Wide Sargasso Sea
Publisher: Norton
This "tour de force" (New York Times Book Review) celebrates its 50th anniversary.
This "tour de force" (New York Times Book Review) celebrates its 50th anniversary.
The story of the first Mrs Rochester, the mad wife in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
In this essay I would like to focus the factors which led to the madness of the protagonist.
The story starts in her childhood and moves on to the marriage to Mr. Rochester. The last part is set when she is already imprisoned by her husband and is setting the house on fire which accords with the story told in "Jane Eyre".
This book revisits Jean Rhys’s ground-breaking 1966 novel to explore its cultural and artistic influence in the areas of not only literature and literary criticism, but fashion design, visual art, and the theatre as well.
Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress living in Jamaica, who meets and marries a young Englishman, Mr Rochester.
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: Distinction, The Open University, course: M.A. English, language: English, abstract: This essay interrogates the way in which ...
Whereas there is no doubt that she does become insane at the end of Rhys's novel, the reason for this is not her evil nature but a destructive relationship along with her transportation away from everything she ever knew into the cold of ...