The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination What's more, the woman of the house was considered distinctly to be she shows up in each room, as per the idea of the master of the room. None observed the entire of her, none yet herself. For the light which she was both her mirror and her body. None could tell the entire of her, none yet herself (Laura Riding qtd. by Gilbert and Gubar, 3). Starting Gibert and Gubar’s piece about the situation of female journalists during the nineteenth century, this section evokes pictures of ladies as transient structures, insubstantial and uncertain. It appears to be such a being would never have enough office to get a pen and keep in touch with herself into history. All things considered, this lady, anyway vast by others, can know herself. This section of The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, titled â€Å"The Queen’s Looking Glass,† examines how the outside, and especially male, portrayals of a lady can influence her so much that the picture she finds in the mirror is not, at this point her own. In this way, female authors are left with an issue. As Gibert and Gubar state, â€Å"the lady writer’s self-thought might be said to have started with a looking through look into the reflection of the male-engraved scholarly content. There she would see from the start just those endless lineaments fixed on her like a mask†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (Gilbert and Gubar, 15). In Charlotte Bront㠫’s Villette, the storyteller and courageous woman Lucy Snowe is confronted with a lot of â€Å"reflections† which could impact her mental self view and become impeding to her composition. In any case, she knows that the mirrors she discovers, regardless of whether the exacting reflection of the mirror or her appearance in other characters’ ... ... creators demanded that they are† (43). Nonetheless, rather than doing â€Å"fiery and self-destructive tarantellas out of the looking glass,† (44) Lucy Snowe chooses to overlook the erroneous portrayals in the mirrors around her and center her energies toward building her very own reflection †the â€Å"circular reflection of crystal† she is continually scanning for yet that must be found in the content itself. The line Gilbert and Gubar apply to Brontã « and other effective ladies scholars is additionally substantial for Lucy. â€Å"The old quiet move of death turned into a move of triumph, a move into discourse, a move of authority† (44). Works Cited Gilbert, Sandra M. also, Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale UP, 1979. O’Dea, Gregory. â€Å"Narrator and Reader in Charlotte Bront㠫’s Villette.† South Atlantic Review 53.1 (1988): 41-57.