Wide Sargasso Sea : Jean Rhys

 

“Justice," she said. " I've heard that word. It's a cold world. I tried it out," she said, still speaking in that low voice. "I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.”

_Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys 

Hello, people before entering the world of Antoinette let us wonder about the life of Jean Rhys.

Rhys

Jean was a British Novelist born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominia. later on, she was sent to England for her education. Jean was best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea, written as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jean Eyre.

 Wide Sargasso Sea 

is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys. The novel serves a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, describing the background of Mr. Rochester's marriage from the point of view of his wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress. Antoinette Cosway is Rhys's version of Brontë's devilish "madwoman in the attic". Antoinette's story is told from the time of her youth in Jamaica to her unhappy marriage to an English gentleman, Mr. Rochester, who renames her Bertha, declares her mad, takes her to England, and isolates her from the rest of the world in his mansion. Antoinette is caught in a patriarchal society in which she fully belongs neither to Europe nor to Jamaica. The Wide Sargasso Sea explores the power of relationships between men and women and discusses the themes of race, Caribbean history, and assimilation.

Rhys lived in obscurity after her previous work, Good Morning, Midnight, was published in 1939. She had published other novels between these works, but the Wide Sargasso Sea caused a revival of interest in Rhys and her work and was her most commercially successful novel.

In 2022, it was included on the "Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

Wide Sargasso Sea 

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