Wide Sargasso Sea (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Rhys
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1830’s
- Setting: Jamaica, Dominica, and England
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Culture, Caribbean, Love or romance, Race, Nature, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Alienation, England or English people, Jamaica or Jamaicans
- Locales: England, West Indies, Jamaica, Dominica, Windward Islands
Characters Discussed
Antoinette Cosway, later Bertha Mason Rochester, whose story constitutes a revisionist treatment of events culminating in her transformation into the famed madwoman in the attic, Bertha Mason Rochester in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847). Antoinette, the protagonist and narrator of approximately one-half of the story, reflects on her youth and the loneliness and isolation that she experienced as a white Creole child in the predominantly black West Indies. Having outlived most of her family, she halfheartedly submits to a marriage with the...
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