NOTE: Just read Part One for next week, which is fairly short. Part Two is much longer and the narration changes from Antoinette to Rochester (so don't be confused). I'll post a video next week to help you navigate some of the changes and connections between this book and Jane Eyre, especially if you haven't read that novel).
Answer two of the following…
Q1: How does Rhys depict Jamaican society in the 1840’s
(which is less than a decade after the Emancipation Act of 1833, which
abolished slavery in Britain
Q2: Is Antoinette
English? Jamaican? White? Mulatto? Non-Western? Why
is her identity an issue in this novel, and how does she understand who she is
in relation to other white people and the islanders?
Q3: What is “obeah” and how does it function in Caribbean society? How
does Antoinette understand it as a child? Is it similar to
superstition or karma? If so, in what ways?
Q4: Why do the natives burn Coulbiri Esate? What
might this represent about the relationship between Europeans and non-Europeans
in the Caribbean ? Also, why is the image of
the parrot so haunting and possibly, symbolic?
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