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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a book filled with passion, misery and deceit. It focuses around the life of a strong woman named Jane Eyre, who despite a cruel and difficult life defies the odds and defeats everything that tells her she cannot. ... This woman, Antoinette, is the female protagonist in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea. Antoinette also endures the same dire childhood however does not turn out so well as Jane Eyre. ... As different as Antoinette and Jane are they also share so many similarities in experience; the red room from Jane Eyre can be related to the fire from Wide Sargasso Sea. ...
The red room in Jane Eyre is a very important symbol in the novel. Jane is locked in the red room near the beginning of story after John Reed attacks Jane and she fights back. ... Jane has a horrible experience in the red room; she believes she sees a ghost and it is trying to attack her:
“I thought the swift darting beam was a herald of some coming vision from another world. ... It is in this room that Jane realizes how trapped she has become within the constraints of the Reed house and society itself. The red room acts as a symbol; representing all the hardships that Jane must experience and overcome in order to attain happiness and freedom. ... Although Jane eventually escapes the room, she does not escape social hardships; her freedom, emotional independence and everything she works towards are constantly in danger throughout the novel.
In the novel Wide Sargasso Sea a very different yet similar situation occurs in Antoinette’s life, which forces Antoinette to realize just how different she is socially and how ostracized she is from society. ... This dramatic experience is very closely related to Eyre’s red room even though on the surface they seem like completely different events, symbolically they are closely tied. Much like the red room acts as Jane Eyre’s eye opener, the burning of the Mason house displays to Antoinette the cruelty of people and the direness of her situation. ...
Throughout both Jane Eyre’s and Antoinette’s life they are unjustly mistreated by people.
Approximate Word count = 1802
Approximate Pages = 7.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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