Thinking activity: wide sargasso sea

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 ⏹What is feminism?

feminism, the belief in social, economic, and political equality of the sexes. Although largely originating in the West, feminism is manifested worldwide and is represented by various institutions committed to activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests.Throughout most of Western history, women were confined to the domestic sphere, while public life was reserved for men. In medieval Europe, women were denied the right to own property, to study, or to participate in public life. 

⏹What is postcolonialism in wide sargasso sea?

As a work of postcolonial fiction, Wide Sargasso Sea captures the pathos of a society undergoing deep and bitter change. Jean Rhys chooses to relate the essence of this conflict through the relationship of the white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway, and her English suitor Edward Rochester.

⏹Comparision between Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea.

Wide Sargasso Sea is both a response and a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, set in the West Indies and imagining the lives of Bertha Mason and her family. Bidisha describes how Jean Rhys’s novel portrays the racial and sexual exploitation at the heart of western civilisation and literature.Jane Eyre is told in the first person. Wide Sargasso Sea is told by different narrators; Antoinette, Grace Poole and Rochester in the main, although it also manipulates additional devices for making audible the voices of others.

⏹Comparision between character of Antoinette and Jane.

While both characters have many different characteristics and act in two completely different ways, there are similarities. Both of the characters have a longing for freedom. Antoinette longs to be rid of a husband that she never wanted, while Jane longs to be away from her past.

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Postcolonialism is the critical academic study of the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the human consequences of the control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands. More specifically, it is a critical theory analysis of the history, culture, literature, and discourse of usually European imperial power.

similarities between Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea?

Wide Sargasso Sea is both a response and a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, set in the West Indies and imagining the lives of Bertha Mason and her family. Bidisha describes how Jean Rhys’s novel portrays the racial and sexual exploitation at the heart of western civilisation and literature.