Tracing Colonialism in 19th Century British Novels

Farhana Haque

doi:10.31031/rmes.2017.02.000531

Abstract

Research in Medical & Engineering Sciences Tracing Colonialism in 19th Century British Novels Farhana Haque* Department of Arts and Humanities, Brac University, Bangladesh *Corresponding author: Farhana Haque, Department of Arts and Humanities, Brac University, Bangladesh Submission: September 09, 2017; Published: November 08, 2017 DOI: 10.31031/RMES.2017.02.000531 ISSN : 2576-8816Volume2 Issue2

Highlights

This paper will explore the concept of british’s colonial enterprise throughout the three credible english novels from three different and significant eras of colonial issue
Just as jane eyre sets up a narrative of special inclusion where jane and rochester were allowed to exist within the scope of englishness, jean rhy’s wide sargasso sea sets up a narrative of exclusion where characters were attempted to achieve english attributes but continuously fall sort
Just as jane eyre did set up a narrative of special inclusion where jane and rochester were allowed to exist within the scope of englishness

Summary

Introduction

This paper will explore the concept of british’s colonial enterprise throughout the three credible english novels from three different and significant eras of colonial issue. Blackness was associated with the colonial slaves and their violent uprising in the west indies against the white english imperial power This connection was only strengthened at the end of wide sargasso sea, when rhys foretold what i have previously described as bertha/ antoinette’s slave revolt when she did set out thorn field on fire. In the scene in wide sargasso sea where the black as slave did set fire to calibri, rhys re-enacted the famous scene of bertha who was setting fire to thorn field in jane eyre By mimicking this scene of colonial violence, rhys made antoinette a victim of the colonial other associating her with the english rochester and jane who were the victims of the colonial other in jane eyre. Rhy’s haunting image of antoinette’s face being reflected on bronte’s mad creole woman in the gilt frame foreshadows antoinette’s life as voiceless berth in bronte’s text trapped by rochester in her gilt cage on the third of thorn field

Desegregated identity of english in jane eyre and wide sargasso sea

Mansfield park and the nexus of imperialism

Conclusion