LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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The relative location of the room in which the “troubled” women are kept
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The state of disrepair when the houses are first encountered by the protagonists
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The relative location of the houses within the larger communities
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The relative age of the houses
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Detailed explanation-1: -There are notable similarities between Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. These similarities include the treatment of space, the use of a gothic tone with elements of realism, a sense of male superiority, and the mental instability of women.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a whole, the setting of Jane Eyre, the unsettling events of her past, and the cast of characters, all contribute to classifying the novel as a gothic one.
Detailed explanation-3: -Charlotte Brontë invests gothic elements in Jane Eyre with a symbolic meaning to create a new, ‘female’ language. It is through this female Gothic language that Brontë creates a heroine whose autobiographical mode of writing is used to trace a story of female rebellion and search for identity.
Detailed explanation-4: -12 Gilman’s story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” has been called gothic because of its focus on madness and its horrifying conclusion. Some critics even chose to compare Gilman’s story to the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, because of its remarkable depiction of the deterioration of the human mind.