Wide Sargasso Sea Identity Essay

Crash Of Race, Gender, And Identity Of Antionette In Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys redefines herself her myth of women's reality and postulates the only viable solution to problems inherent in that reality. Using a character created by another women novelists struggling with the problem of identity. Rhys creates a masterpiece within the framework of another masterpiece. She substantiates her recurring theme of merging, overlapping time and also brings an added insight to Charlotte Bronte's nineteenth century novel, Jane Eyre, a work Rhys intuitively responded to in terms which contemporary readers are just beginning to understand. This novel is the story of a young, white Creole women, is set against the background of slavery and within the colonial race relations of the West Indies that her life is structured and connected. Tia was there. She beckoned me and when I hesitated, she laughed. I heard her say , you frightened?... I called Tia! and jumped and woke (189) Antionette calls Tia's

and overlap are central to Wide Sargasso Sea. The multiple operations and their effects delicate and explicit, violent and hidden that engineer and structure these politics are foreground throughout the novel and account for Antoinette's identity and psychology, her own racism as well as her obedience. It is this background and mixed cultural heritage which shows Antionette along with the subjects of colonial politics. Despite of her background as the daughter of a business man it is the former slave Christophine, who cared for her mother and her, whom Antionette most consistently trusts and loves. Even though Antoinette's education and conditioning have taught her that it is her destiny to marry, to attach herself in love to the security and safety that being married to a white English man will make it certain . she can never understand, trust, or accept the English version of truth or