'There is always the other side, always.' Antoinette speaks to the very cause of Rhys' feminist and postcolonial rewriting. As a book that adopts the perspective of a marginalised and exoticised literary figure, "Wide Sargasso Sea" promotes an awareness of multiple & simultaneous viewpoints as it struggles against dominant traditions and espouses the cause of the under-represented through its exploration of racial, colonial and sexual oppression. Rhys redresses Antoinette's silencing (in the canonical …
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…of heroism. (In forestalling Antoinette's fatal jump, Rhys grants her protagonist a final moment of triumph: Antoinette appears active and defiant, about to enact her dream.) Rhys aims to restore the silenced voiced with her text, to uncover an alternate truth, exposing the limits of Canon that assumes a shared white heritage in its audience. It challenges the authority of the Canon by asserting the possibility of multiple truths through its rewriting of Bronte's classic.