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Double Complexity in Wide Sargasso Sea 
Double Complexity
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The book focuses on the difference between emotion and reason with various dichotomies throughout representing one or the other
The problems which Antoinette deals with in her mind are manifested as external issues in the story such as the fires
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The Sargasso Sea between Europe and the Caribbean represent this problem and portrays how Antoinette is stuck out at sea
Fighting with Spectres
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He is frightened by irrationality and feels a type of anxiety the colonisers felt during colonisation
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However he is threatened by her sexuality and he believes that she has "black blood" since it was thought that black women had high libido
These ghosts embody what Western men feared - blackness, a race uprising, womanhood and raw human emotion
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The Self in the Middle Sea
In part 3 when Antoinette discovers that her personality is torn in two, she is able to solve her inner conflict
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Antoinette begins the process of "othering the self" when she looks in the mirror and sees herself from the outside
She is able to reestablish her identity and separate her self from the "other" - this is done by burning down Thornfield
Within the novel, dreams are just as important as reality
Therefore, even if Antoinette only set fire to Thornfield in a dream, the transformation has still taken place in her mind
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Standing on the roof of Thornfield represents England and Tia represents the Caribbean, however between the two is the Sargasso Sea, where she jumps
She does not belong in either place for she is unique and belongs in the sea where she can be her authentic self