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Wide Sargasso SeaPresentation of Women

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Learning Aims

We are learning to...• Understand how JR makes

presents women• Select and explain quotations from

the novel• Evaluate the language and

structure from a feminist perspectiveS4L: Resourcefulness and

independence


What are the links between Jane

and Antoinette?


Think back to our first lesson on Women

What are the characteristics of an ideal woman?


Think back to our first lesson on Women

What are the characteristics of an ideal woman?

Do these women have these characteristics?


Structure


"You are always calling on God," she said. "Do you believe in God?"

"Of course, of course I believe in the power and wisdom of my creator."

She raised her eyebrows and the corners of her mouth turned down in a questioning mocking way.

. . . "And you," I said. "Do you believe in God?"

"It doesn't matter," she answered calmly, "what I believe or you believe, because we can do nothing about it, we are like these." She flicked a dead moth off the table.'" [Rhys 76-77]


I went to parts of Coulibri that I had not seen, where there was no road, no path, no track. And if the razor grass cut my legs and arms I would think "It's better than people." Black ants or red ones, tall nests swarming with white ants, rain that soaked me to the skin -- once I saw a snake. All better than people.

Better. Better, better than people.

Watching the red and yellow flowers in the sun thinking of nothing, it was as if a door opened and I was somewhere else, something else. Not myself any longer. [16]


Success CriteriaSkilled Writing will

1.Have a quote that links to the portrayal of the character

2.Explain how the quotation enriches the characterisation

Excellent Writingwill

1.Have a range of precise quotes that link to the portrayal of the character

2.Explanation begins to develop precise, perceptive identification of the characterisation


• The characteristically modern anxieties present in Wide Sargasso Sea results in a female protagonist who, although existing in roughly the same time period as Jane and experiencing much of the same challenges, represents a much more modern conception of a woman. Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea can each be seen as feminist texts when considering their social and historical context, but Wide Sargasso Sea presents a more post-modern form of feminism which takes into account the complexity of male-female interaction to find that efforts to transcend deep-set gender norms are nearly hopeless.

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