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When reading Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, it is clear that both of the main characters, Jane Eyre and Antionette Cosway, are distinct individuals that are proved to be unworthy of their communities. Even though Jane and Antionette are two very different characters in different novels, the concept of marginalization, belonging and isolation create a direct link between the two.
At the beginning of the novel, Jane and her cousin John Reed get into one of their many altercations. John is always insulting and abusing Jane; yet she is always blamed for it. When John spots Jane reading a book, he immediately beings to provoke her,
“You have no business to take our books:
you are a dependant, mama says; you have no
money; your father left you none; you ought
to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen’s
children like us, and eat the same meals
we do…our mama’s expense.”
(Bronte 11)
This situation leads to a violent conflict between Jane and John. He strikes Jane with a hard blow. ... Naturally Jane is blamed for the whole incident and harangued by Miss Abbot,
“And you ought not to think of yourself on an
equality with the Misses Reed and Master Reed,
because Missis kindly allows you to be brought up
with them. ... ”
(Bronte 13)
These examples show that Jane is marginalized within her family. ... When Jane finds herself falling in love with her employer, Mr. ... When Rochester admits to Jane that he does not want her to move away when he is married she fumes with hurt and says,
“Do you think because I am poor, obscure, plain
and little, I am soulless and heartless? ... And if God had gifted me with
some beauty, and much wealth… to leave you”
(Bronte 265-266)
Like Jane, Antionette Cosway, in Wide Sargasso Sea, is marginalized by society as well.
Approximate Word count = 1474
Approximate Pages = 5.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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