I thought the novel Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys was really interesting because the novel tells and illustrates the life of a character that is only shown as crazy and insane named Bertha. In Jane Eyre, Bertha who is also known as Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea is only shown from the perspectives of Jane but mostly from the perspective of Rochester. In Jane Eyre, Bertha is a character who is hidden from everyone. But when Jane Eyre finds about Bertha, Jane and others only see her as crazy and a threat. In Wide Sargasso Sea, the authors show the readers how difficult Antoinette’s life really was. Antoinette was a Creole girl in the estates of Jamaica but throughout the book, she has neither been accepted in the Whites nor the blacks. She was neglected by her own mother who was known as a lunatic by others. The only friend Antoinette made named Tia betrayed her for the pennies that Antoinette received from her nurse. When Antoinette finally liked her school, her stepfather decides to use her for profit. She gets married to Rochester who only married her for the real estate she obtained from her other. Rochester started to see that Antoinette by the day is happy and enjoying her surrounding but by night she shares her fears and nightmares she has when she sleeps. Instead of understanding Rochester only uses her for his own sexual pleasure. I think it is very unfair of the way Antoinette is shown in Jane Eyre. She has been through so much in life since she was a young girl. Instead of being kind and helping her, almost everyone used her and never shown compassion towards her. Yes later she gets worse, but anyone would go crazy after going through Antoinette has gone through.