Nasty Women: Wide Sargasso Sea and Unburnable offer some unconventional views from many contemporary Western perspectives of sex and marriage Consider Victorian attitudes to sex and marriage embedded in Wide Sargasso Sea, then common contemporary Western views embedded in Unburnable, and finally the alternate views expressed by or about Christophine, Matilda and Iris. In what ways do these alternative views challenge our notions about sex and marriage (we as contemporary Western readers, that is). You need a thesis that makes a claim about these alternative views about sex and marriage, and, at some point (often in the conclusion), you need a statement of theme – not just identifying a subject, but what the novels suggest about the subject of sex and marriage.