The Tragedy of Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea Essay -- Wide Sargasso Sea

The Tragedy of Wide sargasso Sea In Jean Rhys novel Wide Sargasso Sea, whether Antoinette Cosway rattling goes mad in the bar is debatable. Nevertheless, it is clear that her life is tragic. The tragedy comes from her numerous pursuits for love and a sense of belonging, and her failure at each and every one of these attempts. As a child Antoinette, is deprived of parental love. Her father is a drunkard and has many mistresses and illegitimate children. According to Daniel Cosways account, old Cosway is cruel to his own son. Yet even if Daniel was not really a Cosway, and his descriptions were made out of spite, or if old Cosway had cared any more for his legitimate children than his bastard ones, his alcoholism is real, and thus he could not have been a loving father to Antoinette. Her mother, Annette, does not show much motherly affection to her either. Antoinette needs and wants her mothers love, but Annette is indifferent to her. Once, Antoinette sees her mother frown, and tri es to smooth the frown out with her hand, exactly she pushed me away, not roughly but calmly, coldly, without a word, as if she had decided once and for all that I was useless to her. She wanted to sit with Pierre or laissez passer where she pleased without being pestered, she wanted peace and quiet.. Oh, let me alone, she would say, let me alone (13 part 1). One night, when Antoinette has had a nightmare, she awakens to see her mother at her bed. This makes her feel safe, but even therefore her mother has not come to show concern for her, but to look after Pierre, whom is frightened by her noise. When her needs for love and belonging are ignored by her parents, Antoinette seeks to fulfill them elsewhere. She seeks love from a newly foun... ...r her, if there has ever been any, is completely gone, andall that is left is destructive hatred If I was bound for hell let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned music. You hate me and I hate you. Well see who hates best. But first, first I testament destroy your hatred. Now my hate is colder, stronger, and youll have no hate to warm yourself. You will have nothing (110 part 2). He thus murders her last expect for love and safety, and brings her to England to be locked away in his attic. This is her second dislocation, this time not only removed from her own familiar world, but completely isolated from the broad(a) world. Here her tragedy is complete, for her heart and soul are killed, and she is but a ghost, with nothing left but hopelessness (110 part 2). Work Cited Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. Ed. Angela Smith. London Penguin, 1997.