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The Origin of Antoinette’s Tragedy in Wild Sargasso Sea: Oppression from Colonialism and Patriarchy
Haixia Yin
International Journal of Mathematics and Systems Science 2024, 7(5); https://doi.org/10.18686/ijmss.v7i5.6622
Submitted:24 May 2024
Accepted:24 May 2024
Published:27 May 2024
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.
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