'Wide Sargasso Sea' by Jean Rhys
'Wide Sargasso Sea' by Jean Rhys Introduction :- Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys that retells the story of Bertha Mason, a character from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. The novel is a postcolonial work that explores themes of race, Caribbean history, and the power of relationships between men and women. The book details the life of Antoinette Mason (known in Jane Eyre as Bertha), a West Indian who marries an unnamed man in Jamaica and returns with him to his home in England. Locked in a loveless marriage and settled in an inhospitable climate, Antoinette goes mad and is frequently violent. Her husband confines her to the attic of his house at Thornfield. Share your thoughts about the concept of the hysterical female (madwoman in the attic) with reference to Rhys' novel. How is insanity/madness portrayed in the narrative of the text? A-1. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys explores the idea of the "hysterical female" or &quo