![]() ![]() This shows how women were unable to escape their prescribed destinies, no matter how hard they fought. When reflecting on her mother’s relationship, Antoinette seems destined to follow a similar path of unhappiness and insanity. The Conway women take the marriage route and it is ultimately unsuccessful each time. Initially, it is important to recognize that the two socially accepted ways for a woman to attain security in this world are marriage and entering the convent. Within Wide Sargasso Sea, feminism is the very undertone, and if you examine it this way it allows readers to understand the role of the patriarchy within sex and marriage, the opression of self, and colonialism. If you examine the work through a feminist lense, you see that the same principles for colonialism and imperialism remain the same, there are powers of which aim to oppress and take ownership of property, and women are no different, and fall under that very category. These struggles still exist, however in different context. Initially upon reading Wide Sargasso Sea, not being versed in Jane Eyre, it was taken as a tale of imperialism, and the struggle of wealth and class despite the ending of slavery. Wide Sargasso Sea was written as a metatextual reference to Jane Eyre, through the perspective of Antoinette Cosway, before her psychological dissent within the attic in Jane Eyre. ![]()
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