Download or read book Narrative Ways of Worldmaking in Charlotte Bront s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys s Wide Sargasso Sea written by Silvia Schilling and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: MA Hauptseminar: Cultural Ways of Worldmaking, language: English, abstract: Within this paper, the "worldmaking" of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" (1847) and Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea" (1966) is compared. This is especially fruitful because the fictional worlds of these novels are connected: In "Jane Eyre", Mr. Rochester has a hidden wife called Bertha Mason. Wide Sargasso Sea casts this character as its protagonist and covers her journey from childhood into adulthood, when she becomes a part of Jane Eyre's world. After an introduction of Nelson Goodman ́s term "worldmaking" and several of its characteristics, the worlds of these two novels are compared, focusing specifically on the respective selection of characters, perspectivization and the semantization of space.
Download or read book Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys as a Postcolonial Response to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte written by Malgorzata Swietlik and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,00, University of Koblenz-Landau (Anglistik), course: Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures, language: English, abstract: 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. The novel written by Jean Rhys tells the story of Jane Eyre's protagonist, Edward Rochester. The plot takes place in West Indies where Rochester met his first wife, Bertha Antoinette Mason. Wide Sargasso Sea influences the common reading and understanding of the matrix novel, as it rewrites crucial parts of 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. 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 of Wide Sargasso Sea, the beautiful Antoinette Cosway, heiress of the post-emancipation fortune is created out of the demonc and bestialic Bertha Mason. The author transforms the first Mrs Rochester into an individual figure whose madness is caused by imperialistic and patriarchal oppression The vision of Bertha/Antoinette as an insane offspring from a family plagued by madness is no longer plausible to the reader. In this essay I would like to focus the factors which led to the madness of the protagonist. Although Bertha Mason and Jane Eyre seem to be enemies and contradictory characters in the Victorian novel, many critics find several similarities between the two heroines, their life and finally between Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea. Seeing Jane Eyre and Antoinette Cosway as sisters and doubles is very popular with some critics who dealt with the works of Charlotte Bronte and Jean Rhys. Nevertheless, I would like to focus in this essay on Gayatri Chakravort
Download or read book An Enhanced Reading of Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea Considering Source Texts Other than Jane Eyre written by Sophia Sharpe and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Jean Rhys utilises a backdrop of potent gothic mechanisms and echoes the stricken anarchy of post emancipation colonial rule in 'Wide Sargasso Sea' to enhance the audience’s reading and to enable her protagonist to hold a slanted mirror to the world of 'Jane Eyre'. Rhys utilises a backdrop of potent gothic mechanisms and echoes the stricken anarchy of post emancipation colonial rule in her writing to enhance the audience’s reading and to enable her protagonist to hold a slanted mirror to the world of 'Jane Eyre'. At first, it seems incongruous that the vibrant, post colonialist backdrop of 'Wide Sargasso Sea', soaked by the ‘brazen sun’ (1) should be so richly entangled with the shadowy landscapes of the European gothic. 'Jane Eyre' is punctuated by claustrophobic English imagery to add an atmospheric sense of terror, particularly noticeable in Brontë’s description of the violent Thornfield countryside, where the landscape seems animated by some nameless, feral horror; the beck is ‘a torrent, turbid and curbless: it tore asunder the wood, and sent a raving sound through the air, often thickened with wild rain or whirling sleet; and for the forest on its banks, that showed only ranks of skeleton.’ (p.64)
Download or read book Rochester and Bertha in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea An Impossible Match written by Laura Deneke and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1.0, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, course: The Victorian Afterlife, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Bertha Mason in Charlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre is a character without history or personality. She is depicted as a mere beast, bent on destroying her husband. The reader knows -and dreads- her from both Jane's and Rochester's perspective. Rochester claims that Bertha's lunacy was the sole trigger for the disaster that followed, but the narration reveals hints that suggest other factors may have contributed to the destruction of their marriage. Jean Rhys proposed a past for Bertha and her husband. Her novel Wide Sargasso Sea creates a life for Bertha, on the background of which her madness is neither surprising nor inevitable. 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 England. Wide Sargasso Sea is more than a prequel to a famous Victorian novel. It speaks out not only for Bertha but for all the other West Indian women who found themselves in similar situations.
