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She apparently dies when Antoinette is at school, but the exact cause of her death is never made clear, and later even the timing of her passing is called into question. After the fire that destroys her family home, she attempts to kill her husband and is locked away for the remainder of her days. Cast as an outsider, she feels alternately abandoned and persecuted, and her instinct for self-preservation ultimately leads to her mental breakdown. A white woman born in Martinique, Annette has never been accepted by the black Jamaicans. She is the much-younger second wife of Alexander Cosway, and later of Mr. Annette Cosway MasonĪntoinette's gorgeous but troubled mother.

She is also called 'Bertha' and 'Marionetta' by Rochester. The rest of the tale describes how life with an uncomprehending and unloving husband sends Antoinette, like her mother before her, to the brink of madness and beyond. The tumult and trauma drive Antoinette's mother over the edge, and, with no living blood relations, Antoinette is pushed into a marriage with a nameless Englishman (Brontë's Mr. After an escalating series of violent encounters with the newly-freed blacks on the island, Antoinette and her family of white Creoles are forced to flee from their estate.

When the work begins, Antoinette is a lonely young girl growing up in post-Emacipation Jamaica. In Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys imagines the past of Brontë's deranged maniac, whom she depicts with sympathetic understanding. The novella's protagonist and a character based on the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Buy Study Guide Antoinette Cosway Mason Rochester

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