The Vast Sargasso SeaThe Creoles of the vast Sargasso Sea are outcasts. They live with a divided identity and alienated from the world. After Antoinette's father died, their behavior nearly caused their entire world to collapse. The family suffers enormously from their distance from the rest of the world. The purpose of this article is to show you the divided identities of the family and how it affects their daily lives, as well as the consequences that arise from it. Antoinette, the main character and the daughter of former slave owners, is far from rational and autonomous. -restricted. Antoinette is a sensitive and lonely young Creole girl who grows up without the love of her mother and the friendship of her peers. Left mostly to her own devices as a child, Antoinette turns inward and discovers that the world can be both peaceful and frightening. At school, as a young girl, Antoinette becomes increasingly isolated, showing the first signs of her hereditary emotional instability. Her arranged marriage makes her suffer and she tries to give it up, intuitively feeling that she will be hurt. Undeniably, marriage is an incompatibility of culture and custom. She and her English husband, Mr. Rochester, cannot get along; and her past actions, particularly her childhood relationship with a mixed-race brother, taint her husband's opinion of her. Eventually, her husband takes her to England and locks her in the attic, assigning a servant to watch over her. In Antoinette, we see the potential dangers of an overactive imagination and acute sensitivity. His restlessness and instability seem to stem from his inability to belong to an individual community. An outcast within her own family, a "white cockroach" towards her disrespectful servants, and a quirk in the eyes of...... middle of paper ...... Antoinette has various split identities and examining the characters As I have above, you can see where these identities come from. Each character affects Antoinette individually in the way they treat, care for, and behave towards her. By learning from each of these characters, they help shape Antoinette's divided identities with their own equally divided identities. Works Cited Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. New York: Walace Literary Agency, Inc., 1999. Staff, Shmoop Editorial. Character analysis. November 11, 2008. Retrieved April 30, 2014. .Wide Sargasso Sea. 2014. .Wide Sargasso Sea: global analysis. May 15, 2008. April 29 2014. .