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Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)• Acting as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s famous 1847 novelJane Eyre, it is the story of the first MrsRochester, Antoinette Cosway (known asBertha Mason in Jane Eyre), a white Creoleheiress, from the time of her youth in theCaribbean to her unhappy marriage andrelocation to England.• Caught in an oppressive patriarchal societyin which she belongs neither to the white Europeans nor theblack Jamaicans, Rhys's novel re-imagines Brontë's devilishmadwoman in the attic: she deals largely with the themesof racial inequality and the harshness of displacementand assimilation. 4
Wide Sargasso Sea• The opening of the novel is set a short while after the 1834emancipation of the slaves in British-owned Jamaica – thetext is divided into three parts:• the first is told in the heroine’s own words and deals withher childhood experience in Jamaica, including her mother'smental instability and her learning disabled brother's tragicdeath;• in the second young Mr Rochester describeshis arrival in the West Indies, his marriageand its disastrous sequel;• the last part is once more narrated mainly bythe heroine but the scene is now England andshe writes from the attic room in Thornfield Hall…5
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