The Origin of Antoinette’s Tragedy in Wild Sargasso Sea: Oppression from Colonialism and Patriarchy

Haixia Yin

Article ID: 6622
Vol 7, Issue 5, 2024

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Abstract


Wild Sargasso Sea is a classical work that deconstructs and rewrites the antagonist, the madwoman in the attic, in Jane Eyre. Jane
Rhys describes Bertha’s whole life misfortune from her childhood, marriage, to final miserable death through her vocal representation of her
silence, criticizes female’s oppression and devastation under colonialism and patriarchal society, reveals the process in which female gradually lose themselves and their marginalized female consciousness. This paper attempts to analyzes Wild Sargasso Sea through the perspectives
of postcolonialism and feminism, to explore that colonialism and patriarchy are the real roots of heroine’s tragedy.

Keywords


Wild Sargasso Sea; Colonialism; Patriarchy; Feminism

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18686/ijmss.v7i5.6622

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