Antoinette in Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea"

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This paper analyzes and explores the character of Antoinette Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea". The paper attempts to examine her role as a woman, a native of the Caribbean, and a wife.

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"Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea tells the story of a woman who most readers are familiar with, but know very little about. Antoinette is better known to most as "Rochester's mad wife," from Jane Eyre, a portrayal that is slightly less than three dimensional and, as she is nowhere near being the story's main character, gives little in the way of deep characterization. Rhys picked up the character and gave her a backstory, a history that helps us better understand her "madness" and, in general, who she is. Rhys Antoinette is fully fleshed out, and through examining her text, Antoinette's madness in Eyre and the latter portion of Wide Sargasso Sea is easier to rationalize. "

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