ACCT 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jean Rhys, Pseudoscience, Castaway

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Accounting (ACCT)
• Course: ACCT 002
• Professor: Chaojibai

Document Summary

Critical of victorian social classes: being governess/ being prostitute were the only jobs for women at that time. Jane is a servant to mr rochester, but after inheriting the money she"s equal to him. Colonial element: mr rochester marries a woman from jamaica. Jean rhys background: she became preoccupied with bertha mason from jane eyre because they both were creole and left the caribbean to come to england. Acts as a prequel to bronte"s famous jane eyre , thought of as a postcolonial response to jane eyre (anoinette cosway is in jane eyre known as bertha mason, the unnamed englishname is implied as. Themes: racism, personal struggle and finding her own identity, revising the canon, clash of values (european vs. caribbean), colonialism. Antoinette cosway = a white creole heiress, daughter of an ex - slave owner. Her father is ruined after the abolishment of slavery.