I made some poems based on Wide Sargasso Sea because poems are my default when shit seems too overwhelming. Turns out, at least one was about rape, but that doesn’t mean that my trauma needs to be front-and-center here, so let’s just set into it and then grant y’all with my reflection so we can… Read more Never be afraid. Or if you are tell no one.
Category: Third Project Spring 2021
Eleven Cats (Origami Edition)
“Old Ella Mason keeps cats, eleven at last count / In her ramshackle house off Somerset Terrace…” Like the children from the poem, let’s take a peek into the house filled with Ella Mason’s eleven cats! I wonder what they’re doing today. Except, what’s that? They’re made out of… paper? These two origami cats look… Read more Eleven Cats (Origami Edition)
Horror and Tragedy: The Domino Effect
Wide Sargasso Sea is a story of hardship and tragedy. Some aspects of the text, important to cover, include mental disabilities among family members and the impact that they had in the Victorian era. It wasn’t a matter of getting help, but rather a matter of avoiding the problems, where the real problem comes into… Read more Horror and Tragedy: The Domino Effect
Frankenstein, Alternative Ending
My whole life has been filled with loneliness. It has been a dreaded life at that. Loneliness is such an abstract idea. My own creator, the closest thing to family I will ever have, wants nothing to do with me. How could I blame him? I am a monster after all. Oh, how I long… Read more Frankenstein, Alternative Ending
Death of the Moth vs. Our Global Pandemic
The story Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf represents the life of a moth which began with mini bursts of energy and enthusiasm. The moth’s life was short-lived and he found himself growing weaker and weaker while feeling helpless. The author, Virginia Woolf creates many comparisons of the life that was lived from outside… Read more Death of the Moth vs. Our Global Pandemic
Ecofeminism as the Roots of Patriarchal Insecurity in Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea is a post-colonial story taking place in Jamaica after the emancipation of slaves. This text centers around Antionette, a white woman, who is the kin of former slave owners. She has a deep history to the island and, despite her abuse from angry former slaves, she feels a connection with… Read more Ecofeminism as the Roots of Patriarchal Insecurity in Wide Sargasso Sea
Birds of a Feather
One of the biggest things from Wide Sargasso Sea that stuck out for me was the image of a bird trying desperately to escape a fire and the image of a woman gleefully embracing the fire like an old lover. The cycle of a phoenix is a common trope in some fantasy novels. It lives… Read more Birds of a Feather
The Mystery of Life and Death
“Thou know’st ’tis common; all that lives must die,Passing through nature to eternity.” Hamlet “So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.” Frankenstein… Read more The Mystery of Life and Death