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The Madwoman in the Attic

by Sandra Ellen Mortola, Susan Gubar

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Examine briefly the issue implied in the parables of the cave.


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What are the major themes in Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic?


Could you please explain how Wuthering Heights realizes, in Gilbert and Gubar's reading, a rewriting of canonical male texts such as Milton's Paradise Lost?


Please explain the quote "If what I do prove well, it won't advance/ They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance" from The Madwoman in the Attic.


Where does the novel The Madwoman in the Attic take place?


Please explain and comment on the following stanza from "The Madwoman in the Attic": "Her lips were not open, not a sound came through the parted lines of red. Whatever it was, the hideous wound in silence and secret bled."


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