Examples Of Alienation In Wide Sargasso Sea
Alienation and Dis-alienation
Ever wonder what life would be like if there was never discrimination to start with? There is nothing more isolating than living in a society that casts judgment on groups or individuals based on ill-conceived notions and specific criterion. Both Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea and Sophie in Breath, Eyes, Memoryface many circumstances where they are both alienated and each one finds different ways to make themselves heard and resist. Alienation comes in many forms including but not limited to race, gender, and subject versus object.
Probably the most infamous forms of alienation is race.It does not matter if you are in your home country or living in a foreign country, the use of alienating people by forms of racial comments or actions occurred quite a bit in both the Caribbean and in the United States. Sophie discovers this the minute she starts to attend school in Brooklyn, NY after leaving Haiti. “Outside the school, we were ‘the frenchies,’ cringing in our mock-Catholic-school uniforms as the students from the public school across the street called us ‘boat people’ and ‘stinking Haitians’” (Danticat 66). Antoinette also discovers early on as a young girl that she and her family were looked down on from the very beginning as seen here when she …show more content…
It is unfortunate that you can find it all across the globe. However, if we have learned anything from the people in history or even in fiction, people should not let alienation be crippling.“But I saw the wax candles too and I hated them. So I knocked them all down. Most of them went out but one caught the thin curtains that were behind the red ones. I laughed when I saw the lovely colour spreading so fast (Rhys 188). No one is saying that you have to go out and start fires, but everyone has the right to be a person and to do that, one must stand up for
Ever wonder what life would be like if there was never discrimination to start with? There is nothing more isolating than living in a society that casts judgment on groups or individuals based on ill-conceived notions and specific criterion. Both Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea and Sophie in Breath, Eyes, Memoryface many circumstances where they are both alienated and each one finds different ways to make themselves heard and resist. Alienation comes in many forms including but not limited to race, gender, and subject versus object.
Probably the most infamous forms of alienation is race.It does not matter if you are in your home country or living in a foreign country, the use of alienating people by forms of racial comments or actions occurred quite a bit in both the Caribbean and in the United States. Sophie discovers this the minute she starts to attend school in Brooklyn, NY after leaving Haiti. “Outside the school, we were ‘the frenchies,’ cringing in our mock-Catholic-school uniforms as the students from the public school across the street called us ‘boat people’ and ‘stinking Haitians’” (Danticat 66). Antoinette also discovers early on as a young girl that she and her family were looked down on from the very beginning as seen here when she …show more content…
It is unfortunate that you can find it all across the globe. However, if we have learned anything from the people in history or even in fiction, people should not let alienation be crippling.“But I saw the wax candles too and I hated them. So I knocked them all down. Most of them went out but one caught the thin curtains that were behind the red ones. I laughed when I saw the lovely colour spreading so fast (Rhys 188). No one is saying that you have to go out and start fires, but everyone has the right to be a person and to do that, one must stand up for