Wide Sargasso Sea

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Woman , Enslavement and Madness in Jean Rhys ' Wide Sargasso Sea

Adrienne Rich defines revision as the act of looking back , of seeing with fresh eyes , of entering an old text from a new critical direction (305 . The act of revision may thereby be seen as the act of re-reading a text while in the process associating new meanings with its content This act of revision

can be seen in Jean Rhys ' Wide Sargasso Sea Originally published in 1966 , Rhys ' novel revises the meanings associated with the Creole identity as it was presented in Charlotte Bronte 's 1847 novel Jane Eyre

Originally entitled The Reverent , the novel `revised ' the Creole identity through the re-presentation of Bertha Mason 's perspective regarding the events that happened in Charlotte Bronte 's Jane Eyre According to Ingram and Prondzynski , the novel stands as a daughter 's protest against a `mother ' text (119 . After reading Jane Eyre , Rhys stated , I was vexed at her portrait of the ` tiger ' lunatic , the all wrong creole scenes (qtd in Ingram and Prondzynski 119 . The novel thereby aims to correct the mistaken portrayal of the Creole identity through the character of Antoinette

The proceeding paragraph is a summary of the novel along with substantial comparisons of Rhys ' protagonist from that of Bronte 's . The redefinition of the Creole identity in Wide Sargasso...