1. Compare and contrast Antoinette and Rochester's religious and spiritual beliefs. How do their ideas regarding fate, death, and salvation shape their actions and behaviors? Do they feel empowered by or at the mercy of a divine order?

2. Does Rhys's ending serve as a subversive rewriting of Brontë's fiction? Does Wide Sargasso Sea pay homage to Jane Eyre or does it aggressively critique the literary classic? Can Rhys's novel truly be appreciated as a work on its own?

3. Compare Antoinette and Rochester's attitudes towards servants. How do questions of social class shape the power dynamics operating between characters?

4. Compare and contrast the characters of Rochester and Antoinette. How are they different, and in what ways are they similar? How do their different cultural and social backgrounds account for the failure of their relationship?

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