INTERPRETATION OF LONELINESS IN “WIDE SARGASSO SEA” BY JEAN RHYS

Abstract

English literature makes use of the concept of solitude to develop the main characters and offer a unique perspective on certain important facets of their personalities. “Wide Sargasso Sea” presents notions of isolation as a direct outcome of characters' long-standing loneliness; as a result, the author applies both social and interior isolation. These people live in such a horrible reality that they cut themselves off from the outside world. Such estrangement is a sophisticated psychological condition that affects how characters develop their identities. The author is of the opinion that a woman's madness is not something that comes naturally to her; rather, it is the result of an injured self that is formed in a person as a result of isolation and oppression. In this way, characters see isolation as a kind of rescue that seems to save them for a while, but in reality, it slowly destroys these protagonists. The truth of the matter is that the character of an individual is made through specific social and social connections with individuals, however confinement denies him/her of getting the fulfillment of personality.