Wide Sargasso Sea

jean rhys

martinique

caulibri estate

he was there neighbor but grew tired of waiting for the emancipation act and swam out to sea

godfrey, christopine and sass

after the Spanish town doctor came to visit pierre

it had a tree of life but it had gone wild- path was overgrown and smelled of dead flowers.

annette going crazy

she was a present from antoinette's father, she is from martinique and is a black lady she had one friend named maillotte

"because she wanted to, she had her own reasons"

sleeping dogs, white cockroaches

they are poor white people that the rich wouldn't look at them, worse than poor black people, her mother didn't like her

her clothes and pennies

ant. is poorer than the black people and she is white; switched roles

someone was following her in the forest

the obeah women made him fall in love

she married an ex- slave owner who had escaped and her husband didn't like the west indies and he died , she came home

visit richard, hate her , children

they are not at the villag

coolie- servents who would work

we can assume that perhaps the servant myra started the fire and the blacks continued it

he symbolized annette and ant. how english men clipped their "wings" and ant. fall from the house in England. english men control them

he didn't allow them to get in the carriage

Just as parallels are made between the mother figures Annette and Christophine, so are Antoinette and Tia paired as closed friends, even sisters. Annette and Antoinette, seeking to define themselves, often look at their respective counterparts as reflections. When Tia throws the rock at Antoinette, she shatters the reflected image. This act metaphorically represents Antoinette's movement away from her black childhood and her eventual emergence into the white Creole world of Spanish Town. ( taken from sparknotes)

how she sees evil everywhere

ant. in england being taken care of by grace poole

1839

st. Innocenzia

mother st. Justine, helene de plana, germaine , marie augustine

louise de plana

white pillars and green water

hot sun on stones

lady with black hair liker her mother

17

she was in white and walked with someone to in the forest. they went up stairs and he said "here, in here"

hell

mr. mason and chrisophine there , chocolate and cakes

massacre

month, three weeks

The Emancipation Act is a law which slavery forbids and obliges the freedom of the black people. This law dates from the year 1833

After the death of Mr. Mason, Richard Mason, his son, arranges a marriage between Antoinette and Edward Rochester. Mr. Rochester gets all the money she inherits from old Mason: a sum of thirty thousand dollars. He wanted the money to be separate from his father and brother in england.

granbois

how he crushed ant.

windward islands

she is afraid of what might happen and he laughed at her

ant. getting burned and how mr. rochester lets her go

she woke up and saw rats watching her and this says her fear of being watched

rochester breaking the beautiful ant.

found in st. kitts, overtaker of the house

death and fear

says the cosways are wicked and slave owners- he is "your wife's brother by another lady- The note informs Rochester of Antoinette's depraved background: her father was a detestable, wicked slave owner and her mother a spoilt woman who died a dangerous lunatic. Daniel Cosway writes that he considers it his Christian duty to warn Rochester about his new wife. Daniel advises Rochester to visit him in the nearby town of Massacre. he says mr. mason was entranced by annette and he could be entranced by ant.

is her mother a lunatic was her brother impaired is she going on the same path

amelie said christophine was leaving and said mr. rochester didn't like the house either

As he prepares to head home, he encounters a girl who screams at the sight of him and runs away. Left alone in the chilly and dark forest, Rochester loses his way. He went to an old pastor's abandon home in the forest. pere Lilievre. Finally, Baptiste appears and leads Rochester back, dismissing his questions about zombies and the seemingly haunted road. Finding Antoinette's door bolted, Rochester goes to his room, where he drinks alone, reading a chapter on obeah in a book called The Glittering Coronet of Isles.

dead person who is alive or an alive person who acts dead- show that ant. is a zombie

Antoinette seeks Christophine's advice on how to win him back. Christophine tells Antoinette to leave her husband, but Antoinette refuses. Undeterred, Christophine advises Antoinette to go to Martinique under the pretence of visiting a cousin. Antoinette takes the idea a step further, proposing that she go to England, a place whose existence Christophine questions.She asks Christophine for a love potion. Christophine counters that white people should not play with magic, and that the potion will only make Rochester desire her, not love her.

