Wide sargasso sea
1. We have stated that the narrator and focalizor in the novel Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys are identified with Antoinette in the first and third part of the novel and with Rochester in the second part. Read pages 89 to 98 and 126 to 127; consider whether this generalization remains constant in the way specified. Why? In the second part of the novel the narrator and the focalizor is Mr. Rochester, Antoinette's husband. However, in some sections of this part he is interrupted, by Antoinette from pages from 89 to 98 and by Christophine on pages 126 - 127. It may be said that this is so because the writer wanted to object to the imagine of Antoinette that was created by Rochester's retelling. In addition, the author wanted to show that Antoinette suffered because he betrayed her but she could not abandon him, as Christophine had advised her to do because she had no money of her own now. When she married Rochester and following the law imposed by the English men, that said that women were supposed to give their husbands their dowries; she gave him all her property. This is evidence to support the fact that Patriarchies imposed their laws, rules, beliefs, etc. over the colonised people. In addition, we can say that these in
The main parts of it are told by Antoinette who is not a white character but a Creole. He said that it seemed unreal, like a dream. There were many secrets in the Caribbean that he could never know. In terms of these spatial perceptions, we can characterize the main places which are mentioned in the novel, the Caribbean and England, as follows: England: For Rochester England was a lovely place, a place that could not be compared to any of the ones he has visited. He felt that here the people he consider inferior were more powerful. terruptions account for the fact that throughout the novel, there is a shift of power. Things which are a symbol of the Caribbean, of the spirit of it. They thought that they knew England because they lived as English people used to live. She did not feel free there; she was in a house where she felt oppressed. This is evidence for the existence of a reversal of power since the oppressed group imposed power over a group that saw the black, colonized people as inferior. A reason for that could be the fact that he felt confident there; nobody or nothing threatened him. Then Rochester started to hate the place. In addition, the connection he made between Antoinette and the Caribbean lead him to despise the place even more. For most of the colonised people, England was a familiar place.
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