Jane Eyre A Deep Secret Rooted Within Its Very Foundation

Charlotte Brontà «Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s Jane Eyre is a novel that has a deep secret rooted within its very foundation. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea often seen as a prequel to Jane Eyre (as it is set a time that precedes the events of the novels) sets out to unearth the secrets that are hidden within Jane Eyre; it fills in the chasm that exists in Jane Eyre by providing the history of Edward Rochester’s Creole wife Bertha Mason nee Antoinette Cosway. In a 1979 interview with Elizabeth Vreeland Rhys explained her reason for writing Wide Sargasso Sea: I thought, why should she think Creole women are lunatics and all that? What a shame to make Rochester’s first wife, Bertha, the awful madwoman....She seemed such a poor ghost. I thought I’d try to write her a life. (235) Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea is similar to Brontà «Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s Jane Eyre in that they are both novels made up of three parts; the novels both deal with issues of domination and independence that are influenced by the gothic .Wide Sargasso Sea gives an account of Rochester’s marriage in Jamaica; in doing so it reveals a complex web of relationships, social structures, and lives from the colonial island world that are overlooked and abandoned in Jane Eyre; as explained by Homi Bhabha the â€Å"histories we choose to remember and recount† (57) are often biased, thrusting aside cultures and people believed to be inferior and less important by the Eurocentric world view. Wide Sargasso Sea is a postcolonial Caribbean gothic novel that gives voice toShow MoreRelatedLiterary Criticism : The Free Encyclopedia 7351 Words   |  30 PagesAgathon, by Christoph Martin Wieland (1767)—often considered the first true Bildungsroman[9] Wilhelm Meister s Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1795–96) 19th century[edit] Emma, by Jane Austen (1815) The Red and The Black, by Stendhal (1830) The Captain s Daughter, by Alexander Pushkin (1836) Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontà « (1847)[21] Pendennis, by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848–1850) David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens (1850) Green Henry, by Gottfried Keller (1855)[22] Great Expectations