Comparing Jane Eyre and Yellow Wallpaper -- Comparison Compare Contras

Similarities Between Jane Eyre and discolour paper There are notable equalities between Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The yellow-bellied Wallpaper and Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre. These similarities include the treatment of space, the use of a gothic cantillate with elements of realism, a sense of male superiority, and the mental instability of women. There is a similar treatment of space in the two works, with the larger, upstairs rooms at the summer lodging and at Thornfield Hall being associated with insanity and the little rooms below being safer and saner. Gilmans narrator expresses an early desire to excise downstairs to a smaller, saner room, but her wish is ignored. Large rooms release haunted rooms in twain(prenominal) stories as typified by the room with the yellow wallpaper, the Red Room, and the third floor room beyond which Bertha is confined. both works contain gothic elements, but there is a conscious effort on the part of both narrators to dispel the gothic t one with elements of realism. Gilmans narrator begins to describe her eerie summer lodgings, but notes there was any(prenominal) legal trouble with the heirs and co-heirs... That spoils my ghostliness, I am afraid (11). Jane likewise is both affected by and resists the supernatural. For instance, she notes along with Grace Pooles fantastic laughter, her affinity for beer. However, the near notable similarity between the two works is the presence in each house of a madwoman in the attic (to borrow from gigabyte and Gubar). In the case of Gilmans narrator (unnamed, but with one ambiguous rootage that it may be Jane) and Bertha, madness id the result of traditional Victorian marriages, from which both transgress. Clearly implied in Gilmans text and interpretable in Brontes ... ...e Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. untried York Feminist Press, 1973. Golden, Catherine, ed. The Captive Imagination A Casebook on The Yellow Wallpaper. New York Feminist Press, 1992. ------. The Writing o f The Yellow Wallpaper A Double Palimpsest. Studies in American Fiction. 17 (1989) 193-201. Haney-Peritz, Janice. Monumental Feminism and Literatures Ancestral House other Look at The Yellow Wallpaper Womens Studies. 12 (1986) 113-128. Kasmer, Lisa. Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper A symptomatic Reading. Literature and Psychology. 36, (1990) 1-15. Lodge, Scott. Fire and Eyre Charlotte Brontes War of Earthly Elements. The Brontes A Collection of lively Essays. Ed. Ian Gregor. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice Hall, 1970. 110-36. Maynard, John. Charlotte Bronte and Sexuality. Cambridge Cambridge UP, 1984.