"Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys : Antoinette Cosway's stay at the convent

Antoinette first enters Mount Calvary Convent in tears, after being taunted on the way to this new home. She is recieved by the nuns there, whom she percieves as her dubitable guardians during her eighteen month lenify. These include Mother Justine and Sister Marie Augustine, whose reassurance, peculiarly evident after they console her following two dreadfull nightmares; collaborator with the Convents large pitfall walls make the convent her plaace of refuge. Antoinette remarks that the nuns are very lax, according to the Bishop, because of the climate. She is enrolled in lessons at the Convent, where she learns to cross-stitch, and is overly taught virtue, chastity, manners, and to be modest in discourse and attire. She is given religious education and taught to pray. Antoinette enjoys her stay in a dormitory with eight other young women. Her daily mathematical function begins by rising at dawn to transport to the stone bath with her eight companions, where they spl ash about merrily. She enjoys her breakfasts of buttered rolls. Antoinette is also captivated by the evasive charm of the convent. She refers to it as a sit of sunshine and a place of death. She is secure and somewhat happy at the convent, specially because she is defend from the antagonistic colonial society, where she is faced with discrimination from twain the clean and black ex-slave communities.

Because she is of French blood, in a British society, and also because of her mothers widely-known insanity, and rumours that she may not be entirely Caucasian, she is follow by a cloak of adversities outside of the Conven t, which has become her fortress. However, ! Antoinettes stay at the convent has also brought an end to her adventurous lifestyle in which she enjoyed stray through the beautiful wilderness of Coulibri Estate, and the scenic dishful of... If you exigency to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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