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        <title><![CDATA[The above answer looks to literally at what is told within the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The above answer looks to literally at what is told within the text/narrative. i read this question as the extent to Rhys' motive when writing this  -there's a quote saying she felt sorry for the portrayal of the madwoman in the attic, the ghost, and felt that she should give Bertha a life and a history - transform her from what EM Forster would have termed a flat character into a round one, i.e give her depth. Ultimately the novel is a work...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:36:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does Annette repeatedly look in the mirror?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does Annette repeatedly look in the mirror?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:20:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yes, an author might argue several points in a piece of literature. In...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yes, an author might argue several points in a piece of literature. In Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys makes three related arguments: colonial relationships are informed by a power structure that oppresses the colonized country; patriarchal relationship between men and women embody a power structure that oppresses women; there is a relationship between colonialism and patriarchalism. In this way, Rhys interrogates the subplot of Rochester and his...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:13:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is there more than one primary theme (or thesis) in &quot;Wide Sargasso...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is there more than one primary theme (or thesis) in &quot;Wide Sargasso Sea&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:33:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is a rather complicated question. Briefly, Rhys sees marriage...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is a rather complicated question. Briefly, Rhys sees marriage thruogh the lens of colonialism, casting the marriage contract as a colonial encounter. However, the problem of displacement and a shaky sense of one's own identity are already well established in the first part of the text, long before the marriage takes place.  It seems that Rhys wants to bring the problems of the Creole existence to the fore at the very beginning of the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:03:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[analyse The representation of romantic love and the institution of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[analyse The representation of romantic love and the institution of marriage in Wide sargasso sea]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:43:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jane Eyre tackles prejudice and elitism within British society, but the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Jane Eyre tackles prejudice and elitism within British society, but the madwoman in the attic (Bertha) is something of an enigma. Rochester can see beyond Jane's poverty, and finds culture in Jane (she is poor but she has been well trained) but he cannot see beyond his wife's emotions. Coming from the Bahamas, Rochester's wife Bertha has gained his revulsion because she has an excess of passion. He sees this as evidence of her savage...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:25:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Wide Sargasso Sea is a response to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.  It is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Wide Sargasso Sea is a response to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.  It is important because it presents a completely different perspective of the character of Edward Rochester's first wife. It also explores issues of postcolonialism and specifically the relationship between the West Indians and the English in the post-emancipation Caribbean, exposing the attitudes which allow the domination of one race over another. In Jane Eyre,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:46:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The novel Wide Sargasso Sea is an answer or a reply to another novel....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The novel Wide Sargasso Sea is an answer or a reply to another novel. What was that novel, and what is the importance of this reply?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:37:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I actually think any good character will be flawed and most are,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I actually think any good character will be flawed and most are, perfection becomes boring very quickly.  All the characters in Wide Sargasso Sea have flaws, some are more pronounced than others, but each leads to their outcome.

Antoinette is desperate for affection after growing up being rejected by her mother.  When she falls in love with Rochester she hopes that her love will finally be returned, when he rejects her it send her to the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 9 May 2007 02:57:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The idea of slavery and entrapment in Wide Sargasso Sea is through the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The idea of slavery and entrapment in Wide Sargasso Sea is through the novel - beginning with the title.  The Sargasso Sea is an almost lifeless area located between the Caribbean and Europe where there are no ocean currents and often there is a complete lack of wind - causing ships to become trapped.  It is symbolic of Antoinette being trapped lifeless, suspended between the two worlds.

The Cosway family were former slave owners, their...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 8 May 2007 02:31:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The significance of slavery and entrapment in Wide Sargasso Sea.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The significance of slavery and entrapment in Wide Sargasso Sea.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 7 May 2007 22:33:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That criticism has existed since Wide Sargasso Sea was published in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That criticism has existed since Wide Sargasso Sea was published in 1966.  Many critics of the time said that it could not stand alone, and that it had to be read with Jane Eyre to make complete sense.  Early reviewer Walter Allen declared that the book could not exist in its own right.  Rather than looking at Wide Sargasso Sea as a revenge novel, you could look at it as a novel of isolation, or as many critics see it, one that expounds of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:04:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Role/significance of revenge in Wide Sargasso Sea?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Role/significance of revenge in Wide Sargasso Sea?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:49:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In what ways are the characters in Wide Sargasso Sea flawed?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In what ways are the characters in Wide Sargasso Sea flawed?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:53:53 PST</pubDate>
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