LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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It reflects a woman’s everyday life.
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An everyday object causes her terror.
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An apparently normal person is revealed as a man.
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It features a body transformation.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The narrator has found freedom in her uncanny role as a creeping woman. She has secured her freedom by pulling off the wallpaper. Not only does she have freedom, but she also has strength and power. She has become so frightening that even the domineering John faints at the sight of her.
Detailed explanation-2: -The elements of fiction used in “The Yellow Wallpaper” are plot, setting, character, conflict, point of view, and theme. Plot and conflict are connected in that the conflict between characters or within a character help to drive the plot, which included the events of the story and how the events come together.
Detailed explanation-3: -Clearly, the wallpaper represents the structure of family, medicine, and tradition in which the narrator finds herself trapped. Wallpaper is domestic and humble, and Gilman skillfully uses this nightmarish, hideous paper as a symbol of the domestic life that traps so many women.
Detailed explanation-4: -Although “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a work of fiction, it was based on Gilman’s own experience after being diagnosed as an hysteric and prescribed a “rest cure” which prohibited her writing and labelled her feminism and social critique as symptoms of uterine illness.