Summary Wide Sargasso Sea- Part 3 Quotes and Analysis
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AS Unit 1 - Prose and Drama
Institution
WJEC
Book
Wide Sargasso Sea
These notes contain detailed quote analysis on the significant events and sections in Part Three. The quotes and analysis are also laid out in table format so that they can be turned into que cards quickly. They are also perfect for hitting A01 and A02 in WJEC As board.
The section opens, as the others have, with indeterminacy though
the use of the pronouns ‘they’ and ‘he’. There is also a sense of
“They knew that he was in
finality to the conflict indicated in previous openings. The ‘trouble’
Jamaica when his father…died”
mentioned at the start of the novel has now lead to the death of
colonial figures within the novel.
In Grace’s narration, she refers to Rochester in this way, possibly
indicating that she sees him to be evil both in his entrapment and
“I don’t serve the devil for no
his materialistic values of money. Although this denial of materialism
money"
form Grace may make the reader question her true motifs in acting
as prison guard.
Unlike Antoinette, Grace see’s Thornfield as a shelter from the
“the house is big and safe, a
outside world, just as Rochester saw Mason’s room as a ‘refuge’ in
shelter from the world.”
Coulibri.
She perceives English society to be threatening to a woman
whereas Thornfield becomes a refugee for her. This may offer both
“the world… can be a black and
a societal comment on the threats posed to an unemployed, lower
cruel world to a woman”
class woman as well as a comment on the quality of Mr Rochester's
treatment of his English staff in comparison to his staff at Granbois.
Antoinette’s ‘own darkness’ may be perceived as a metaphor for her
madness, relating the dark (Thanatos=destruction and death) to the
“that girl who lives in her own
hysteria of a woman. Although, Grace’s observations about her
darkness…she hasn't lost her
‘spirt’ may imply that Rochester didn’t destroy Antoinette’s sense of
spirit.”
selfhood, supporting the feminist view that Antoinette is empowered
in her mental liberation by the end of the narrative.
Antoinette’s Narration
Quote Analysis
As windows are often used to symbolise freedom, the absence of
“one window high up” one implies that for Antoinette freedom is a far away concept. She
has become fully entrapped.
Nature becomes austere a and artificial at Thornfield, in stark
contrast to the excess of it in the West Indies. This may become
“carved with fruit and flowers”
indicative of Antoinette’s passionate and sensual nature being both
out of place and surpassed in England
“I saw Antoinette drifting out of As mirrors have previously been used to symbolise selfhood, here
the window with…her looking- her identity had faded and been erased. This loss of selfhood has
glass” led to a sense of self alienation.
This sense of self-alienation is contributed to by the use of third
“The girl I saw was myself yet not
person indefinite narration. Her physical appearance becomes an
quite myself”
embodiment for her loss of spiritual and mental selfhood.
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