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| EXCERPT 1 - Coulibri Estate is going wild |
| This is the first passage of the novel Wide Sargasso Sea written by Jean Rhys. It starts with the Emancipation Act and all the consequences which happen. Coulibri Estate is now decaying. Troubles and loneliness are the keywords of this part. |
| EXCERPT 2 - The end of a world |
| Emancipation Act (1833) in the West Indies. End of slavery: impoverishment of the Cosway family. Annette and her daughter Antoinette are now poor and isolated. Until beautiful Mrs. Cosway marries a wealthy Englishman. They now live in comfort in spite of Annette’s misgivings. But that was just the calm before the storm. The former slaves attach Coulibri Estate. |
| EXCERPT 3 - On the way to Granbois |
| While at the convent Antoinette was told, an English gentleman was coming to spend the winter in Jamaica. Actually, Mr. Mason planned to marry her into a wealthy family. As her mother was dead she had no other solution but to agree about it. Now, they’re going to Granbois for their honeymoon. |
| EXCERPT 4 - A music of love and death |
In the first weeks of their honeymoon at Granbois, the two characters now seem to get on well with each other. Rochester never seems to have come to terms with his environment. Love now seems to be prevalent, though happiness dissolves into sorrow, love merges into death. |
| EXCERPT 5 - Trying to restore love |
Rochester receives a letter from Daniel Cosway, Antoinette’s half-caste half brother. |
| EXCERPT 6 - Antoinette is getting mad |
| After her visit to the servant Christophine, Antoinette tells her husband the sad story of her family, as Christophine advised her. Though Rochester relents a little, she gives him Christophine’s love potion, which makes him sick. Thinking he has been poisoned he sleeps with the servant Amélie for a revenge. Antoinette, who has heard it all, runs away and when she comes back she gets drink. |
| EXCERPT 7 - Conflicting emotions |
| Antoinette and Rochester were married by their families and went to Dominica for their honeymoon. After some ups and downs in their relationship they finally quarrel with no possible return (they can’t make it up). They’re now ready to go back Jamaica. Rochester, the narrator, goes through conflicting emotions: he is so confused that he swings from hate to love and back to hate within seconds. Eventually, his hatred dissolves into indifference. |
| EXCERPT 8 - Dark passage to freedom |
| Antoinette and Rochester were married by their families and went to Dominica for their honeymoon. After some ups and downs in their relationship they finally quarrel with no possible return (they can’t make it up). They’re now ready to go back Jamaica. Rochester, the narrator, goes through conflicting emotions: he is so confused that he swings from hate to love and back to hate within seconds. Eventually, his hatred dissolves into indifference. |
| METHOD - The unknown document |
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