however it was written after Bronte’s classic novel. The Creole ‘Mad-woman in the attic’- Antoinette- the enigmatic, repressed, voiceless secret of ‘Jane Eyre’, is given a voice by Rhys who (reveals) charts her journey into madness. In Jane Eyre, the character is presented in a one dimensional light and Rhys herself stated “I thought I’d try to write her a life” (reference). Rhys was born in Dominica so is herself Creole, and a woman, which perhaps acted as inspiration for presenting Antoinette as…
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