1.Discuss three ways in which Wide Sargasso Sea is a rewriting of Jane Eyre? What do you think is Jean Rhys reasons for re-writing Jane Eyre? (Quoting from the author's letters where she discusses this issue will earn you extra points). Wide Sargasso Sea written by Jean Rhys shows a similarity of Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Brontë. There are a lot parallelisms in the Wide Sargasso Sea that shows that Jane Eyre was a …showed first 75 words of 1304 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1304 total…character and the culture. She also had a profound understanding to Bronte Jane Eyre. She went into the ideal of just creating a voice for an invisible person and turned it into a very tangible novel. Rhys has accomplished a lot with the revision or voice of the madwoman in Jane Eyre. Works Cited Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 1874. New York: Penguin, 2003. Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. Ed. Judith L. Raiskin. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.