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In  Wide Sargasso Sea , Antoinette marries Rochester. Rochester doesn’t love her and only married her for money. Rochester takes everything away from Antoinette, driving her mad. Her madness isn’t inherited from her mother, she’s “mad” because of her situation in this terrible marriage. Rochester, even though he doesn’t love Antoinette, needs to be in control of everything. He “owns” her, and unfortunately, at the time, the law agrees. Rochester “breaks” Antoinette. In the beginning of their marriage, he shows her some “love” and because of her past, Antoinette really wants to hold onto this feeling. But Rochester takes that away from her, he won’t give her “love”. This starts to break her because she wants this feeling so much that she would do anything. She goes to Christophine to ask for help and puts the white powder in Rochester’s drink. She basically drugs him, and you have to feel sorry for Rochester in this case. But the point is that Antoinette starts breaking when Ro...

In the first part of  The Stranger , I think that you can see many parallels to France during World War II. Specifically, I think Meursault represents The Collaboration in France, and Raymond would be like the Nazi Germans. The Collaboration in France was the group that decided to help the Germans in efforts to help themselves. They were officially neutral, but they did a lot to help the Germans. Meursault seemed like he always tried to act neutral, but he ended up helping Raymond. As time went on, the collaboration became more involved like Meursault who went from writing a letter for Raymond, to testifying as a witness for Raymond, to agreeing to help Raymond in fights, and he ends will killing the Arab. The Collaboration, similarly, wanted at first to be neutral, then they started helping the Germans round up Jews and put them in camps. They, at first, tried to only put foreign Jews into camps (because they wanted to protect French Jews), but that changed over time.  ...