Antoinette Cosway in Wide Sargasso Sea

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Antoinette Cosway in *Wide Sargasso Sea* is the complex, psychologically rich Caribbean Creole woman whose life story serves as a postcolonial reimagining of the “madwoman in the attic” from Charlotte Brontë’s *Jane Eyre*.

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Antoinette Cosway in Wide Sargasso Sea canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
protagonist
appearsIn Wide Sargasso Sea
associatedWithTheme colonialism
creole identity
displacement
gender oppression
madness
patriarchal control
postcolonial identity
racial tension
slavery’s legacy
basedOn Bertha Mason
causeOfDeath fire at Thornfield Hall
characterRole narrator
createdBy Jean Rhys
diesBy suicide
ethnicity white Creole
experiences cultural alienation
marital betrayal
social isolation
gender female
guardedBy Grace Poole
hasCaretaker Christophine
hasFriend Tia
hasHalfBrother Pierre Cosway
hasHusband Edward Rochester
linked to: Mr. Rochester
hasMother Annette Cosway
hasPsychologicalCondition depression
hallucinations
mental instability
hasStepfather Mr. Mason
imprisonedAt Thornfield Hall
keptIn attic of Thornfield Hall
laterLivesIn Dominica
England
livesAt Coulibri Estate
Granbois
mannerOfDeath jumping from Thornfield Hall
marriedTo Edward Rochester
linked to: Mr. Rochester
narratesPartOf Wide Sargasso Sea
nationality Creole
otherName Antoinette Mason
Bertha
placeOfBirth Jamaica
raisedIn Jamaica
reimaginesCharacterFrom Jane Eyre
religion Roman Catholic background
renamedAs Bertha Mason
renamedBy Edward Rochester
linked to: Mr. Rochester

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Bertha Mason reimaginedAs Antoinette Cosway in Wide Sargasso Sea
Bertha Antoinetta Mason reimaginedAs Antoinette Cosway in Wide Sargasso Sea