WIDE SARGASSO SEA CRITICAL
QUOTES EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Jean Rhys in an interview with observer magazine in 1969. - Answer-"She seemed such
a poor ghost, I thought i'd like to write her a life"- Jean Rhys
Danielle McLaughlin The Paris review. - Answer-"The novel didn't just take inspiration
from Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre. It illuminated and confronted it, challenging the
narrative" -Danielle McLaughlin
Michele Roberts - Answer-"Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th century
and turned it inside out to create one of the works of genius in the 20th century" -
Michele Roberts
M.M Adrian 'Between and beyond boundaries in Wide sargasso sea' - Answer-"Caught
between and alienated from two 'mothers' who have themselves suffered form the
contradictions and cruelties of a cultural system that forces differences together only to
break them apart into rigid categories and hierarchies" -M.M Adrian
Jennifer Gilchrist ' Women slavery, and the problem of freedom in Wide sargasso sea' -
Answer-"The abolition of slavery destabilizes her childhood" - Jennifer Gilchrist
Rose Kamel 'Before I was set free' the creole wife in Jane Eyre and in Wide sargasso
sea - Answer-"Antoinette bears the cultural baggage accrued from the plantocratic
creolization of black women recent in the collective memory of west indies" -Rose
Kamel
Wide sargasso sea penguin introduction by Angela Smith - Answer-"What Wide
sargasso sea explores in negotiation of the space between audiences and performers,
sanity, madness, expectation and fulfilment, acting and being" -Angela Smith
Wide sargasso sea penguin introduction by Angela Smith - Answer-"Rhys hears voices
that Brontes novel pushes to the margins out of hearing" -Angela Smith
Wide sargasso sea penguin introduction by Angela Smith - Answer-"The uncanny
control he exercises over her derives from his powers as a patriarchal victorian" -Angela
Smith
Wide sargasso sea penguin introduction by Angela Smith - Answer-"He has reduced his
wife, who loves him, to a spiritless shell." -Angela Smith
QUOTES EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Jean Rhys in an interview with observer magazine in 1969. - Answer-"She seemed such
a poor ghost, I thought i'd like to write her a life"- Jean Rhys
Danielle McLaughlin The Paris review. - Answer-"The novel didn't just take inspiration
from Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre. It illuminated and confronted it, challenging the
narrative" -Danielle McLaughlin
Michele Roberts - Answer-"Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th century
and turned it inside out to create one of the works of genius in the 20th century" -
Michele Roberts
M.M Adrian 'Between and beyond boundaries in Wide sargasso sea' - Answer-"Caught
between and alienated from two 'mothers' who have themselves suffered form the
contradictions and cruelties of a cultural system that forces differences together only to
break them apart into rigid categories and hierarchies" -M.M Adrian
Jennifer Gilchrist ' Women slavery, and the problem of freedom in Wide sargasso sea' -
Answer-"The abolition of slavery destabilizes her childhood" - Jennifer Gilchrist
Rose Kamel 'Before I was set free' the creole wife in Jane Eyre and in Wide sargasso
sea - Answer-"Antoinette bears the cultural baggage accrued from the plantocratic
creolization of black women recent in the collective memory of west indies" -Rose
Kamel
Wide sargasso sea penguin introduction by Angela Smith - Answer-"What Wide
sargasso sea explores in negotiation of the space between audiences and performers,
sanity, madness, expectation and fulfilment, acting and being" -Angela Smith
Wide sargasso sea penguin introduction by Angela Smith - Answer-"Rhys hears voices
that Brontes novel pushes to the margins out of hearing" -Angela Smith
Wide sargasso sea penguin introduction by Angela Smith - Answer-"The uncanny
control he exercises over her derives from his powers as a patriarchal victorian" -Angela
Smith
Wide sargasso sea penguin introduction by Angela Smith - Answer-"He has reduced his
wife, who loves him, to a spiritless shell." -Angela Smith
