Abstract
The images of color and fragrance appear very intensely throughout Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. Color and fragrance remind Antoinette of the specific visual and olfactory stimuli she experienced in her homeland in the past and play a role in reviving the memory rooted deep in the homeland, which have close relations with her identity. In this context, this study would focus on color and fragrance, which are the basis on which Antoinette understands the world. Color and fragrance appear through natural objects in Antoinette’ homeland throughout the novel, and especially, the colorful red dress is an important mechanism that constructs her identity. Jean Rhys expresses Antoinette’s identity, especially, through the subject matters of color and fragrance to emphasize that her identity has a character that cannot easily be scooped up with a net of reason and rationality and criticize a man of empire, who would define that as uniform and compulsory or deprive her of that. To analysis this, this study would investigate the inter-textuality between Wide Sargasso Sea and Jean Rhys’s previous works.
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