wide sargasso sea

After I read the book. I know that “wide sargasso sea” is like the pre-article of “Jane Eyre” . It is the classic masterpiece as a negative character of Bertha’s interpretation and rewriting, Jean Ryhs reveals the imperialism and its patriarchal class through the description of the hero’s unfortunate encounter, and cultural oppression is the culprit of destroying happiness and destroying love and trust. Her story is different to Jane Eyre, Antoinette’s  childhood was living in contradictions, confused, she lacks of Jane Eyre’s unique independence, resistance consciousness. Jane Eyre has no money, but she pursues spiritual independence to obtain equality of social status. Antoinette is very rich, but she “often can not figure out who she is, where was her country, where is the attribution, why she was born,” Antoinette’s character formed with the environment she lived. She lacks a sense of belonging, so lack of self-confidence, feel lonely, helpless. Because there is no clear self, lack of security, she will only escape the reality, to seek the dream of the home, she must be recognized by others to confirm the existence of self, let alone the spirit of independence. So we can see that she was trying to find an ideal home in the whole story after she lost the first home. However, her last ideal home is in the marriage with Rochester, this time under the oppression of imperialism and masculinity, she completely lost herself, freedom and light, and her dream of her home was completely lost with her self Shattered. Antoinette’s fate became a tragedy is created by the imperialism.