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Essay on Women Madness and Oppression or Perspectives of Madness in Womens Literature | ||
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This is the first 1,000 characters of 6090 words (24.36 pages) in the essay titled Women Madness and Oppression or Perspectives of Madness in Womens Literature Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.--Fiorello La Guardia, Politics of Experience What a weak barrier truth is when it stands in the way of a hypothesis. --Mary Wollstoncraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women Whom the Gods destroy they first make mad. To the ancient mind, madness was assigned by the Gods as punishment for human weakness, vice and transgression. Cassandra, daughter of King Priam, was punished by the god Apollo; her foresight and accurate predictions were considered by the inhabitants of Troy to be no more than the ludicrous rantings of a madwoman. This notion of insanity prevailed throughout the Western world well into the nineteenth century where madness was thought to result from various biological and spiritual improprieties. With the birth of modern psychology, male institutions of government, law and literature found an important ally. Following the first Women s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 and the subsequent growth of the universal suffrage movement, women across the country began to push the limits of the cultural constraints in which they had been bound, disregarding the austere Victorian rhetoric of the times. Insanity, madness, neurosis and other mental, emotional and psychological disorders became the overwhelming response to their independence, intelligence and resignation. Men, in general, wrot... |
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Keywords: fiorello la guardia, daughter of king priam, womens literature, law and literature, ludicrous, hysteria, insanity, neurosis, austere, politics of experience, god apollo, epidemic levels, vindication of the rights of women, president mckinley, seneca falls new york, accurate predictions, nervous disorders, human weakness, movement women, push the limits