![]() ![]() ![]() It focuses on the issue of the absent mother and Julia Kristeva´s psychoanalytic theory on abjection. Repression, then, appears as the sole possibility of existence.Ībstract: This essay concerns two novels, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. It is suggested that Jane’s happy ending and Antoinette’s tragic ending are both determined by the impossibility of the Victorian ethos, personified in Rochester, to accept chaos: the disorder represented by Antoinette -disorder of alterity- must be tamed. These parallel stories of abandonment and failed searches converge in one point: Edward Rochester. This essay traces the stories of Jane Eyre, the heroine of the homonymous novel (Charlotte Brontë, 1847), and Antoinette Cosway, the heroine of Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys, 1966). La represión, entonces, aparece como única posibilidad de existencia. Se sugiere que el final feliz de Jane y el final trágico de Antoinette están determinados por la imposibilidad del etos victoriano, encarnado en Rochester, de aceptar el caos: el desorden que representa Antoinette -desorden de la alteridad- debe ser sometido. ![]() Son historias paralelas de abandono y búsquedas fallidas que convergen en un punto: Edward Rochester. Este ensayo traza las historias de Jane Eyre, protagonista de la novela homónima (Charlotte Brontë 1847), y Antoinette Cosway, protagonista de El vasto mar de los Sargazos (Jean Rhys 1966). ![]()
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