5/10/2023 0 Comments Wide sargasso sea bertha mason![]() ![]() Antoinette, as the author comes to call Bertha, has been brought up in an atmosphere of magic and evil and madness, with a black servant who is an obeah woman, a sort of witch or maybe more like the Mexican curandera. She writes the story of a young Creole (white) girl whose father died and whose mother went insane. The author runs into a couple of problems. So Wide Sargasso Sea is Jean Rhys’ attempt to tell the other side of the story, Bertha’s story. ![]() ‘That’s only one side-the English side’ sort of thing.” I remember being quite shocked, and when I re-read it rather annoyed. Of course, Charlotte Bronte makes her own world, of course she convinces you, and that makes the poor Creole lunatic all the more dreadful. “I came to England between sixteen and seventeen, a very impressionable age and Jane Eyre was one of the books I read then. ![]() At least, the novel started out to be Bertha’s story. Rochester’s wife in Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre. It is the story of Bertha Mason, the madwoman who is Mr. Wide Sargasso Sea is the only one of her novels set in the West Indies. She spent her childhood in Dominica, then was taken to England, and only revisited Dominica once during her adult years. Jean Rhys was born in Dominica (West Indies) to a Welsh father and a white West Indian mother. ![]()
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