Essays Tagged: "Jean Rhys"

Jean Rhys Novel

In Jean Rhys's compelling novel about racial tension amidst confusion and anxiety, the author addresses ...

(1 pages) 102 0 3.3 Jul/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Wide Sargasso Sea And Nature

themselves with the places where they spend most of their childhood. This issue is clearly seen in "Jean Rhys", Wide Sargasso Sea. The protagonist, Antoinette, finds comfort in her own homeland, Windw ...

(4 pages) 69 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Wide Sargasso Sea Landscape & identity

past, and the past of everything that surrounds it. In the postcolonial novel Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys, the Caribbean landscape is used as an agent to be interpreted by two different characters ...

(6 pages) 89 1 4.1 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

It is and anaylsis of Charlotte Bronte Jane eyre and Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea

1.Discuss three ways in which Wide Sargasso Sea is a rewriting of Jane Eyre? What do you think is Jean Rhys reasons for re-writing Jane Eyre? (Quoting from the author's letters where she discusses t ... r's letters where she discusses this issue will earn you extra points).Wide Sargasso Sea written by Jean Rhys shows a similarity of Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Brontë. There are a lot parallel ...

(5 pages) 104 1 3.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Authors

"Prose fiction has its dramatic moments." A critique of "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys

xamples from the Caribbean work of fiction, "Wide Sargasso Sea", which was written by Jean Rhys. I agree with this statement to a very large extent because all the incident ... and set out to burn the house to the ground. She succeeded.This is where we see Jean Rhys' Caribbean continuation to the British novel "Jane Eyre" which was written by ...

(4 pages) 104 1 4.1 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Wide Sargasso sea: Changing ways

Changing WaysJean Rhys wrote Wide Sargasso Sea between 1945 and 1966. Critic Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell writes in "T ...

(3 pages) 62 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Good Morning, Midnight. Jean Rhys

GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT, Jean RhysAs the first three quarters of the book was discussed during the previous seminar, I will t ... eptance of life but a recognition of its force.BIBLIOGRAPHYHowells, C. A. Key Women Writers, Jean Rhys. (Harvester Wheatsheaf: Hemel Hempstead: 1991)Maurel, S. Women Writers, Jean Rhys. ... s: Basingstoke, 1998.Rhys, J. Good Morning, Midnight. (Penguin Books Ltd:London, 2000)Staley, T. F. Jean Rhys, A Critical Study. (University of Texas Press: Great Britain, 1979)

(7 pages) 35 1 2.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Good Morning Sasha

In Good Morning Midnight Jean Rhys explores a claustrophobic kind of exile in Sasha Jenson who has been sent back to Paris. A ... and she has unstable control over her life. My intention in writing this essay is to discuss Jean Rhys 'Good Morning Midnight' and see how George Lukacs would interpret this novel according to ... would interpret this novel according to his theory about modernism. George Lukacs would use Jean Rhys novel to support his argument against modernism and he would say " modernism leads not onl ...

(4 pages) 53 1 3.6 Dec/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

"Wide Sargasso Sea": The theme of rejection

bout the era of white supremacy, and reacted to the remnants of the past.Sources/Bibliography:Rhys, Jean- Wide Sargasso Seahttp://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/caribbean/rhys.htmhttp://www.sparknotes.co ...

(3 pages) 30 0 0.0 Jan/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Bertha In Jane Eyre

forgotten and if anything is remembered about her it is only that she was Mr Rochester's mad wife. Jean Rhys after reading Jane Eyre wrote a response to it to tell Bertha's story, which she named Wid ... ies used by both Rhys and Bronte to manipulate their readers' responses to the different novels. In Jean Rhys' novel Wide Sargasso Sea the main character has two names: Antoinette and Bertha although ...

(7 pages) 15 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Charlotte brontes jane eyre an

texts re-written by female authors? Answer with close reference to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea.The Sargasso Sea is a relatively still sea, lying within the south-wes ... e of the North Atlantic Ocean, at the centre of a swirl of warm ocean currents. Metaphorically, for Jean Rhys, it represented an area of calm, within the wide division between England and the West Ind ...

(13 pages) 16 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Search For Knowledge In Wide Sargasso Sea

d he takes her back to England with him to serve as a prisoner in his British home. In this work by Jean Rhys, man's significance is considered dominant but not highly important generally due to the u ...

(2 pages) 6 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Search For Knowledge In Wide Sargasso Sea

d he takes her back to England with him to serve as a prisoner in his British home. In this work by Jean Rhys, man's significance is considered dominant but not highly important generally due to the u ...

(2 pages) 8 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Search For Knowledge In Wide Sargasso Sea

d he takes her back to England with him to serve as a prisoner in his British home. In this work by Jean Rhys, man's significance is considered dominant but not highly important generally due to the u ...

(2 pages) 1443 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Search For Knowledge In Wide Sargasso Sea

d he takes her back to England with him to serve as a prisoner in his British home. In this work by Jean Rhys, man's significance is considered dominant but not highly important generally due to the u ...

(2 pages) 1001 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

The Legal and Social Attitudes to Abortion in England

Jean Rhys focuses on the topic discussing the truth about "lost women" because of the interest in th ... nces: Dworkin, Andrea. (1987). Voyage in the Dark: Hers and Ours. Chicago: Price Publications.Rhys, Jean. (1994). Voyage in the Dark W.W. Norton & Company.

(8 pages) 13 0 0.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Jane Eyre

in her life; this leads the detriment of the female physic causing her emotional and mental trauma. Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) illustrates the plight o ...

(8 pages) 0 0 0.0 May/2014

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

narrative techniques in wide sargasso sea

s The distinction between the author and the narrator Narrative and Wide Sargasso Sea Narration and Jean Rhys' way of writingMultiple perspectivesJean Rhys' novel has two main first person narrators w ... al' or many-voiced novel. By looking at these different narrative methods carefully you can see how:Jean Rhys builds up her story from multiple perspectivesThe novel's form contributes to its themes a ...

(13 pages) 2 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Art Essays

wide sargasso sea

e Discourse:A Critical Discourse Analysis of Wide Sargasso SeaSuzana bt Abd LatifBackground of StudyJean Rhyss in her letter to Selma Vas Diaz writes,"When I read Jane Eyre as a child, I thought, why ... story as it might have been . She seemed sucha poor ghost. I thought I'd try to write her a life".- Jean Rhys-As noted by many, Jean Rhys wrote Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) because she feltthat the first ...

(88 pages) 1 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Art Essays