20th Century

Throughout the book, The Wide Sargasso Sea, we follow the story of Antoinette, a young girl born into an unlucky situation and turned mad. This story of Antoinette from normal girl to insane women that ended up suicide is what the main focus of this book is about. A reason given again and again in the book by the doctors in the story say that Antoinette simply has bad blood. Her mother went insane and because Antoinette was the daughter, Antoinette theoretically  inherited her insanity. At least according to the doctors. Yet, should this be taken for granted? Or did Antoinette and her mother get placed in a situation where insanity seems a possible cause? Her mother, Annette most definitely did not have an easy life. She starts off marring Alexander Cosway, someone not renown for being with one woman. Over the course of his life, he established himself as someone who sleeps everywhere, creating many illegitimate children in the process. After dying, Annette is l...

From the entire book, I was very ingredient by the plot and the sudden murder in middle of the book. Yet, out of every wack events that occurs in the book, such as the reason behind his murders and the reason behind the lack of emotion, the events that happened near the end of the book. In small 20 pages of the end, crazy events happened that decided if the character that we have been following would die or live a long jail sentence. In these two chapters, a question that pops out often is why does Mersault not lie about the events that happened? As we discussed in class, all of the events and evidence the court uses against Mersault were all said by him as he was the only living witness. In my opinion, Mersault appears to not be capable of looking at the future. Just as he cannot understand what good being married would be or the effects of getting a promotion, he cannot see the effects of manipulating the situation. It is seen time and time again that the court system is not that gre...