IOP speechGood afternoon.

For my IOP I will be talking about how Rhys successfully justifies the madwoman we arepresented with in Jane Eyre. To do this, I will be referencing to a number of quotes and excerpts from WideSargasso Sea. The angle that I am exploring is how it accentuates thevarious aspects of her life, all contributing to the unrecognizable image we encounter in Jane Eyre.To start off, I will examine a passage from page 57of WSS, (part 2, section three) and put it against other points inthis novel to draw various possible interpretations.The exchange that we see on page 57 reveals a number of things about both Antoinette and Rochester. One thingthat stands out is that Antoinette never wished to live until she met Rochester it can also be deciphered thatwhat she means is that the sexual ecstasy which she experiences during their intimate moments have given her areason to live, possibly because she associates their physical both of which she proper knowledge of. Their entire relationship seems to revolve around the physical pleasurethey derive from each other, leaving Antoinette .He fuels her sense of confusion and displacement by deluding her with false security that he knows she wants to in attempt to soothe his guilt of using her, knowing that she believed that their relationship qualified as more thanthat. saying, did not love her. I was thirsty for h We notice the incredible impact he has on her: Antoinette gives him authority by exposingthe strength of his words. touches on words and their ability to destroy as well asdistinguishing the immense control he had on her, that all he had to do what mutter the word and it would bedone.Happiness has constantly been something precarious to her. The admittance that she is and that it frightens her more than anything else, hints the profound sadness that she has encountered allthroughout her life. With this in mind, her request to die, though it comes up during asupposedly intimate and sacred moment, demonstrates thehappiest she has ever been and she wants to die happy rather than enjoy it and become accustomed to thepositive feeling, just

to lose it at a very high price. From the time she was a child, she had this perception of notapproaching anything tempting from instilled fear that we gather fromher imparting, Besides that, this passage also seems to suggest the destroying addiction that makes up their bond. Thisdestruction, for Antoinette we discover in a paragraph on page 95 where we note the drastic change in her toneand the sharp contrast in what she says to Rochester. From feeling so loved and content that she wanted to die so she w disappointment.It is interesting that though she saw what her mother went through with Mason, she still allowed the devastatinghistory to repeat in her life. She let herself fall for an Englishmen only to be left completely robbed of anything But I loved this place and you have made it into a place I hate. I used to think that if everythingelse went out of my life I would still have this, and now you hav somewhere else where I havebeen unhappy, and all the other things are nothing to what has He has tainted her one happyplace, but because her heart has been broken here too. In part three of the novel we learn from the little we are given of their bond, we feel the genuine emotion that runs deep. He appears to sincerely care for her actual happiness: offers her a rescue because he as he is aware that she is Antoinette turns it down, possibly underliningthe impact that Annette had on her, obscuring her view,making it impossible to see them as destroyers rather than saviors.

The structure of Antoinette speech which consists of simple vocabulary and mostly short, unpunctuated sentencesdisplays her state of mind and also adds to the effect of the many underlying layers of her words. One elementthat comes across is the been meant toindicate the severity with which Antoinette feels and reacts, as well as developing an alluring atmosphere thatinfluences the characters and pulls at

readers with it oozing mystery and sensuality. Rhys achieves this eventhough the overall tone of this novel is subtle, as if everything is being uttered in hushed whispers so as not tobreak the air of Granbois maintaining the prevailing secrecy that makes up the West Indies as well as Antoinette seems to Rochester not managing to comprehend it because it is all too foreign for him; he appears to blame the aura for theunsettling nature of his wife. This is contradictory to what Rochester reports in the passage from page 57 where hesays, his advantage. His desires and urges surpass his reservations and resistance of novel, while giving us an impression of the surrounding is also rather suggestive.From the line was empty pinpoints the highlight of the environment; the progression of the day communicatesthe passion that grows stronger and more consuming/dominating/blinding alongside it; the repetition andemphasis on the changing lighting could also be a link to the theme of fire that lurks throughout the novel, which isone of the symbols that is intricately connected to the concept of madness.The phrase could also metaphoricallybe understood as the ever changing emotions and seasons of a relationship between a couple. is dissimilar character to the one we observe in Wide Sargasso Sea; having read Wide Sargasso Seaahead of Jane Eyre, is it astounding that Antoinette fills barely more than one paragraph in the entire novel of JaneEyre and within the short range it is depicted as a towards Antoinette:

We deduce that she had left [him] thirsty and all [his] life would be thirsty for what [he] had lost before he drove him to claim vengeance by locking away his

displacement was always evident and we can conclude that the hurtand disappointment inflicted by Rochester promoted the morphing of Antoinette into Bertha; the emerging of thecreature largely overcame her between the elapsed time between part two of Wide Sargasso Sea and chapter 27 ejected and trapped in