期刊名称：Language and Literature - European Landmarks of Identity
印刷版ISSN：2344-4894
出版年度：2011
卷号：8
语种：English
出版社：Unversity of Pitesti Press
摘要：This paper attempts to show the exotic island of Jamaica,due to sketches of its environment and thus creating a realistic mental image for its reader. It also tries to show in what way the locations in “Wide Sargasso Sea” expose the main characters and their fate. However,places and landscapes are more than simply the setting for the action. They not only form the structural and thematic patterns of the novel,but they are used to construct the character’s state of mind and/or their sense of personal,racial and cultural identity. For example,Rochester’s sense of Granbois,seen as a place of refuge is related to his fragile English identity in that alien place. The opposition between the two main characters can also be expressed in their different responses to the same landscape,as in the different ways in which Antoinette and Rochester respond to Granbois.
关键词：location metaphors;doubled identity;periphery of consciousness.
