[Misfire]

Wide Sargasso Sea and With Silent Tread are both novels featuring female protagonists who find themselves in the midst of a miscegenational society. Despite the ethnic and cultural diversity of the West Indies, these white, Creole women were compelled by their own culture's influence to marry European whites. Any type of interracial mixing, it was thought, would endanger the preservation of white purity. Interestingly, British society considered white Creoles already tainted. The racially "pure" marriages of Antoinette from Wide Sargasso Sea and Morea from With Silent Tread, therefore, were predestined to fail.