![]() It is a story of how growing up in a place of wild beauty shapes people. More than this it is a story of colonialism, relationships between blacks and whites on the island, of men to women, of Europe to its cast off children, of order to chaos. The book is the story of the first Mrs Rochester, the one who winds up as a mad woman. ![]() The work is a kind of prequel to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847). Wide Sargasso Sea is set in the late 1830s to early 1840s. ![]() ![]() I still firmly believe this but I will talk a bit more on Jean Rhys as a person because I think there are important things to be learned from the fusing of her life and work. Normally I see the life of an author as sort of an interesting side note, not as a central part of our understanding of a book.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |