6/28/2023 0 Comments Deep sargasso sea![]() ![]() Her ire first manifests itself in the 'red room' scene of the opening chapter, foreshadowing the aggression which Bertha is to act out later. Jane is full of vengeful, raging ire, (of which her name is indicative), and can thus find her literal double in Bertha. ![]() In Jane Eyre, the character of Bertha Mason can be viewed as both an external double and a projected double to Jane herself. Both novels explore this doubleness, between and within characters. Miller maintains that 'doubles may appear to come from the outside as a form of possession, or from the inside, as a form of projection'. I will concentrate chiefly on the duality of the female personae, although I will also consider briefly the concept of doubling across gender boundaries. In this study of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea I aim to consider the representation of the doubleness of selfhood, and how both between and within the two novels a continuous mirroring of double identity, (reflecting like a hall of mirrors), can be traced. She was surrounded by a gilt frame but I knew her and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit The strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face. The representation of the doubleness of selfhood in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso ![]()
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