WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys MUNIRAH BINTI MD SOFI 2011142310029 FARAHANAHIDAYU BINTI RAHIBIN 2011142310025
WIDE SARGASSO SEA
by Jean Rhys
MUNIRAH BINTI MD SOFI2011142310029
FARAHANAHIDAYU BINTI RAHIBIN2011142310025
PLOT CHARACTERS SETTING THEME MORAL VALUES
PLOT CHARACTERS SETTING THEME MORAL VALUES
PLOT ANALYSIS
TRAGEDY PLOT
THREE ACT PLOT ANALYSIS
PLOT CHARACTERS SETTING THEME MORAL VALUES
MAIN CHARACTERS
MINOR CHARACTERS
ANALYSIS ON MAJOR CHARACTER
CHARACTER ROLES
PLOT CHARACTERS SETTING THEME MORAL VALUES
TIMES
PLACES
PLOT CHARACTERS SETTING THEME MORAL VALUES
MAIN
MINOR
PLOT CHARACTERS SETTING THEME MORAL VALUES
SINCERITY
HONESTY
PATIENT
RESPECT
LOYALTY
KINDNESS
HELPING
PROTECTIVE
PLOT ANALYSIS
INITIAL SITUATION
CONFLICT
COMPLICATION CLIMAX
SUSPENSE
DENOUEMENT CONCLUSION
After Coulibri burns down, her brother dies, and her mother goes mad, Antoinette ends up in a convent school in Spanish Town, Jamaica.
INITIAL SITUATION
After a month of courtship, Antoinette marries Rochester.
We know it's odd to describe a marriage as a conflict, but in Antoinette's turbulent world, marriage is an incredibly fraught thing. Marriage isn't a union of two people in love, but a financial arrangement manufactured by her stepfather and her stepbrother. Instead of insuring her security, her apparently well-intentioned stepfather's goal, Antoinette's wealth is signed over to Rochester, thus resulting in her loss of economic freedom. To be fair, Rochester in the beginning seems to have some genuine feeling for Antoinette – remember the part where he promises to trust her if she trusts him? But whether this promise can withstand all the baggage they bring into the relationship…well, that's why their marriage is a conflict.
CONFLICT
Rochester receives a nasty letter from Daniel Cosway/Boyd, Antoinette's alleged stepbrother, who claims all kinds of awful things about Antoinette and her family.
COMPLICATION
CLIMAXAntoinette slips Rochester
some voodoo Viagra, but it works a little too well – after sleeping with Antoinette, Rochester beds her maid.
SUSPENSEDistraught, Antoinette runs away to
Christophine's, and, when she returns, she has an ugly quarrel with Rochester.
The climax, or climaxes, of the novel generate(s) a series of reactions that worsen the situation. Instead of talking things over reasonably, everyone – Antoinette, Rochester, and to a lesser degree Christophine – seems to feed off each other's volatile emotions until they become lost in a blazing mess of acrimony. In such a state, neither Antoinette nor Rochester seems able to distinguish love from hate, and they both alternate between fiery rage and icy calm. It's difficult to know who to believe or who to sympathize with at this point.
DENOUOMENTRochester decides to ship Antoinette
back to his manor in England.Rochester has Antoinette declared insane,
ships her back to England, and locks her up in his attic. Confining her in this way is really only finishing off geographically what he's done to her on a physical and emotional level. Having already appropriated her fortune, he now lays claim to her entire person, symbolically indicated by the fact that he re-names her "Bertha." In Part III, Antoinette's narrative reflects this loss of self through her constant questioning of who and where she is.
CONCLUSION Antoinette has a dream where she sets fire to the entire
house. When she wakes up, she escapes from her attic room and walks down a dark hallway by candlelight.
While it may seem that the novel concludes with Antoinette's setting fire to Thornfield Hall, technically it's only in her dream where she sets fire to the house. The novel actually ends with Antoinette waking up from her dream and walking down a "dark passage." It's true that she says that she finally knows what she has to do, but she never specifies what this mysterious task is. For a fuller discussion of the ending, see our "What's Up with the Ending?" But let's just note here that the open-endedness of the ending seems fitting for a novel that has been driven by conflicting perspectives, a novel that has never given us readers the "truth" of what happened from an impartial or omniscient point of view. No one in the novel is exempt from its relentless perspectival clashing, not even the seemingly cool and calculating Rochester, and the novel isn't about to let us off the hook either.
