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Rachel Maria Berney (114 KP) rated The Yellow Wall-Paper in Books

Dec 4, 2018 (Updated Dec 4, 2018)  
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry
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If you love gothic, read this.
I had to read this for my English module at uni, and am really glad I did.
On the surface its really gothic and really creepy. Very well written and the author paints a great picture of someone going insane.
Underneath the surface, this is an attack on patriarchy in the enlightenment period. Knowing this makes it a completely different read, not so much gothic and more feminist and historic. There's a clear aim that to show the reader how enlightened men drive women insane.
On a side note, Charlotte gives us the first image of a creeping scary thing, way before we see this in horror movies in the 20th century.