Essays about: "Jean Rhys"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 15 essays containing the words Jean Rhys.

1. 6. Feminist Struggles for Identity in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

   University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Nadja Rantonen; [2019]
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3. 7. Mad or Misunderstood? A Study of the Different Portrayals of Mr. Rochester's First Wife in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Hedda Törntorp; [2018]
   Keywords : Biographical Criticism. Historical Criticism. Psychology. Madness. Post- Colonialism. 19th century literature. 20th century literature. Bertha Mason. Antoinette Cosway.; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Jane Eyre (1847), written by Charlotte Brontë, remains a classic, 170 years later. Mr. Rochester’s secret wife locked away in an attic, Bertha Mason, is the antagonist in the novel. However, in Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) written by Jean Rhys around a century later, the character has been rewritten as Antoinette Cosway. READ MORE

4. 8. The Silenced Love Story : The Complexity of Colonialism in Wide Sargasso Sea

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Elisabeth Stenman; [2016]
   Keywords : Jean Rhys; Wide Sargasso Sea; colonialism; social ranking; otherness; colonial mimicry;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to look into how Jean Rhys describes the complexity of colonialism in the Caribbean and how it affected the colonized people and the European colonizers. Her novel Wide Sargasso Sea is considered to be a re-writing of Jane Eyre, but it also demonstrates social rankings and racial groupings in the colonial society. READ MORE

5. 9. Homeward-bound? : The Struggle to Find the Homeland in Jean Rhys´s Wide Sargasso Sea

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Julia Romée Jannert; [2016]
   Keywords : Jean Rhys; Postcolonialism; Diaspora; displacement; nature; homeland; Colonialism;

   Abstract : This essay is focused on the search for a true homeland in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea from a Postcolonial point of view. The main protagonist, Antoinette Cosway, struggles with her mixed heritage which is both Caribbean and European. As a result, she suffers from a split identity and searches for a place of belonging. READ MORE

6. 10. The Concept of Pastoral in Wide Sargaso Sea : An analysis of identity, displacement, return and escape in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

   University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Anna Hermansson; [2013]
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   Abstract : This essay will attempt to show how the pastoral ambiguity is portrayed in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea. The essay will argue that the pastoral is presented through the characters’ idealisation of the former colonised respectively colonising cultures and countries. READ MORE