TRAGEDY PLOT
Anticipation Stage
Dream Stage
Frustration Stage
Nightmare Stage
Destruction or Death Wish Stage
ANTICIPATION STAGE
After a difficult childhood, Antoinette comes of age in a convent school, where all the sermons about the blessed life after death make her wonder whether happiness is possible in this life.
DREAM STAGE
Antoinette seems to have found happiness through a sexually satisfying relationship with her newhusband, Rochester.
FRUSTRATION STAGE
Antoinette's marriage soon sours when Rochester receives a letter filled with malicious gossip from Daniel Cosway/Boyd.
NIGHTMARE STAGE
Convinced that sex is the only way to get Rochester to love her, Antoinette slips Rochester a voodoo aphrodisiac, but he gets violently ill, and sleeps with her maid.
Destruction or Death Wish Stage
To retaliate, Antoinette flirts with a number of men and has an affair with Sandi Cosway. Rochester has her declared insane and confines her to an attic room in his English manor, where she ultimately escapes with dreams of burning down the house and everyone in it.
Part 1
Part 11
Part 111
THREE ACT ANALYSIS PLOT
THREE ACT ANALYSIS PLOT
Act IAfter a troubled childhood and adolescence, Antoinette meets and marries Edward Rochester.
Act IIWhile their honeymoon is passionate at first, it cools drastically when Rochester receives a letter containing malicious gossip about Antoinette. It becomes downright frigid when Antoinette drugs Rochester and Rochester sleeps with Antoinette's maid.
Act IIIRochester hides Antoinette away in his estate in England, but she escapes with murderous dreams of setting fire to the whole place.
MAIN CHARACTER
ANTOINETTEROCHESTER
CHRISTOPHINE
Antoinette - The daughter of ex-slave owners and the story's principal character, based on the madwoman Bertha from Charlotte Brontë's gothic novel Jane Eyre. Antoinette is a sensitive and lonely young Creole girl who grows up with neither her mother's love nor her peers' companionship. In a convent school as a young woman, Antoinette becomes increasingly introspective and isolated, showing the early signs of her inherited emotional fragility. Her arranged marriage to an unsympathetic and controlling English gentleman exacerbates her condition and pushes her to fits of violence. Eventually her husband brings her to England and locks her in his attic, assigning a servant woman to watch over her. Delusional and paranoid, Antoinette awakes from a vivid dream and sets out to burn down the house.
Rochester - Antoinette's English husband who, though never named in the novel, narrates at least a third of the story. Rochester, the youngest son of a wealthy Englishman, travels to the West Indies for financial independence, as his older brother will inherit his father's estate. When Rochester arrives in Spanish Town he comes down with a fever almost immediately. He is pressured into marrying Antoinette, although he has only just met her and knows nothing of her family. He soon realizes the mistake he has made when he and Antoinette honeymoon on one of the Windward Islands. Eventually, they abandon the Caribbean lifestyle Rochester has come to abhor. They move back to England, where he locks his deranged wife in an upstairs garret.
Christophine - A servant given to Annette as a wedding present by her first husband, Alexander Cosway. Christophine, like her mistress, comes from Martinique and is therefore treated as an outsider by the Jamaican servant women. A wise and ageless figure, Christophine is loyal to both Annette and her daughter, and she exercises an unspoken authority within the household. Christophine practices obeah, a Caribbean black magic, with which she tries to help Antoinette regain first her husband's love and then her sanity.
MINOR CHARACTER
ANNETTE MR. MASON AUNT CORA
ALEXANDER COSWAY AMELIE SANDY
COSWAY
RICHARD MASON TIA
DANIEL COSWAYPIERRE
Character Roles
Protagonist
Antagonist Foil
PROTAGONIST
Antoinette is clearly the character around which the
novel's events revolve. Her first-person narratives in Parts I, II, and III frame Rochester's and
Grace Poole's narratives.
