The appropriation of madness in the literary liberation of women
This is a comparative essay of the representations of unconventional women portrayed in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper (1892), Susan Glaspell’s The Verge (1921) and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl (2012). The essay explores and investigates the ways these three female authors appropriate...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62855 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This is a comparative essay of the representations of unconventional women portrayed in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper (1892), Susan Glaspell’s The Verge (1921) and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl (2012). The essay explores and investigates the ways these three female authors appropriate madness to give voice to their silenced female protagonists. Although written in different historical eras, the three pieces of creative writing — a short story, a three-act play and a contemporary murder mystery — share the commonality of exploring the changing and often complex roles of women in society. |
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