科技信息
科技信息
과기신식
SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL INFORMATION
2009年
35期
1049,1054
,共2页
Patriarchal criteria%Confinement%Self-expression%Struggle
Saudra Gilbert and Susan Gubar summarized in The Madwoman in the Attic that women have been too long stereotyped by male writers either as "the angel in the house" or as "the mad woman in the attic". Through analyzing Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Divakaruni's The Disappearance, though set one centuries apart, this essay strives to reveal how the supposed angels are confined in and struggle against the constraint of marriage, society and repression and finally break through all these to achieve their self-realization and triumph, and therefore, in the eyes of their husband and in the male-dominated society become mad woman. Their respective insanity and disappearance are defined by the male- dominated terms, in the first case, the woman breaks through the confinement only when she becomes "mad", in the latter one, the heroine finds her own identity and comes into being only when she "disappears".