she is yelling at richard for setting up the marriage and is upset, she turns her face to the wall but gives ant. her rings to keep secret and not sell

He describes his dead white father, Alexander Cosway, as a despicable philanderer who cruelly rejected him. When Daniel approached Cosway at sixteen, Cosway denied his paternity, calling Daniel's mother a "sly-boots" and Daniel a money-grubber, even throwing an inkstand at him. This encounter was Daniel's last with his father. real name is esau( like bible who was supposed to get money but did not)

an obeah women who went to jail and escaped, she is bad and will lie very much

betrayal

ant. relations with sandi

As with Antoinette's visit to Christophine, Rochester's visit to Daniel marks a reversal of the racially dictated power structure: the white Creole and English colonial seek help from the less privileged.

When Antoinette sees a cock crowing outside Christophine's house, she immediately wonders if her old nurse can be trusted. Antoinette recognizes that the animal is a sign, thinking, "That is for betrayal." Rochester, on the other hand, does not look for symbols in the natural landscape; as an outsider, he fails to correctly read the language of the West Indies. When he leaves Daniel's house, Rochester, too, encounters an animal, a black and white goat with "slanting yellow-green eyes." However, he does not recognize the animal's symbolic value as a representation of Daniel's mixed race and contrary nature.

believes he is crazy

one that marks the turn in to madness and one that is final

morning

her wedding day and all days and nights

" i like the name"

they go inside and she seems sweet and kind and pretty with the light and she gives him a drink (posion) and they went to bed

covering of a dead person- first death

josephine

accuses Rochester of being no better than the slaveholders he condemns, having slept with a servant and sent her away. Antoinette cries when Rochester calls her "Bertha," accusing him of trying to transform her through obeah magic. She says she hates him for ruining the one place she loved.

amelie

A concoction brewed in the Caribbean and instilled with foreign wisdom, the potion is not compatible with Rochester's system. When he becomes violently ill, it is as though he is purging himself of any desire or compassion towards Antoinette. ( sn)

just a little

if i can't have her no one can

betrayal and changing of weather( meaning life is about to change)

doll, marionette, bertha

she made a promise in his name

An emblem of feeling, the sobbing boy shows how cruel Rochester has become.

grace poole

:)

The Other is an individual who is perceived by the group as not belonging, as being different in some fundamental way.

essential characteristics possessed by the group

legal rights

a different race (White vs. non-White), a different nationality (Anglo Saxon vs. Italian), a different religion (Protestant vs. Catholic or Christian vs. Jew), a different social class (aristocrat vs. serf), a different political ideology (capitalism vs. communism), a different sexual orientation (heterosexual vs. homosexual), a different origin (native born vs. immigrant).

numerical minoirty

The outsider has the possibility of being accepted by and incorporated into the group; offspring are very likely to be accepted into the group.

outsider has potential of being accepted. other is lacking traits that can not be given- permenant

inherit the same deficient nature and be the Other also.

bronte in jane eyre

the Sargasso Sea separates the West Indies from Europe.

other side of a story

This branch of theory deals with the literature of colonisation (usually of a Third World country by the West) and its effect on the people and the culture of the colonised country. Post Colonialism The postcolonial style of writing is a branch of post-modern literature concerned with the political and cultural independence of peoples formerly subjugated in colonial empires. It deals with the conflicts between ruler and subject, mainstream and marginalized, oppressors and oppressed and, at the same time, celebrates the suppressed "other," challenging the dominant culture and questioning concepts of established authority

In the light of colonialist and post-colonialist theory, it is hard to miss Rochester's association of Europe with God and purity, and Jamaica with hell and witchcraft, something he directly associates with Bertha: a clear example of racial discourse in action.