Tracking the Idea of Gothic in Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Keywords:
Tracking, Idea of GothicAbstract
Today, the idea of Gothic is talked about as a global phenomenon that transcends its Western origins and traditional narrative while establishing the aesthetic as a common practice. The constant development of this phenomenon opens up several fresh possibilities for literary inventiveness from all around the world. The elements like displacement, violence, loss, suffering, solitude, misery, trauma, horror, grief, fantasy, otherness, regret, abjection, and shame are all undeniably related to gothic and that can be easily identified in numerous Indian writings that can surely be studied via gothic lens. The present paper explores how different writers from different geographical locations use the idea of gothic in some or other way to solve their purposes. Further it studies “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock simultaneously through the lens of gothic and, in this way, highlights the similarities and differences in their characterisation, themes, setting and imagery.
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