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    Feminization, construction and re-construction of madness: intertextuality between Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea

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    2019-12
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    Brac University
    Author
    Jalali, Jamila
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10361/13883
    Abstract
    Even though men didsuffer from mental illness theirs was considered a disease that required to be cured while madness or deviant behavior in women was considered something demonized, wicked and dangerous. The aim of my dissertation is to critically examine Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, focusing on the depiction of madness as form of revolt against the patriarchal oppression, with particular emphasis on the textual construction of female madness in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and re-construction of it by the Jean Rhys in Wide Sargasso Sea. In the introduction, I will offer a brief history about madness, where female madness shall be emphasized; in the following chapters I shall look closely into the novels, exploring the depiction of madness in both the novels, focusing on the protagonist, whose madness is not hereditary, rather constructed and imposed upon her. I therefore argue, that the protagonist, nonetheless, is labeled as a stereotypical madwoman, who is supposedly wild and dangerous as a result of being cast aside by her husband who she was deeply in love with. In my concluding chapters I shall highlight how the author bends language in order to re-construct the image, which was previously established in Jane Eyreregarding the madwoman, the use of metaphors for madness, vocabularies and the storyline, where the oppressed is allowed to narrate the story and in doing so she provides a voice for those marginalized and neglected women labeled insane.
    Keywords
    Wide Sargasso Sea; Jane Eyre; Female madness
     
    LC Subject Headings
    Women and literature; Women in literature
     
    Description
    This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2019.
     
    Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
     
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 35-38).
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    Department of English and Humanities, Brac University
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