Of Holy crap, I have an essay tomorrow!

Okay, so I need to do a comparison between Jane Eyre and the Wide Sea Sargasso. Problem is, I don't know what to compare.
For the past week, we've been talking about parallel's between the main characters, Jane Eyre and Antoinette Rochester.

Jane Eyre, orphaned at a young age, lived unloved in her aunt's cold house. Hated by her and her child, Jane found solace in her books. Seclusion meant safety and peace for Jane, who was used to her aunt's cold gaze and her cousins' torment.
In Antoinette case, she loved her mother and believed that it was returned, but in the end, her mother drew away from Antoinette's touch after her son, Antoinette's idiot brother, died in the burning carnage of their house.

Detached and unloved at an early age, Jane was perhaps more stable, knowing that only in that house she would have to feel that way.
Antoinette, however, was trapped. Hated in her land, where her family was known to be ex-slave owner, hated by her mother, the one woman whom she truly loved. Perhaps, because of that instance, she came to depend, thrive on another's love, desperate to recreate what she never had.
What she never realized was that she had love. Her childhood caretaker, and surrogate mother, Christophine, loved and cherish Antoinette. Her half-brother and lover, Sandi, loved and cherished her too, but what of it? She did not put any value on them. But why?

Come to think of it, Jane, too, had a caretaker in Bessie. The only woman there to dote on her as a child should be doted upon. In Jane's case, Bessie was a passing character. She had little influence other than to sooth a passionate Jane. Jane forgot her soon, but always loved her.

Antoinette constantly leaned on Christophine. Maybe part of the reason that Antoinette was so messed up was because Christophine never really tried to make Antoinette grow up. She did everything she asked, without laying down any punishment or consquence, so Antoinette didn't really see her a relevant person. In short, Christophine babied Antoinette, perhaps in fear that Antoinette would soon develop into another crazy character.

But anyways, Antoinette, so consumed with this desire to find love, found no outlet. She was so dependent on this need, she never learned to stand on her own two feet. While Jane found comfort in seclusion, Antoinette couldn't be satisfied until she felt constantly loved.
When that didn't happen, and Rochester, though he had admitted he never loved her, would not give her up, she had no escape, by then too emersed in Rochester to leave on her own. She stayed and found comfort outside her mind. She may have been saved had she had the strength to leave him.

It isn't surprising that Antoinette was pushed to madness. In a place like Croele where women must depend on men to rule over them and provide protection, she, like her mother Anette, fell into the hands of greedy infatuated men, who in the end, betrayed and left them.

Another similarity, shared between the two women, are the hot and passionate personalities they had. In a time where female docility and childlike servitude were prized in women, there hot and fiery tempers were kept in suppression. It is ironic that Antoinette, forced unwilling into such a quiet temperment was hated when she tried to freely expressive herself to Rochester, while Jane, who willingly calmed herself, was constantly pulled out of her calm demeanor by Rochester, who favored her passionate mind.

Perhaps Rochester meant to repent for his past crime? Or maybe, her calm demeanor attracted him at first, and her intellectual mind drew him in further until he wasn't afraid or repelled by her passionate outbursts, especially since they usually followed a coherent train of thought. Maybe Jane was able to have controlled bouts of madness, whereas Antoinette had no way to express herself logically without sounding mad.

Christophine, Antoinette's prime care taker, was the opposite of Annette, Antoinette's mother. She was a strong independent woman, stable and sound, but Antoinetter never took example of her, instead choosing to depend on her mother, perhaps striving to win back her favor.