Shillong, August 17: The English department of St.Edmund’s College staged a play entitled “The Mad Woman in the Attic” as part of their curriculum in their subject the play was witness from others colleges too.
The play shoe how women in olden days are subjected to male domination bu the drama that revolt aroung the “Wide Sargasso Sea” show even from thus days women are fighting for their right of equality which Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys are expressing their filling in their argument for women’s rights.
Written within the context of a colonial era, Jane Eyre treats the predicament of the of the nineteenth – Century woman, bound by law, conventions, and social status to lives not of their own choosing. Wide Sargasso Sea treats many of the same feminist themes as Jane Eyre, albeit from a post-colonial stance.
Antoinette one that comes across in Jane Eyre is a silent character in that she is delineated not through her own voice and thoughts, but through those of the Patriarch, Edward Rochester.
In the Drama Rhys, in lending a voice to this otherwise silent character, makes Wide Sargasso Sea the voice of many an unvoiced woman throughout history the message that they want to convey from play.(SP News)
