymoon house is
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granbois
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the crushing of the frangipani represents
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how he crushed ant.
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what islands is the house on
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windward islands
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at first why wouldn't ant. marry mr. rochester
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she is afraid of what might happen and he laughed at her
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a big moth getting burned symbolized
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ant. getting burned and how mr. rochester lets her go
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a memory of ant. with rats
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she woke up and saw rats watching her and this says her fear of being watched
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the rose falling symbolizes
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rochester breaking the beautiful ant.
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tell about baptise
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found in st. kitts, overtaker of the house
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at night ant. taked about
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death and fear
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Daniel Cosway 's letter
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says the cosways are wicked and slave owners- he is "your wife's brother by another lady- The note informs Rochester of Antoinette's depraved background: her father was a detestable, wicked slave owner and her mother a spoilt woman who died a dangerous lunatic. Daniel Cosway writes that he considers it his Christian duty to warn Rochester about his new wife. Daniel advises Rochester to visit him in the nearby town of Massacre. he says mr. mason was entranced by annette and he could be entranced by ant.
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what three questions does daniel want mr. rochester to ask
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is her mother a lunatic was her brother impaired is she going on the same path
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amelie and ant. got in a fight because
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amelie said christophine was leaving and said mr. rochester didn't like the house either
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describe what happens after mr. rochester breaks up the fight
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As he prepares to head home, he encounters a girl who screams at the sight of him and runs away. Left alone in the chilly and dark forest, Rochester loses his way. He went to an old pastor's abandon home in the forest. pere Lilievre. Finally, Baptiste appears and leads Rochester back, dismissing his questions about zombies and the seemingly haunted road. Finding Antoinette's door bolted, Rochester goes to his room, where he drinks alone, reading a chapter on obeah in a book called The Glittering Coronet of Isles.
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a zombie is a
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dead person who is alive or an alive person who acts dead- show that ant. is a zombie
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why does ant go to christophine's house
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Antoinette seeks Christophine's advice on how to win him back. Christophine tells Antoinette to leave her husband, but Antoinette refuses. Undeterred, Christophine advises Antoinette to go to Martinique under the pretence of visiting a cousin. Antoinette takes the idea a step further, proposing that she go to England, a place whose existence Christophine questions.She asks Christophine for a love potion. Christophine counters that white people should not play with magic, and that the potion will only make Rochester desire her, not love her.
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describe the last scence we "see" aunt cora
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she is yelling at richard for setting up the marriage and is upset, she turns her face to the wall but gives ant. her rings to keep secret and not sell
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tell about daniel' story
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He describes his dead white father, Alexander Cosway, as a despicable philanderer who cruelly rejected him. When Daniel approached Cosway at sixteen, Cosway denied his paternity, calling Daniel's mother a "sly-boots" and Daniel a money-grubber, even throwing an inkstand at him. This encounter was Daniel's last with his father. real name is esau( like bible who was supposed to get money but did not)
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Daniel tells mr. rochester that christophine is
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an obeah women who went to jail and escaped, she is bad and will lie very much
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what does the cock symbolize
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betrayal
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daniel wants money so he will not speak about
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ant. relations with sandi
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the visits in part two symbolize
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As with Antoinette's visit to Christophine, Rochester's visit to Daniel marks a reversal of the racially dictated power structure: the white Creole and English colonial seek help from the less privileged.
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signs of animals during the visits
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When Antoinette sees a cock crowing outside Christophine's house, she immediately wonders if her old nurse can be trusted. Antoinette recognizes that the animal is a sign, thinking, "That is for betrayal." Rochester, on the other hand, does not look for symbols in the natural landscape; as an outsider, he fails to correctly read the language of the West Indies. When he leaves Daniel's house, Rochester, too, encounters an animal, a black and white goat with "slanting yellow-green eyes." However, he does not recognize the animal's symbolic value as a representation of Daniel's mixed race and contrary nature.
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ant is upset with mr. rochester because he
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believes he is crazy
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what is the symbolism of the two deaths
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one that marks the turn in to madness and one that is final
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ant says she was never sad in the
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morning
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ant thinks that her scar spoiled her for
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her wedding day and all days and nights
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mr. rochester calls her bertha because
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" i like the name"
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after their argument in part 2, what happens
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they go inside and she seems sweet and kind and pretty with the light and she gives him a drink (posion) and they went to bed
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mr. rochester woke up feeling sick and one of the first things he does is put a sheet over ant. head, what does this symbolize
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covering of a dead person- first death
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chirstophine dubois used to be
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josephine
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ant. got very drunk and dependent on alcohol and tells mr. rochester that
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accuses Rochester of being no better than the slaveholders he condemns, having slept with a servant and sent her away. Antoinette cries when Rochester calls her "Bertha," accusing him of trying to transform her through obeah magic. She says she hates him for ruining the one place she loved.
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the love potion worked on who,
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amelie
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explain one theory why the potion didn't work
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A concoction brewed in the Caribbean and instilled with foreign wisdom, the potion is not compatible with Rochester's system. When he becomes violently ill, it is as though he is purging himself of any desire or compassion towards Antoinette. ( sn)
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christophine asks mr. rochester to love her
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just a little
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mr. rochester says she is not leaveing him because
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if i can't have her no one can
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a cock crowed as mr. rochester was writing a letter to a motel- symbolized
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betrayal and changing of weather( meaning life is about to change)
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he calls her a
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doll, marionette, bertha
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he gets mad at her in the end of part two because
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she made a promise in his name
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the sobbing boy symbolizes
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An emblem of feeling, the sobbing boy shows how cruel Rochester has become.
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in part three who is her care taker
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grace poole
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reread page 168 to 171
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who is the other
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The Other is an individual who is perceived by the group as not belonging, as being different in some fundamental way.
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the other lacks
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essential characteristics possessed by the group
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the other may have no
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legal rights
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examples of others
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a different race (White vs. non-White), a different nationality (Anglo Saxon vs. Italian), a different religion (Protestant vs. Catholic or Christian vs. Jew), a different social class (aristocrat vs. serf), a different political ideology (capitalism vs. communism), a different sexual orientation (heterosexual vs. homosexual), a different origin (native born vs. immigrant).
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the other group does not depend on
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numerical minoirty
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outsider
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The outsider has the possibility of being accepted by and incorporated into the group; offspring are very likely to be accepted into the group.
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differences of the other and the outisider
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outsider has potential of being accepted. other is lacking traits that can not be given- permenant
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the other's offspring will
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inherit the same deficient nature and be the Other also.
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rhys uses numerous voices unlike
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bronte in jane eyre
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the title means
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the Sargasso Sea separates the West Indies from Europe.
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rhys novel is an example of the
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other side of a story
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post colonialism
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This branch of theory deals with the literature of colonisation (usually of a Third World country by the West) and its effect on the people and the culture of the colonised country. Post Colonialism The postcolonial style of writing is a branch of post-modern literature concerned with the political and cultural independence of peoples formerly subjugated in colonial empires. It deals with the conflicts between ruler and subject, mainstream and marginalized, oppressors and oppressed and, at the same time, celebrates the suppressed "other," challenging the dominant culture and questioning concepts of established authority
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Mr rochster's ideas about Jamaica in comparison to england
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In the light of colonialist and post-colonialist theory, it is hard to miss Rochester's association of Europe with God and purity, and Jamaica with hell and witchcraft, something he directly associates with Bertha: a clear example of racial discourse in action.
