Madness and/or Language — Or Why Does ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ Haunt Us?
Madness and/or Language — Or Why Does ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ Haunt Us?
Author(s): Nóra Séllei Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Summary/Abstract: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is a haunted and haunting text. It is haunted not only because of the narrator’s creepy feeling that she is in a haunted house; not only because of the ending, i.e. the ghostly and ghastly madwoman tearing off the yellow wallpaper, shaking the bars of the attic room, and climbing over her fainted husband; or not only because of the other women creeping all around the house; and not only because of the mechanism of how the plot and the symbolism of the text can be described in the Freudian term of “the uncanny effect”.
Journal: Gender Studies
- Issue Year: 2003
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 10-21
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
