relation or reaction to setting, and in their eschewing of the linear narrative form. Both writers employ main characters who struggle against the mental fall-out of having experienced catastrophic events – with the World War Two-era firebombing of the German city of Dresden, in particular, playing a central role in each novel – and both authors reject or disrupt the linear narrative structure with frequent shifts in narrative time. Rather than truly deal with the traumas they have suffered,
Postmodernism is meta-fiction, it draws attention to itself as a work of fiction, and is self-conscious as being fiction. The postmodern authors are trying to expose the complicated relationship between fiction and non-fiction, by making the stories they tell all about fiction. Individuals are unique, original and authentic. The identity is a composite. It is constructed by the forces of culture around us. The typical form in postmodernism is science fiction, in which open forms, play, anarchy,
The concept of motherhood constitutes one of the staples of Western culture. In fact, the family is generally considered the basis of our society, since it is supposed to offer protection from the outer world, and to transmit the essential values necessary to act properly in the public sphere to children. The nurturing and educative role has traditionally been linked to the maternal figure, who goes on being considered the primary caretaker for children. The idea of the mother as the central source
Realism is a wayof writing that reflects cultural and societal practices of the period at the time of writing the piece. Naturalism describes how literature tries to explain determinism. Gilman creates a first person account of her ailing mental illness. “The Yellow Wallpaper” “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story that was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This story is oppressive, and it uses a female as the main character. In our minds, this creates an image of a woman who suffers. Use
challenged and most studied writings of literature. Literary critics have viewed this short story in many other perceptions counting the feminist and anti-feminist perception, psychological, and even the perception viewing The Yellow Wallpaper as science-fiction writing. Many predictors have even declared that the work’s speaker is an image of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her political outlooks on psychology during that time. Nonetheless, most recurrently, there have been two main critical psychological standpoints:
reading the story, I took a careful look at the title and predicted that this piece would be comparable to that of Frankenstein. The name of the title character paints the picture of a mad scientist, and the mention his so-called experiment alluded to a mental image of a creepy laboratory. In terms of plot, I assumed that his experiment would somehow backfire - and I shuddered just thinking about the endless possibilities. Facts: Dr. Heidegger invites four elderly friends over to his rather eerie study:
The Gothic is the study of the otherness; the unseen. It disturbs us as it is associated with anxiety, chaos, darkness, the grotesque and evokes images of death, destruction and decay. (Steele, 1997)According to Catherine Spooner in ‘Contemporary Gothic’ 2006, “The Gothic lurks in all sorts of unexpected corners.” It is incredibly broad - superstitions, the uncanny, the monstrous, the forgotten past, the Gothic feminine - to name but a few are all elements which combine to form this theme. The Gothic