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<p> This paper attempts to show in what way the exotic island of Jamaica expose the main characters and their fate. This part of the Atlantic Ocean seems to be torn between two different cultures, and also covers the notorious and mysterious Bermuda Triangle. The title is also foreboding for the protagonist’s fate: she will get just as lost into madness as ships in the Sargasso Sea.</p>
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This paper attempts to show in what way the exotic island of Jamaica expose the main characters and their fate. This part of the Atlantic Ocean seems to be torn between two different cultures, and also covers the notorious and mysterious Bermuda Triangle. The title is also foreboding for the protagonist’s fate: she will get just as lost into madness as ships in the Sargasso Sea.

Lost in the Bermuda Triangle: The Significance of Locations in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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This paper attempts to show in what way the exotic island of Jamaica expose the main characters and their fate. This part of the Atlantic Ocean seems to be...

Lost in the Bermuda Triangle: The Significance of Locations in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

Published Online: Feb 21, 2013

Page range: 147 - 153

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0016-9

Keywords
Caribbean islandscape, cultural identity, location metaphors, periphery of consciousness

© 2012 by Versita

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Lost in the Bermuda Triangle: The Significance of Locations in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

Published Online: Feb 21, 2013

Page range: 147 - 153

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0016-9

KeywordsCaribbean islandscape, cultural identity, location metaphors, periphery of consciousness

© 2012 by Versita

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Caribbean islandscape, cultural identity, location metaphors, periphery of consciousness