隨著後殖民理論的發展與傳播，在帝國主義羽翼下所產出的所謂經典作品必須重新檢視，而隱藏其下的意識型態也必須揭露出來。在《簡愛》中，牙買加來的混種女子被描述為瘋狂及非理性，然而，她卻沒有為自己發言或辯解機會。本論文闡述《寬闊的薩加索海》為了抗議《簡愛》對柏莎的（誤）再現，將她被緘默的歷史重新放置在西印度群島的脈絡中呈現出來。《簡愛》中的緘默用來作為歐洲優越感的襯托背景，而《寬闊的薩加索海》中柏莎/安多烈特的聲音則是成為柏莎在《簡愛》中的前景，干涉以歐洲為中心的思想所建構出的瘋狂意象。此外，藉著描寫在西印度群島上複雜的權力關係，《寬闊的薩加索海》揭露被殖民者當中的異質，而非在東方主義的文本中所顯示出的同質。
本論文共四章，第一章之前的序論借用尼采的洞見提出有關真理的議題，並簡介各章內容。第一章探討《簡愛》中的東方主義。第二章討論《寬闊的薩加索海》運用諧擬範疇內、外的策略所形成對《簡愛》的抵抗。第三章檢視被殖民者中的差異及身分認同之建構。最後，結論重述本論文的要點並強調從《簡愛》過渡到《寬闊的薩加索海》的重要性。

As postcolonial theory is widely spread and developed, the so-called canon produced under the umbrella of imperialism must now be reconsidered and the embedded Eurocentric ideologies should be divulged. In Jane Eyre, the Creole woman from Jamaica is described as mad and irrational while she is denied any sites of enunciation to speak for herself. In this thesis I would like to argue that Wide Sargasso Sea, with its protest against the (mis)representation of Bertha, recontextualizes the silenced history of Bertha in the West Indies. While the silence in Jane Eyre is treated as the background against which European superiority is spotlighted, the voice of Bertha/Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea serves as the foreground intervening the Eurocentrism-based construction of Bertha’s dehumanized image in Jane Eyre. What’s more, by delineating the complex power relationship in the West Indies, Wide Sargasso Sea discloses the heterogeneity of the colonized, not the homogeneity manifested in Orientalist texts.
The thesis consists of three chapters. Before Chapter One, Introduction brings up the issue of “truth” by adopting Nietzsche’s insight and provides an overview of the following chapters. Chapter One investigates the Eurocentrism and the Orientalist representation of Bertha in Jane Eyre. Chapter Two explores the resistance Wide Sargasso Sea manages through strategies both of mimicry and beyond mimicry. Chapter Three examines the differences of the colonized and the identity construction. Finally, Conclusion recapitulates the major arguments of the thesis and strengthens the significance of the passage from Jane Eyre to Wide Sargasso Sea.

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