The author transforms the first Mrs Rochester into an individual figure whose madness is caused by imperialistic and patriarchal oppression. The heroine of Wide Sargasso Sea, the beautiful Antoinette Cosway, heiress of the post-emancipation fortune is created out of the demonc and bestialic Bertha Mason. Rhys's great achievement in her re-writing of the Bronte’s text is her creation of a double to the madwoman from Jane Eyre. The heroine in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, Antoinette Cosway, is created out of demonic and bestialic Bertha Mason from Jane Eyre. Wide Sargasso Sea influences the common reading and understanding of the matrix novel, as it rewrites crucial parts of Jane Eyre. The plot takes place in West Indies where Rochester met his first wife, Bertha Antoinette Mason. The novel written by Jean Rhys tells the story of Jane Eyre’s protagonist, Edward Rochester. Wide Sargasso Sea is one of the best-known literary postcolonial replies to the writing of Charlotte Bronte and a brilliant deconstruction of what is known as the author’s “worlding” in Jane Eyre. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s interpretation of Wide Sargasso Sea. Edward Rochester- the unnamed English husbandĤ. “There is always the other side, always.”ģ. Jean Rhys’s attitude towards the representation of West Indian in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
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