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1. www.empireonline.com › wide-sargasso-sea-reviewWide Sargasso Sea Review | Movie - Empire

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   Jan 1, 1993 · Wide Sargasso Sea Review. The premise of Jean Rhys' huge-selling, psychological bodice-ripper is an imagined, backwards-in-time projection through the early life of the mad old dear banged up in a ...

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   Sep 2, 2020 · 3.5 (out of 5) stars! THE PLOT: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys is a retelling of Jane Eyre from the point of view of Mr Rochester’s first wife – the mad woman in the attic. Set in Jamaica in the 1830’s, it starts with the disturbing childhood of Antoinette (Bertha) Cosway. White descendants of…

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4. thespellbindingshelf.blog › 2020/03/16 › jean-rhysJean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea – The Spellbinding Shelf

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   Mar 16, 2020 · Ultimately, Wide Sargasso Sea provides a beautiful and terrifying picture of the effects of isolation. Mr. Rochester is a stranger in Jamaica, and Antionette is a white creole girl on an island surrounded by her former slaves. They are both out of place, but do not have a true place either, which drives them to hurt each other in insurmountable ...

5. watch.afi.com › movie › wide-sargasso-sea-1Wide Sargasso Sea - American Film Institute

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   Synopsis. In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his grief-stricken wife and her Creole daughter Antoinette behind. Soon Antoinette learns she must marry ...

6. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › wide-sargasso-sea-1993Wide Sargasso Sea movie review (1993) - Roger Ebert

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   May 7, 1993 · May 7, 1993. 4 min read. She is a beautiful woman who lives caught in a web of superstition and fear, on an island in the sun. He is a rakish, handsome young man from England, out to visit his friends and perhaps make his fortune. A marriage is arranged between them – a marriage no less attractive because she is the mistress of a great estate.

7. lithub.com › read-the-first-reviews-of-jean-rhysRead the first reviews of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea.

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   Aug 24, 2023 · In 1966, after more than a quarter century in obscurity, the Dominica-born British author Jean Rhys published what is now considered to be her masterpiece. Wide Sargasso Sea is an astonishing, hallucinatory fantasy about the early life, and eventual psychological disintegration, of the first Mrs. Rochester—aka Bertha from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.

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   Is 'Wide Sargasso Sea' a good movie?

   • Gradually, worn down by his betrayal and the sly mind games he plays (and perhaps the victim of voodoo), she goes subtly mad. "Wide Sargasso Sea" was directed by John Duigan, an Australian director not familiar to me until I saw " Flirting ," one of the best films of 1992. That was a film about a romance between two kids at boarding schools.

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   Who wrote Wide Sargasso Sea?

   • ‹ Literary Hub Read the first reviews of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea. In 1966, after more than a quarter century in obscurity, the Dominica-born British author Jean Rhys published what is now considered to be her masterpiece.

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   What is a summary of Wide Sargasso Sea?

   • Wide Sargasso Sea is a novella by Jean Rhys that imagines the past of the deranged maniac character from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. The protagonist of Wide Sargasso Sea is based on this character. Rhys depicts this character with sympathetic understanding in her novel.

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   Is Wide Sargasso Sea worth reading?

   • Although this doesn't matter because although Rhys's vision was strong, her execution was terrible, and Wide Sargasso Sea isn't worth reading anyway. Rhys imagined Antoinette as a Creole girl in a gorgeously lush Jamaica, with the story opening at the height of political and racial tensions there.

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   What is Wide Sargasso Sea?

   • Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters.

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   Is Wide Sargasso Sea a prequel?

   • Both a prequel and a postcolonial response to Brontë’s 1847 novel, Wide Sargasso Sea begins in Jamaica in the aftermath of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, which ended slavery in the British Empire.

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9. zeitgeistreviews.com › movies › wide-sargasso-seaWide Sargasso Sea. Zeitgeist Reviews

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   A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love arises, and happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an old secret regarding her childhood a...