Three Women Imperialism

The True Face of Imperialism
According to Fidel Castro, “If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely imperialism.” From the Neolithic to the Modern Era, Imperialism marks a fundamental human desire that has ravaged civilizations, crumbled empires, and demolished nations. With the dawning of the imperialistic era, fundamental English axiomatic imposition ran rampant and unbridled. Gayatri Spivaks essay “Three Women’s texts and a Critique of Imperialism” and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea analyze the aftermath of unchecked imperialism through the review and perspective narration of Charlotte Bronte’s classic, Jane Eyre. Spivak
In 1624 Britain established its first permanent Caribbean colony on the island of St. Kitts. Soon their shadow claimed Barbados in 1625, several Leeward Islands during the following years, and Jamaica in 1655 with the iron fist leadership of King Charles. Unfortunately, despite his exploits, King Charles was not so well loved on his home front and eventually parliamentary leader Oliver Cromwell usurped the crown with a bitter civil war that greatly affected Barbados residents. Charles was swiftly defeated and Cromwell ordered his execution and exile to his son. However, British imperialism temporarily won over the blissfully ignorant Barbados population and they proclaimed their allegiance to the exiled prince in the 1650’s.The next 160 years permanently scarred the Caribbean people and resources as Britain violently quelled any insurgence and engaged in numerous battles with France, Spain and the Netherlands in efforts to further expand its Caribbean