|
|
Society today is the battle of the sexes, men and women competing daily to feel important. In life the feeling of importance can be threatening for even the strongest individual, no matter your sex or race. In the novel “Wide Sargasso Sea” this is precisely the case. Antoinette, the main character, is heavily overcastted by threat. She encounters this threat when she is searching for the proper form of recognition from society, from her own family, and eventually from her husband Mr. Rochester. From the time Antoinette was a child she struggled with being properly recognized in society. Antoinette “One day was followed by a little girl singing, ‘Go away white cockroach, go way, go away’. Nobody want you. Go away” (23). The outside world was a threat to Antoinette, an area that she was almost afraid to navigate. Antoinette and her family were viewed as outsiders, white cockroaches, which further limited Antoinette’s interaction with society . Her only true companions in her life were her mother, Pierre, Christophine, Godfrey, and Sass. At one point Antoinette had thought she had made a dear friend Tia, who eventually only betrayed Antoinette. Antoinette’s friendship with Tia, stripped Antoinette of any hope that she may be equally accepted in society, Antoinette’s character only became weaker. Soon Antoinette’s only connection to the outside world was spending time in the family garden. Antoinette would “watch 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.
|
