Saturday, December 14, 2013

Words Describing Antoinette

In both Jane Eyre and after she goes crazy in Wide Sargasso Sea, Antoinette is described in a very dark light. However, in Jane Eyre, she is depicted as almost non-human. In Wide Sargasso Sea, she seems more pitiful and out of it.
Words used to describe her in Jane Eyre:
  • mysterious
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • maniac
  • idiot
  • drunkard
  • embruted
  • beast grovelled
  • strange wild animal
  • hyena
  • cunning
  • demon
  • insane
  • monster
Lots of these words describe non-human creatures, as if she is so crazy, we can't even categorize her as being a person anymore. In Wide Sargasso Sea, the words used to describe her are:
  • not myself
  • ghost
  • dying
  • cold
  • fool
  • stranger
  • intemperate
  • unchaste
  • long
  • sad
  • dark
  • alien
  • disconcerting
  • thirsty
  • magic
  • beautiful
  • lonely
  • sad
  • mad
  • bewitched
  • crazy
  • dead
  • blank
  • hate
Although some of these words seem dehumanizing, most of them just seem like Antoinette extremely out of it, and sad to the core, contrary to how she is depicted in Jane Eyre, with a sort of non-human evilness. 
We can use these words to see the change that goes through Antoinette through the end of Wide Sargasso Sea to Jane Eyre.  When Antoinette is trapped in the attic in Wide Sargasso Sea, she seems sad, yearning, and lonely. However, in Jane Eyre, she seems to have lost all hope and has become inherently evil.

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