Download or read book The Postcolonial Rewriting of Colonial Stories Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea written by Christina Münzner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Leipzig (Institut für Anglistik), language: English, abstract: Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre was first published in 1847 in London, at a time when British Colonialism was growing increasingly important for both the provision of cheap labour and new markets abroad. The resulting wealth was crucial for Britain's economic rise and rendered possible the Industrial Revolution as well as an increased amount of political and military power over large parts of the world. Many critics have investigated Jane Eyre in feminist or marxist terms, the former because of Jane's astonishing female individuality for the time, and the latter because of the social mobility shown in the novel (Loomba 2005: 74). But since Charlotte Brontë lived during a time when the British Empire was at its peak, her writing was certainly influenced by a colonial belief system which is also present throughout Jane Eyre. [...] Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys picks up on that notion of the silenced mad woman locked in the attic of an old English manor. Although written in 1966, the novel is widely acknowledged as Jane Eyre's prequel and puts more emphasis on Antoinette's (as named by Rhys) life before she became the wife of a man who is never actually named but is usually identified as Edward Rochester and will be referred to as such in the course of this work. Since the plot of Wide Sargasso Sea starts in Jamaica a few years after the Emancipation Act of 1833, it is historically set in approximately the same time frame as Brontë's text but provides the reader with a much more conscious depiction of colonialist practices and thought. [...] The purpose of this thesis is to examine in which aspects Wide Sargasso Sea can be declared a rewriting of Jane Eyre and what features and characteristics allow the former to stand on its own as a novel. A selection of postcolonial theories will provide the theoretical framework in order to substantiate the propositions that are made.
Download or read book Parallelen der Figuren Jane Eyre aus Charlotte Bronte s Jane Eyre und Antoinette Cosway aus Jean Rhys s Wide Sargasso Sea written by Jennifer Reuter and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-06-20 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universität Hamburg, Veranstaltung: English Classics Re-Written?, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Roman „Wide Sargasso Sea“ von Jean Rhys, welcher im Jahre 1966 publiziert wurde, steht in einer besonderen Beziehung zu Charlotte Bronte`s Werk „Jane Eyre“, das 1847 erstmals veröffentlicht wurde. In Anlehnung an die von Gérard Genette geprägten Begrifflichkeiten kann von „Wide Sargasso Sea“ als einem Hypertext gesprochen werden, welcher in einem transtextuellen Zusammenhang mit dem Hypotext „Jane Eyre“ steht. In Rhys`s „Wide Sargasso Sea“ entwirft Jean Rhys eine Vorgeschichte der Figur Bertha Masons, der in Bronte`s Roman „Jane Eyre“ als geistesgestört beschriebenen Frau von Mr. Rochester. Jane Stevenson deutet diesen Akt des Schreibens als eine Auseinandersetzung von Jean Rhys mit ihrer literarischen Vorgängern Charlotte Bronte, wobei Rhys die in ihren eigenen Romanen stets anzutreffenden Themen der Entfremdung, des Wahnsinns und der Hilflosigkeit einbringt. Mit ihrer „karibische[n] Revision“ von Bronte`s Jane Eyre setzt sich Jean Rhys schreibend mit einem Werk des britischen Kanons auseinander und reiht sich damit in die Tradition postkolonialer Literatur ein. Neben den im Vordergrund stehenden Unterschieden zwischen den Protagonistinnen Antoinette Cosway und Jane Eyre, wie beispielsweise der Nationalität, sind dennoch einige signifikante Gemeinsamkeiten der Figuren vorhanden. Aufgrund dieser Ähnlichkeiten kann der Leser Parallelen zwischen den Figuren beider Romane ziehen. Jean Rhys hat die Figur Antoinette Cosway so angelegt, dass sie in verschiedener Weise an Jane Eyre erinnert. Die Parallelen sind sowohl im Bereich der Lebensumstände als auch der charakterlichen Eigenschaften zu finden. Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich nun mit den vom Leser der beiden Romane zu ziehenden Parallelen der Protagonistinnen von „Jane Eyre“ und „Wide Sargasso Sea“. Den beiden Heldinnen gemein ist das Gefühl, nicht dazu zu gehören, einsam und deplaziert zu sein. Auch haben beide Frauen einen Hang zu Leidenschaft und temperamentvollem Handeln, der zwar teilweise unterdrückt wird aber dennoch besteht und einige Male in rebellischem Handeln Ausdruck findet. Eine weitere Gemeinsamkeit besteht in dem Besuch einer Mädchenschule, welche in beiden Fällen religiös geprägt ist und eine Art Schutz vor der Außenwelt bedeutet. Eine Verbindung der Protagonistinnen besteht darin, dass sie beide mit Mr. Rochester verheiratet sind, auch wenn dieser namentlich nicht in Wide Sargasso Sea erwähnt wird, ist davon auszugehen, dass es sich um diese Figur handelt.
