Tokley, Anne-Marie2015-01-132015-01-131999http://hdl.handle.net/10179/6089Female madness is not always caused by the domination of women. In the texts Jane Eyre, "The Yellow Wallpaper", Wide Sargasso Sea, and Faces in the Water, however, male domination, and female imprisonment do have a relationship to madness. Medical discourse rose to a position of great power in the nineteenth century, as science and reason really began to take over. Suddenly there was a scientific and biological theory behind female inferiority, greatly influencing doctors' perspective of their female patients, and contributing to the enforcement of traditionally female roles. Whilst madness is a real and greatly misunderstood illness, these four texts illustrate that the internalisation and socialisation of medical discourse locked women into roles that, it was believed, they were not capable of escaping.enThe AuthorPatriarchy in literatureDominance (Psychology) in literatureMental illness in literatureSex role in literatureWomen in literatureCharlotte Brontë,Charlotte Perkins GilmanJean RhysJanet Frame"Faces in the water"Jane Eyre"Wide sargasso sea""Yellow wallpaper"ThesisQ112850010https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112850010