As the second son of a rich family, he needed a means of creating his own wealth. But what drove her to this state? What made her this way? Well the simple answer is a man named Rochester. Bronte describes her as a semi-human, an animal that growls and raves as she stalks the hall of Thornfield like some unidentifiable spectre. Our crazy lunatic isnвЂ™t that far from Jane. Jean Rhys has, and she tells it to you in all its traumatic colours. But wha Bertha Mason is the madwoman in the attic she is the raving lunatic that is RochesterвЂ™s first wife in Jane Eyre,but have you ever stopped to wonder what her side of the story is? Have you ever considered that she may have a tale to tell? (less)Д«ertha Mason is the madwoman in the attic she is the raving lunatic that is RochesterвЂ™s first wife in Jane Eyre,but have you ever stopped to wonder what her side of the story is? Have you ever considered that she may have a tale to tell? Jean Rhys has, and she tells it to you in all its traumatic colours. I think that people upset about this duality have romanticized Rochester too much.

When he's out of it, he's manipulative and unstable. When he's in it, he's charming and brooding.

He now has to live with the consequences. He did something horrible, something he knew was horrible, to Antoinette. It's totally possible that the young Rochester of Rhys's novel and the old Rochester of Jane Eyre are the same person. No matter how hard the British tried, none of their colonies became the copies of themselves that they wanted. He wants to make her an English woman, but she could never be that. It's a complicated relationship, like that of Rochester & Antoinette. That doesn't mean all colonies hate the powers that once ruled over them and see them as evil. It was also exemplified by a licentious greed and a need to consume and control. It was brutal, abusive, and exploitative. People who grew up in these colonies, like Jean Rhys, know that colonial rule was not the golden age for them that it was for the Europeans who gained so much wealth. By controlling Antoinette, he controls this foreign place, just as the British controlled and ruled over their colonies. He hates the Caribbean and doesn't want to be there. Rochester lusts for Antoinette, but also feels he must control her. Rochester is a British man, Antoinette is a creole Caribbean woman (White, yes, but not accepted by other Europeans). Rochester is a British man, Antoinette is a creole Caribbean w вЂ¦more I think the most important way to think about this novel is in a post-colonial context. Drawing on her own Caribbean background, she illuminates the settingвЂ™s impact on Rhys and her astonishing work.moreДaniГ«lle Wierenga I think the most important way to think about this novel is in a post-colonial context. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.ДЄ new introduction by the award-winning Edwidge Danticat, author most recently of Claire of the Sea Light, expresses the enduring importance of this work. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr.

With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fictionвЂ™s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte BrontГ«вЂ™s Jane Eyre. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fictionвЂ™s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic f Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean RhysвЂ™s return to the literary center stage. Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean RhysвЂ™s return to the literary center stage.

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