Defined by the Webster’s Dictionary intertextuality means the complex interrelationship between a text and other texts taken as basic of the creation or interpretation of the text. Every author uses intertextuality in their works. This generalization can lead us to the conclusion that no work is original for, in one way or another, it is the product of influences received from the exterior, in some cases the exterior being a previous text. Such is the case of Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea, which is based on Charlotte Brontė’s Jane Eyre. In Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys refunctions Bertha Mason’s story from the....

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