"Who wrote the novel ""The Wide Sargasso Sea"" inspired by the novel Jane Eyre?"
Wide Sargasso Sea its disintegration or even, indeed, its conflagration." Wide Sargasso Sea Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominica-born British author Jean Rhys. The author lived in obscurity after her previous work, "Good Morning, Midnight", was published in 1939. She had published other novels between these works, but "Wide Sargasso Sea" caused a revival of interest in Rhys and her work and was her most commercially successful novel. It is a feminist and anti-colonial response to Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre" (1847), describing the background to Mr Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his mad wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole
Wide Sargasso Sea fulfill the vision. Waking from her dream she escapes her room, and sets the fire. Since the late 20th century, critics have considered "Wide Sargasso Sea" as a postcolonial response to "Jane Eyre". Rhys uses multiple voices (Antoinette's, her husband's, and Grace Poole's) to tell the story, and intertwines her novel's plot with that of "Jane Eyre". In addition, Rhys makes a postcolonial argument when she ties Antoinette's husband's eventual rejection of Antoinette to her Creole heritage (a rejection shown to be critical to Antoinette's descent into madness). The novel is also considered a feminist work, as it deals with