Lost And Immerses s Wide Sargasso Sea - 1079 Words

Lost and Entrapped in the Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys s Wide Sargasso Sea, written in 1966, is the deeper insight to one of the underlying characters in Charlotte Bronte s Jane Eyre. In the novel, we experience the challenges one faces when having a cultural background and we see the entrapment of characters leading to indignation and hostility between the servants and their white employers. The enslavement and entrapment of individuals form many of the relationships throughout Rhys s novel, not only between whites and blacks, but between family as well. Rhys uses situational irony, symbolism, and foreshadowing to show the underlying theme of how entrapping others can stimulate intense relationships between characters. The oppression†¦show more content†¦When people feel entrapped like this, they use names and actions which create harsh relationships between the different characters. Entrapment is a major feeling slaves feel during this time and the feeling of entrapment is deeply rooted in the oppression of slavery. Along with the feeling of entrapment through the oppression caused by slavery, symbolism and foreshadowing is used to help show the deeper meaning of entrapment. Insects are used to represent entrapment of individuals, A great many moths and beetles found their way into the room, flew into the candles, and fell dead on the table cloth. (80) Rochester and Antoinette are in their room when they see the moth’s continuous actions. Even though the fire kills them, they fly into it anyways. Amà ©lie continues to sweep up the dead ones and then more continue to come. The thing that is killing the moths is what continues to draw in and intrigue the moths to continue coming ba ck. In the Wide Sargasso Sea, Antoinette keeps going back to Rochester even though it kills the creole part inside of her, like a trap. The moths and beetles symbolize the persistence of Antoinette, but also foolishness. Mr. Mason feels trapped, He made an effort to fly down but his clipped wings failed him and he fell screeching. He was all on fire. (43) Mr. Mason clips his wings because Antoinette is annoying, trapping him. Antoinette ends up trapped in the attic of Thornfield but this isn’t because she is annoying. When