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Analyzing Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), which creates the untold story of the mad woman, Bertha, appearing in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847), this essay digs into how patriarchal power supported by binary reasoning of the Western cognitive framework ideologically defines nomadic subjectivity as madness. In her novel, Rhys assumes that Bertha is ideologically categorized as mad due to her nomadness, and she renames Bertha to Antoinette in order to wash off the disgraceful stigma of the character as a mad woman have her heard as a nomad: Rhys attempts to make an opportunity to speak of madness rather than speaking about madness so that she explores nomadness, or nomadic subjectivity, that has been repressed as madness by the Western cognitive framework.
To show Antoinette’s nomadness, the essay focuses on how Antoinette drifts between the native and the white, magic and reason, and madness and no-madness. Investigating how her husband Rochester from England responds to her nomadness, the essay also features ways in which patriarchal ideology excludes and represses nomadness to keep their privilege. Rochester’s behavior in the West Indies proves that madness is an arbitrary concept changeable according to the master ideology of society. It is patriarchal violence to imprison Antoinette, a nomad, in the attic of Thornfield Hall since it is no more than securing patriarchal power.
Rhys proposes a new interpretation of the ending of Jane Eyre in which Bertha sets fire to the Thornfield Hall. Whereas Bertha’s act, in Jane Eyre, is read as suicide by her madness, Antoinette’s firing, in Wide Sargasso Sea, is a necessary and righteous act to escape the prison and continue her nomadic journey. That ending makes Antoinette a fascinating no/mad(ic) woman that Rhys wants to value against Western patriarchal ideology.
To show Antoinette’s nomadness, the essay focuses on how Antoinette drifts between the native and the white, magic and reason, and madness and no-madness. Investigating how her husband Rochester from England responds to her nomadness, the essay also features ways in which patriarchal ideology excludes and represses nomadness to keep their privilege. Rochester’s behavior in the West Indies proves that madness is an arbitrary concept changeable according to the master ideology of society. It is patriarchal violence to imprison Antoinette, a nomad, in the attic of Thornfield Hall since it is no more than securing patriarchal power.
Rhys proposes a new interpretation of the ending of Jane Eyre in which Bertha sets fire to the Thornfield Hall. Whereas Bertha’s act, in Jane Eyre, is read as suicide by her madness, Antoinette’s firing, in Wide Sargasso Sea, is a necessary and righteous act to escape the prison and continue her nomadic journey. That ending makes Antoinette a fascinating no/mad(ic) woman that Rhys wants to value against Western patriarchal ideology.
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Ⅰ. Mad Bertha and No/Mad(ic) Antoinette
Ⅱ. Creoles and Madness
Ⅲ. Reason and Madness
Ⅳ. England and No/Madness
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참고문헌 신청
1. [단행본] - Appignanesi, Lisa / 2008 / Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present / Norton
2. [단행본] - Braidotti, Rosi / 1994 / Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory / Columbia UP
3. [단행본] - Bronte, Charlotte / 2003 / Jane Eyre. 1847 / Penguin
4. [학술지(정기간행물)] - Carter, Hannah / 1968 / Fated to Be Sad / Interview with Jean Rhys. Guardian 8 : 5 ~
5. [단행본] - Felman, Shoshana / 1997 / Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy, in Feminism: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism / Rutgers UP : 7 ~ 20
2. [단행본] - Braidotti, Rosi / 1994 / Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory / Columbia UP
3. [단행본] - Bronte, Charlotte / 2003 / Jane Eyre. 1847 / Penguin
4. [학술지(정기간행물)] - Carter, Hannah / 1968 / Fated to Be Sad / Interview with Jean Rhys. Guardian 8 : 5 ~
5. [단행본] - Felman, Shoshana / 1997 / Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy, in Feminism: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism / Rutgers UP : 7 ~ 20
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