Antagonist RochesterWhile Antoinette encounters a lot of hostility
in the novel, none really matches the drubbing she gets from Rochester. The fact that he makes passionate love to her in the beginning only magnifies the hurt he inflicts after he receives the damning letter from Daniel Cosway/Boyd. And did we mention that he locks her up in his attic?Christophine
From Antoinette's childhood on, Christophine serves as a source of comfort and some pretty solid relationship advice. Her behavior at times, however, does call into question how pure her intentions really are.
Tia to AntoinetteAntoinette refers to Tia in Parts I
and III as her reflection. Despite their racial differences, Tia represents how Antoinette, as a Creole, identifies more strongly with the black Caribbean community than with white society.
SETTING•Coulibri, near Spanish Town, Jamaica
1830s
•Granbois, near Massacre, Dominica
1840s
•Thornfield Hall
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MAIN THEMES
RACE
IDENTITY
LANGUAGE LOVE
MORTALITY
Race Race is absolutely integral to the way that
the characters understand themselves and their place in society. Some writers and scholar claim that Rhys’s Wide Sagasso Sea portrays black characters as flat stereotypes – child –like, primitive, animalistic. We might consider how everything is told from a character’s expectations about race are tested by the novel itself, particularly with a Creole character such as Antoinette, who alternately identifies with both white and black communities.
IdentityWhile Antoinette’s constant questioning of
who she is takes center stage, many of the other characters in Wide Sargasso Sea also struggle to make sense of their identities during the tumultuous historical period described in the novel. Character must navigate challenges to the ways that race, gender and class their affect their identities. Their mental states are often altered due to illness, alcohol, narcotics, or even oboeh. Often, other characters serve as mirrors or doubles who reveal unexpected desires and commonalities, as Tia does for Antoinette.
Language and Communication
Language in Wide Sargasso sea isn’t just medium for communicating thought s and feelings but a social force that actually shapes the fates of the characters. It marks a character’s place in society, as when the black characters use a dialect of English that sounds broken or even obscene to the white characters. It can signal the introduction of a foreign or exotic element, as when Christophine speaks in patois, a dialect of French spoken in the Carribean.
LOVERomantic love inn the novel is
constantly thwarted by all the baggage the characters bring into their relationship, including their past histories and their ideas about race, gender, and class. Antoinette is not necessarily exempt from the same kind of racism that marks Rochester’s attitude toward herself and Amelie, as her relationship with Sandi Cosway shows.
MORTALITYDeath for Antoinette and Rochester
become a potent metaphor for all of he ways in which selves can be lost, transformed, or destroyed. The novel plays on the literary tradition of equating death with orgasm in order to suggest how sex between the characters can be a form of control, rather than pleasure.
The novel is also littered with people who act like zombies, beings that are both alive and dead, and ghosts, beings that neither alive nor dead.
MINOR THEMES
THE SUPERNA-
TURALPOWER VERSION-S
OF REALITYCONTRAS-
TING REGION
MORAL VALUES• Antoinette loves Rochester sincerely.• Even they just know each other, she
accept his proposal.• She also always try to comfort him.
Sincerity
• The trouble they had face, make them realize to become honest with each other.
• Antoinette tell Rochester everything about her mother madness.
Honesty
• Antoinette such a blissful girl, she patient with the person around her that hate her.
• She know everything about what other people say to her mother and family.
Patient
MORAL VALUES• At first, Antoinette and Rochester
respect each other.• After Rochester know about Annette,
he starts to make distance with Antoinette.
Respect • Antoinette is loyal towards Rochester.• Christophine asks her to leave
Rochester and find another man, but she refused because her loves towards Rochester.
Loyalty • Antoinette is a kind person, because
she always tries to satisfy Rochester heart.
• She tries to persuade him when there misunderstanding between them.
Kindness
MORAL VALUES• Christophine love Antoinette.
Because of that she always help her and support her.
• when Antoinette sad with Rochester behaviors, Christohpine help her to make obeah.
Helping
• Christophine protect Antoinette and family for ages.
• When other people tried to bullied them, she used her influence in community to defend them.
Protective
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