Revision of Master Narratives within Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea Es

To be able to discuss adequately how the obtain narratives of Bronte and Rhys meter are revised, one must first understand what those tame narratives were and what the societal mood of the time was. From thither one will be able to discuss how they were revised, and if in detail they were revised at all. Bronte is cognize as one of the first revolutionary and challenging authoress with her text Jane Eyre. The lodge of her time was mannish dominated, women were marginally cast aside and treated as trophies for their male counterparts. Their main role in life was to be a mother and a wife, Literature cannot be the business of a cleaning ladys lifethe more she is engaged in her proper duties, the little leisure she will have for it. A quote from a letter Robert Southey wrote to Bronte. A clear sign of the mentality and opposition Bronte was up against. A womans proper duties of course being to tend and depend on her masters every whim and need. Women during Brontes time had no clear voice, none that was of any merit, they were a silent menage of society, silenced by their male oppressors. Brontes book was in fact written before the first womens rights movement had happened, yet it puts previous an image of an independent strong character, of a passionate and almost insubordinate nature. A character refusing subservience, disagreeing with her superiors, standing up for her rights, and venturing creative thoughts. I put forward that Bronte throughout her text not only revises the themes of male power and oppression, but reconstructs them also. The text is a female bildungsroman of its time, sometimes subtly and sometimes overtly tackling the patriarchal view of women.Immediately from the give way Brontes character Jane is different. She is an orphan, mis-treated and despised by her family. She has no clear social position, is described as less than a servant and treated similar one. A protagonist who one would assume had no characteristics worth as piring too. Jane is displayed perfectly in her hiding behind the curtain. She is placed by a window, which beyond is icy and cold, contrasting immensely from the inside of the fire and warmth. A clear statement of the icy coldness of the family she has been put to live with, and her ardent and passionate nature which we discover th... ...ing novels of their time. They both revise aspects of their era, that would rarely, if ever, have been touched(p) on. Wide Sargasso Sea having the double revision of challenging Jane Eyre, as well as social beliefs. The devices that connect the two texts also recess the boundary between them. Although this rupture completes Rhys text, it results in a breakdown of the justice of Brontes. As much as Brontes text was revolutionary of her time, so too was Rhys. Time changed and what was once revolutionary became simplified and unbelievable. The fact remains, that without Jane Eyre, there would be no Wide Sargasso Sea, the two texts are mutually exc lusive, and just as revolutionary now as when they were written.-Gordon, Lyndall, Charlotte Bronte A passionate life. (London Vintage, 1995)-Margaret McFadden Gerber, Ed Frank N Magill, Critical Evaluation, Masterplots, Vol 6, (1996)-Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (LondonPenguin front Published 1847) -Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, (LondonPenguin1966) -Ellen G Friedman, Breaking the Master level Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea, in Breaking the Sequence Womens Experimental Fiction. Princeton University Press, 1989,