Option 1: Adapt your presentation into an essay that discusses the role of your selected character or symbol in the story Jean Rhys tells in Wide Sargasso Sea. Please make sure you contextualize any quotations you select by describing the relevant plot points and characters. Your essay should contain at least 6 quotations and make a clear point about how the character or symbol is significant.
Option 2: In preparation for this final essay, please read the introduction of Anne McClintock’s Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest, available through the library in ebook form. If you have any trouble locating the book, try asking the librarian through chat. You will need to log in. This reading is preparation for thinking about imperialism and the place of women in empire-building.
The selection of novels we’ve read for this class all portray women in competition with one another in one form or another. What exactly are these women fighting over? If a man, what else does he represent? And further, what is the position of white women compared to that of other races of the colonial world? Is there a place for female friendship in the imperial worlds these writers portray? Why or why not? Be sure to use the texts to support your claims. You need not use all three novels, but you must use Wide Sargasso Sea. Again, there should be at least 6 quotations from the texts.
At the bottom of your essay, in one paragraph, please describe how your paper addresses the comments on your first submission.
2-3 pages
I will leave the presentation below incase you choose option 1
