On Binary Opposition in The Yellow Wallpaper  

作　　者：戴亚芬 DAI Ya-fen(School of Foreign Language,Anhui Normal University,Wuhu 241002,China)

机构地区：[1]安徽师范大学外国语学院

出　　处：《海外英语》2018年第2期158-160,共3页Overseas English

摘　　要：The Yellow Wallpaper is the masterpiece of the prominent American female writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman(1860-1935). Trying to illustrate the ideology and women status in the 19 th century from the perspective of binary opposition, this paper is going to explore how the narrator escapes from the patriarchal confinement and finally achieves independence by employing the artistic technique of binary opposition. The three sets of binary opposition reveals the confrontation between madness and sense, anarchy and order, silence and discourse and how the narrator finds her way out from the oppressive patriarchal culture.The Yellow Wallpaper is the masterpiece of the prominent American female writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman（1860-1935）. Trying to illustrate the ideology and women status in the 19 th century from the perspective of binary opposition, this paper is going to explore how the narrator escapes from the patriarchal confinement and finally achieves independence by employing the artistic technique of binary opposition. The three sets of binary opposition reveals the confrontation between madness and sense, anarchy and order, silence and discourse and how the narrator finds her way out from the oppressive patriarchal culture.

关 键 词：The Yellow Wallpaper GILMAN binary opposition patriarchal rebellion 

分 类 号：I106[文学—世界文学]