Wide Sargasso Sea

or system that transcends nature, as that of divine, magical, or ghostly being,” as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary. William Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte and Jean Rhys utilize the supernatural in their works, Macbeth, Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea, respectively. No matter the gain or loss of power, the supernatural induces people to reach a brink of madness. The supernatural…

First of all, Bronte depicts Antoinette as a character who loses her sanity and becomes a violent ‘beast’. In Jane Eyre, the first impression of Bertha emerges when Jane hears a “demoniac laugh – low, suppressed and deep” and some moaning from Bertha (Brontë 164). The moaning indicates that Bertha functions more like a wild animal than an ordinary human being. Brontë portrays her like a savage creature instead of a human. Jane also hears “a snarling and snatching sound, almost like a dog…

The interactions encountered by both others and yourself results in the psychological and moral development as you mature from your youth. The book Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys is considered a coming of age novel as the protagonist, Antoinette Cosway, grows up only to find herself broken and abused as she faces oppression. The moment in the novel that catalyzes many more events that lead to the destruction of her childhood is when her house Coulibri, is set on fire by a mob, which kills her…

Like an ocean tide slowly but steadily eroding a sand castle, hypocrisy almost always undermines societal values. In the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice, Austen uses Mrs. Bennett to vividly illustrate hypocrisy’s slow and frustrating impact on those around her. Austen creates a satirical tone using foil characters and Lizzie’s perspective to further characterize Mrs. Bennet. By combining these literary devices, Austen successfully evokes a mood of exasperation in the reader by portraying the…

Despite the looming threat of insanity and isolation, Antoinette continually resists the labels being forced on her by the self-concerned Rochester, asserting herself and her beliefs throughout her life and the development of her “madness”. Antoinette’s steadfast morals and sense of personal worth appear very early in her relationship with Rochester. She continually persists against the actions being forced upon her around her arranged nuptials and finally coming light in a grand first clash…

Tanti Merle at the Oval is a story which encompasses features of Caribbean life with the use of Caribbean dialect, humor and cricket. The tale is based upon the mannerism of the writer’s aunt before and during a visit to a cricket match at the oval. The events that take place draw attention to issues within the Caribbean based on identity, gender and sexual relations. Identity is what defines an individual; their qualities, beliefs, experiences and overall way of life. Caribbean people are…

Proposed Introduction: In the novel Wide Sargasso Sea (WSS) author Jean Rhys offer the readers a piece of literature that demarcates - within the development of its characters, their narrational perspectives, and the tactful discursive constructions of the former and the latter- an evaluative analysis of western colonial ontology, its epistemological premises, and the experiences of subjectivities that are defined, and reproduced, by these ontological and epistemological formulations. Bertha…

Triangle” for the first time on an article in 1964. Most writers refer to the Bermuda’s Triangle as the “Vortex of Doom” because of its tragic events. It first became a legend when, in 1918 a USA cargo ship disappeared with over 300 men. “Only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship,” U.S. President, Woodrow Wilson later said. In 1941 two Cyclops’ sister ships vanished as well. In 1945, five US Navy bombers were crossing the area and the pilots became disoriented and vanished. The…

The Bermuda Triangle is known to have mysteriously disappeared since the 1600s. “They used it in an article in 1964 by Vincent H. Gaddis, claimed that in this sea number of ships and planes had disappeared without explanation.” (The Unmuseum, pg. 1). There are a large number of planes and boats that have disappeared with no explanation. Several people have said Christopher Columbus found the Bermuda triangle…

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as “The Devil’s Triangle” is an area in the Western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where hundreds of planes and ships have mysteriously disappeared. It covers approximately 500,000 square miles of the ocean. The three points of the triangle include Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Bermuda Islands. Many of the ships and planes that have passed through are said to have encountered strange occurrences or severe weather. Most ships and planes that disappear in the…