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This is a 5 page paper discussing elements of imagery and figurative language used throughout a passage in “Wide Sargasso Sea”. Jean Rhys uses vivid elements of imagery and figurative language to set the themes and tone throughout the novel “Wide Sargasso Sea”. In doing this, Rhys often shows oppositions within the environment in which certain characters must remain for the structure to remain consistent. A passage found on pages 65 and 66 (Penguin edition) relates Rochester leaving his structured world and getting lost in the forest to be later rescued by Baptiste. Within the forest, Rochester finds the forest to be dark and hostile as the bushes and branches grab at his legs. The only elements of civilization he finds are a road and a stone house which are overgrown and deserted. His relationship with Baptiste within the forest also differs with that outside of the forest. The passage overall contains many useful elements used throughout the novel which express the foreign aspects of the islands which are seen as dark, hostile and decayed from the colonial point of view.
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oppositions within the environment in which certain characters must remain for the structure to remain consistent. A passage found on pages 65 and 66 (Penguin edition) relates Rochester leaving his
structured world and getting lost in the forest to be later rescued by Baptiste. Within the forest, Rochester finds the forest to be dark and hostile as the bushes and
branches grab at his legs. The only elements of civilization he finds are a road and a stone house which are overgrown and deserted. His relationship with Baptiste within the
forest also differs with that outside of the forest. The passage overall contains many useful elements used throughout the novel which express the foreign aspects of the islands which are
seen as dark, hostile and decayed from the colonial point of view. Throughout Jean Rhys "Wide Sargasso Sea" there are references not only
to the colonial oppression from the past but also that fact that the existence of whatever happened before is continuously suppressed. Throughout the texts there also exist several "unrevealed" secrets
which are obviously related to the past but are not meant to be recovered. For Rochester, it seems these secrets "are rooted in West Indian history; the islands inhabitants seem
to Rochester to collude in the concealing their past" and overall many of the episodes from the past are forgotten by "the willed amnesia of the descendents both of plantation
owners, like Antoinette, and of slaves" (Rhys xiv). In part two of the novel, Rochester walks out "following the path I could see from my window" and while he is
"preoccupied by his recognition that his father and brother have exploited him for the sake of keeping the English estate intact, he loses his way, trips, and nearly falls" over
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