A mere gothic archetype in Jane Eyre, a dangerous madwoman with no voice of her own, the Antoinette Cosway of Wide Sargasso Sea is intelligent, sensual, and perceptive. Rochester, taken to England, renamed Bertha, and, on being driven insane, locked in Rochester’s mansion attic. Your use of the translations is subject to all use restrictions contained in your Electronic Products License Agreement and by using the translation functionality you agree to forgo any and all claims against ProQuest or its licensors for your use of the translation functionality and any output derived there from.Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, a “prequel” to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, tells the story of Antoinette Cosway, a young woman, from a “Creole” family of declining fortune, who’s made to marry Mr. PROQUEST AND ITS LICENSORS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES FOR AVAILABILITY, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, COMPLETENESS, NON-INFRINGMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The translations are automatically generated 'AS IS' and 'AS AVAILABLE' and are not retained in our systems. Neither ProQuest nor its licensors make any representations or warranties with respect to the translations.

This functionality is provided solely for your convenience and is in no way intended to replace human translation. You have requested 'on-the-fly' machine translation of selected content from our databases. This study attempts to demonstrate mostly those focused aspects in Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre that highlight the concept of hypertextuality, including the analyses of Rochester’s character in the novels, as a Byronic hero in Jane Eyre and an anti-Byronic hero in Wide Sargasso Sea and also the study of the characters of Jane Eyre and Antoinette Cosway, as women narrator of the novels as well as focusing on the dream texts of the novels. Moreover, such a postmodern perspective widens various ways of concentration on the literary works, so that, one could interpret in what ways two texts are united and grafted which results in either parody or pastiche. In the case of this study, that is to show, how a twentieth-century literary work like Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea can be the parody of Brontë’s nineteenth-century novel Jane Eyre. This study gains significance as the findings can shed more lights on the postmodern concept of hypertextuality to show that there is no originality in literature and any literary work can be the repetition, continuation, or mixture of previous texts.

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