Essays on Wide Sargasso Sea

In Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, Rochester is portrayed as the metaphorical coloniser, who dominates the women he comes into contact with, exploiting and utilising them like his colonised possessions. To explore this process, the voodoo figure of the zombi is used, a traumatised victim...

This paper focuses on the main character of Wide Sargasso Sea, Antoinette Cosway and how Patriarchy and Colonialism affect her psychological health. Madness is one of the central themes in Wide Sargasso Sea, and I have analyzed how her mental health deteriorates because of different...

The conflation of literary forms despite criticisms provide dense dimension to a novel and speaks to the fluidity of post-modern novelists and their contextual circumstance. Recognised by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse are the emergence of the novel as ‘another kind of writing, as a...

If in Wide Sargasso Sea, Antoinette represents postcolonial and feminist rewriting, in Foe the feminist resistance is conveyed by the figure of Susan while the symbol of postcolonial resistance is in the tongueless figure of Friday whose voiceless self survives the ineffectual control of the...

Both Jean Rhys’ novel Wide Sargasso Sea and Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry show a multitude of unfortunate circumstances, with the women being presented at fault. Throughout Antionette’s journey we see a lack of equality drawn out through the character of Rochester as well as objectification...

Jean Rhys’ novel Wide Sargasso Sea, Antoinette Cosway, during her childhood is discriminated for being “Creole” by the children she comes in contact with. Such discrimination leads to name calling such as “white cockroach” and “white nigger”. Antoinette later faces oppression by her husband, Mr....

The impact of loss in both novels is prominent and ubiquitous and arguably the theme of loss manifests itself as the underlying plots of these novels. There is a variation of losses contained within these books, such as the loss of identity due to the...

Wide Sargasso Sea, published in 1966 by Jean Rhys, is the story of the female protagonist Antoinette Cosway, who became ‘the mad-woman in the attic’, in Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre. Rhys gives voice and worth to this silenced character, while exposing issues of racial...

In The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys, Elaine Savory states that getting a valuable insight into the biography of Jean Rhys is inevitable in order to see how she built her real-life experience into her fiction.  Jean Rhys was born in Dominica, which is located...

Hailed as a feminist novel, Jane Eyre represents the Victorian female struggle for independence and autonomy. A bildungsroman, Bronte skilfully brings to light the oppression and inequality facing women in the 19th century, inspiring feminists and writers alike including the Creole writer Jean Rhys; author...