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Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
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**Quiz Question — *Wide Sargasso Sea* by Jean Rhys** Which novel does *Wide Sargasso Sea* act as a prequel to, reinterpreting the backstory of the character often referred to as "the madwoman in the attic"? A) *Wuthering Heights* by Emily Brontë B) *Jane Eyre* by Charlotte Brontë C) *Middlemarch* by George Eliot D) *The Turn of the Screw* by Henry James **Correct Answer: B) *Jane Eyre* by Charlotte Brontë** *Explanation: Jean Rhys's 1966 novel brings to light the story of Antoinette Cosway (Bertha Mason), the Creole first wife of Edward Rochester, whose narrative is mostly overlooked in Charlotte Brontë's *Jane Eyre*. Rhys explores Antoinette's Jamaican heritage, her marriage, and her gradual descent into madness through her own eyes, providing a postcolonial counter-narrative to the Victorian classic.*
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**Quiz Question: *Wide Sargasso Sea* by Jean Rhys** Which character from Charlotte Brontë's *Jane Eyre* is reimagined as the main character in Jean Rhys's *Wide Sargasso Sea*? - A) Jane Eyre - B) Bertha Mason (Antoinette Cosway) - C) St. John Rivers - D) Grace Poole **Correct Answer: B) Bertha Mason (Antoinette Cosway)** *Explanation: Jean Rhys's novel acts as a postcolonial prequel to *Jane Eyre*, exploring the life of Antoinette Cosway—a Creole woman from Jamaica who becomes Rochester's first wife and is later locked away in the attic of Thornfield Hall as "Bertha Mason" in Brontë's story.*
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