“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe both use entombment as a motif in each of their stories and also embody gothic tradition. Perkins shows entombment in her short story when she describes a women trap behind the wallpaper. “Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move- and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawling around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.” (Gilman 780, Ln 381). In this part of the passage Jane the main character in the story is describing the women behind the wallpaper, Jane sees the women
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In gothic literature generally it includes elements of horror and gloom and creates in the readers feelings of terror and dread. Another example, is in the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” Poe shows entombment. This story shows entombment because Madeline is literally being entombed by her own brother. “The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of her youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in dead” (Poe 417, Ln 497). This quote shows it describes how Madeline is and how she look like. This quote explains the narrator’s reaction when he saw her. He saw that the sickness kept Madeline the same as when she started to get sick she still conserved her youth. That she still conserved her blushed cheeks as if she was not dead but still …show more content…
In the “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator is obsessed with this yellow wallpaper and she thinks that there is a pattern hidden in that paper so she stares at it. She finds that there are trapped behind the wallpaper. “They get through, and then the pattern strangles them off and turns them upside down, and makes their eyes white” (Gilman 781, Ln 389). “I wonder if they all come out of the wallpaper as I did?”(Gilman 783, Ln 474). In these quote Gilman explains what happens when the women try to get out of the yellow wallpaper. If they try to pass the pattern then they die, they get strangled and they get turned upside down and their eyes turn white. Jane, the narrator, also mentions if the women outside had come out of the wallpaper the same way that she did. This explains that she had been trapped and wants to escape, be free. The narrator describes her happiness of being free. “I’ve got out at last,’ said I ‘in spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back! Now why should that man have faint? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!” (Gilman 783, Ln 499). This is an example of woman oppression because John always told her what could and could not do. The narrator describes herself as being one of the woman’s in the wallpaper that were trapped but finally got
In gothic literature generally it includes elements of horror and gloom and creates in the readers feelings of terror and dread. Another example, is in the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” Poe shows entombment. This story shows entombment because Madeline is literally being entombed by her own brother. “The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of her youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in dead” (Poe 417, Ln 497). This quote shows it describes how Madeline is and how she look like. This quote explains the narrator’s reaction when he saw her. He saw that the sickness kept Madeline the same as when she started to get sick she still conserved her youth. That she still conserved her blushed cheeks as if she was not dead but still …show more content…
In the “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator is obsessed with this yellow wallpaper and she thinks that there is a pattern hidden in that paper so she stares at it. She finds that there are trapped behind the wallpaper. “They get through, and then the pattern strangles them off and turns them upside down, and makes their eyes white” (Gilman 781, Ln 389). “I wonder if they all come out of the wallpaper as I did?”(Gilman 783, Ln 474). In these quote Gilman explains what happens when the women try to get out of the yellow wallpaper. If they try to pass the pattern then they die, they get strangled and they get turned upside down and their eyes turn white. Jane, the narrator, also mentions if the women outside had come out of the wallpaper the same way that she did. This explains that she had been trapped and wants to escape, be free. The narrator describes her happiness of being free. “I’ve got out at last,’ said I ‘in spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back! Now why should that man have faint? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!” (Gilman 783, Ln 499). This is an example of woman oppression because John always told her what could and could not do. The narrator describes herself as being one of the woman’s in the wallpaper that were trapped but finally got