Download or read book Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea written by Loreto Todd and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Sargasso Sea is Jean Rhys's story of Antoinette Cosway, the first Mrs Rochester of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Set in Jamaica, this work paints a portrait of a young girl doomed by society, the past and the future to become the most notorious madwoman in English literature.
Download or read book Wide Sargasso Sea written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"
Download or read book Wide Sargasso Sea written by Vera Katharina Bieri and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fatalism of Prequel with the Paradox of Resistance written by Bryan Goodman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wide Sargasso Sea , Jean Rhys revises Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre through a metatextual logic based in a complex intertextual relationship. Through the presentation of distinctive metanarratives that find their setting and time in the precursor text, Wide Sargasso Sea becomes a metatextual revision to Jane Eyre , and only through its crucial respect for the integrity of Brontë's text is it able to destabilize and derail that text's conclusions about Bertha Mason, by foregrounding the logic concerning her madness, and ultimately its weak assumptions based in what I describe as a narrative deixis. The span of Wide Sargasso Sea is contained entirely by Jane Eyre , in the moments leading up to the fire at Thornfield Hall and in its aftermath, but in this framework, Rhys is able to subvert the conclusions of a romantic novel bolstered by canonicity and redraw Bertha Mason, erasing the suppositions tacitly accepted in the fleeting moment her presence attempts to become disputable in Jane Eyre --when it intervenes in Rochester's pending marriage.
Download or read book The portrayal of Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea and Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre as a Liminal Persona written by Inbisat Shuja and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: A, , course: Caribbean Literature, language: English, abstract: This paper analyses the liminal existence of Antoinette in Jean Rhys’ "Wide Sargasso Sea" and Bertha Mason in Charlotte Bronte’s "Jane Eyre". The paper analyses the condition of the characters, especially the creole heiress in both of these novels, under the light of Victor Turner’s theory of Liminality. In doing so, it aims to highlight the importance of a sense of belonging and a foothold in shaping a person’s identity and sanity.
Download or read book Rhys s Wide Sargasso Sea as a Hypertext of Bronte s Jane Eyre written by Nazila Herischian and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hypertextuality provides a comprehensive system of analyzing any relationship between literary texts. It is a generic architext which encompasses certain genres such as pastiche, parody, and travesty. The main concern of this book is parody. It aims to show how a twentieth-century literary work like Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea can be related to and a parody of Charlotte Bronte's nineteenth-century novel Jane Eyre. The book considers the generic study of both novels focusing on the concept of bildungsroman and analysis of the dream texts, and also character analysis of Rochester. Concequently, the research shows how some elements in Jane Eyre are developed into parodic elements in Wide Sargasso Sea.This book sheds more light on the post-modern concept of Hypertextuality to help the reader comprehend it better.
Download or read book Jean Rhys s Wide Sargasso Sea as a Rereading of Charlotte Bront s Jane Eyre written by Christel de Vries and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The uses and development of Realism in Armadale by Wilkie Collins and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront written by Michael Amos and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2:1, Falmouth University, course: English with Creative Writing, language: English, abstract: While Realism is concerned primarily with representing the world objectively and truthfully, I will examine how Armadale by Wilkie Collins and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, use and develop the genre further by establishing representation as subjective to the perspective of the writer, and therefore dependent upon his inner reality. I will firstly clarify Realism as a genre limited to representation, and how this in turn is fuelled by the characters’ illusory self-consciousness. Focusing on Miss Gwilt and her interpretation of the dreams and shadows, this essay will argue towards her identity crisis and her fall in power. Similarly, by analysing Jane Eyre’s and Mr. Rochester’s relationship, this essay will discuss the ways in which each character is continually striving to dive into the depths of the other’s eyes, while simultaneously keeping their own inner-self hidden from the outsider’s gaze. When concealment fails, and the inner is open to manipulation, the narrative is placed away from them, and their power over their own destiny is reflective of the power we give away to the subjectivity of the perceived world.
Download or read book A Breath of Fresh Eyre written by Margarete Rubik and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions review a diverse range of works, from postcolonial revision to postmodern fantasy, from imaginary after-lives to science fiction, from plays and Hollywood movies to opera, from lithographs and illustrated editions to comics and graphic novels.
Download or read book Jean Rhys s Wide Sargasso Sea and Charlotte Bront s Jane Eyre written by Karmen Gluhodedov and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Figuring the Paradox written by Sandra Cecelia Boyle Henneberger and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
