"The Yellow Wall-Paper": A Classic Piece of Gothic Literature

According to literature and language art: in the definition provided in the American tradition, the Gothic novel is a novel style characterized by dark atmosphere of fear and darkness, grotesque, mysterious and violent events (229). A scene that evokes a strong feeling or a scene feared by expectations is also indispensable for this type. According to these standards, "Yellow wallpaper" is a classical Gothic literary work. Among them, Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses many elements of the Gothic tradition to tell the story of a crazy woman.

This bachelor thesis deals with the crazy theme of "yellow wallpaper" and "fall of Arthur's cottage". This work is divided into three chapters. The first part analyzes "Yellow wallpaper" from the perspective of feminism, madness and mental health themes, Gothic literature and racial discrimination. The second part is dedicated to the meaning of symbols in the context of "the collapse of the house of Usher" and its madness theme, Gothic literature and the context of this story. In the last part, compare the elements of Gothic literature with short stories from the aspect of mental state and crazy theme. A review is also included at the end of working with this document

According to literature and language art: in the definition provided in the American tradition, the Gothic novel is a novel style characterized by dark atmosphere of fear and darkness, grotesque, mysterious and violent events (229). A scene that evokes a strong feeling or a scene feared by expectations is also indispensable for this type. According to these standards, "Yellow wallpaper" is a classical Gothic literary work. Among them, Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses many elements of the Gothic tradition to tell the story of a crazy woman. The physical environment created by Gilman in "Yellow wallpaper" certainly gives people sinister feelings and nervous expectations. in the beginning...

When people think about Gothic elements, people think about architecture and architecture. With yellow wallpaper, the house is relatively modern, there is no function that may be related to Gothic. By contrast, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's women's narrator tells stories in the form of letters. The story looks as though it is from a diary or a letter, but it becomes an element of Gothic style. Wallpaper also evolved into Gothic style elements. At first, this seems to be normal, the narrator only gazes at a specific place on the wall. As the story goes forward, the pattern of the wallpaper looks vivid. Several supernatural phenomena seems to work, but it is regarded as an element of Gothic style. This model seemed to fall into the pattern of wallpaper and developed into a woman who could not remove her confinement. The narrator looks crazy, but it develops into the third Gothic element.