ENGC15H3 Lecture Notes - Elaine Showalter, Peggy Kamuf, Alice Walker
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Essay: you look at the text, and you apply certain critical theories to it. Sandra grubar, and gilbert s the mad woman in the attic. Bertha mason, rochester s first wife, not jane s rival, but her other half full of anxiety and angst. Bertha mason, creole woman from west indies, monstrous figure of colonial otherness and must perish. Jane eyre can become the feminist individualist heroine of british fiction. Madwoman feared to be woman monomyth: masquerading women in lit, colette s the hidden woman . A doctor s wife, goes to a masquerade ball and dances with all these people. He can t reprimand her, because though he s got an inkling that it s her, he can t stop her, cause he can t be sure it s her. Suggests not only that the masquerade is a role, but the gentle middle- class femininity position of wife is also one: masque: eyes wide shut.
