LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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To represent the expansion of Gothic literary spaces from only subterranean spaces to attics as well
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To represent the shift from the male Gothic villain to the female Gothic villain in the Victorian Gothic novel
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To make reference to the rise of personal responsibility in Victorian England for the care of the sick and insane
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To make an ironic statement about the point of view and marginalization of the “Other” in Victorian England
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Detailed explanation-1: -The madwoman in the attic is most often used as a symbol of what people do to women whenever they’re not meek and perfect and quiet, or as a way to constantly poke at another character’s conscience.
Detailed explanation-2: -The sexual repression, social isolation and emotional trauma that Bertha undergoes after being betrayed and cheated on by Rochester are shown by Jean Rhys in Wide Sargasso Sea as reasons responsible for Bertha’s (supposed) madness.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination is a 1979 book by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, in which they examine Victorian literature from a feminist perspective.
Detailed explanation-4: -One major theme of The Madwoman in the Attic is feminism. In this work, modern literary critics Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar apply contemporary feminist perspectives to nineteenth-century literature.