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 ⓘ