碩士 / 國立高雄師範大學 / 英語學系 / 92 / Both heroines in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea have similar encounters and fates. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is based on Gilman’s own experiences; Jean Rhys writes Wide Sargasso Sea to give Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre a voice and a complete life. The two texts both feature the patriarchal oppression and madness of the two leading female characters. The unnamed heroine in “The Yellow Wallpaper” suffers from gradually growing mental breakdown by repressing and being repressed her own sense of self-awareness and self-realization; Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea has been labeled as a mad woman by others, partly because of the impression of her mother and partly because of purposeful intention. By the end of both texts, the two heroines make their own choices─liberating themselves.
There are five chapters in this thesis. In Chapter One “Introduction,” I depict the background of the two texts, come up with the topics and main ideas I would like to offer in my thesis, and make a brief summary of them. In addition, I introduce some literature reviews of the two texts. In Chapter Two “Patriarchal Oppression,” I examine the representatives of the patriarchal oppression, or the patriarchal oppressors the two heroines face and suffer from in the two texts. In Chapter Three “Madness,” I discuss the two heroines’ madness, including the way that they look like mad women, the way they are looked upon as mad women, and the way they are treated as mad women. In Chapter Four “Possible Choices,” I treat the ending of the texts and discuss the final possible choices they make under such oppression. In Chapter Five “Conclusion,” I combine the previous three chapters, analyze the relation and causality among them and make my conclusion.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/092NKNU0240057 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Creators | I-tzu Lin, 林奕孜 |
| Contributors | Ching-chi Chen, Wen-chuan Chu, 陳靖奇, 朱雯娟 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 93 |
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