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A 5 page research paper/essay that discusses the differences between the Rochester in Bronte's novel and the Rochester in Jean Rhys' complementary novel The Wife Sargasso Sea. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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churches that so intrigued people in the nineteenth century. He is the object of her "romantic" quest (Kendrik 235), the goal of her desire. However, in extrapolating on Bronte work
and creating a complementary text, Jean Rhys pictures a different Rochester, a man who is the "immediate manifestation and enforcer of the network of patriarchal codes...that imprisons Antoinette Cosway" (Kendrik
235). In other words, Rhys novel depicts the relation between Rochester and his first wife, Bertha (whom Rhys renames "Antoinette," for the purposes of that novel, but it is definitely
the same character that Rhys is imagining). However, an examination of both texts shows that the character of Rochester, in both instances, is seen through the prism of historical
and cultural context of the age in which the narrative was written. This factor has to be taken into consideration in making a judgement on this character. In Brontes
novel, Rochester confides to Jane the horrors of his marriage to Bertha. She is portrayed as sexually promiscuous and also as crude, rude to the servants, spewing venom at Rochester,
instead of wifely concern. As Nixon points out the description of Bertha is so utterly alien, so "barely human," that it, by way of contrast, highlights the naturalness and
purity of Jane, as a potential, "better" wife for Rochester (267). It also allows Rochester to vindicate himself at Berthas expense (Nixon 267). Rhys tells things from Antoinette/Berthas point of
view, taking the reader to her native Caribbean and showing this character in the context of her world. In this context, Rochester is portrayed as "greedy and sadistic" (Kendrik 235).
Written in the 1960s, Rhys novel necessarily incorporates twentieth century sensibilities. Nixon asserts that Rochesters apparent misery while in the West Indies is "nothing less than the weary complaint of
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