significate of women in Nosferatu and the yellow wallpaper
... ．Nosferatu・ and ．the Yellow Wall-paper・ are both typical example of gothic fiction. In these two stories, the women characters actually know something very important that can have great influence to other people. ... This essay will discuss the knowledge which women have in the two stories and what is other people・s attitude towards them. Women are usually more sensitive than men but these kinds of feeling often be treated as a fantasy and are ignored by men. In the beginning of ：Nosferatu；, Lucy was wakening from her horrible dream and screamed. ... The same thing happens in the narrator in ：The yellow wall-paper；. ... Although in this case, we do not know this strange feeling towards the wall-paper is a real premonition of something strange thing was going to happen in the house or just her fancy, the feeling of women was not respected again. Apart from feeling, the knowledge and wisdom of women is very significance in the two stories. In Nosferatu, Lucy was actually stronger and more knowledgeable than Jonathan was. ... In ．The yellow wall-paper・, the narrator also did not be accepted by anyone and no one believed what she thought. ... No one believed what she thought about her situation and the strange thing she saw in the yellow wall-paper in the room. ... She noticed that the patterns of that wallpaper were always changing. She knew there should be something hide inside that wallpaper. Actually, the reason she thought there was a woman inside the wallpaper might because she saw the wallpaper as a parallel to her own existence. She saw a woman who was similarly imprisoned behind the wallpaper・s pattern, which has ：unblinking eyes； and ：slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. ... That was why she wanted to help her escape from the wallpaper. Actually, what she felt towards the wallpaper was not totally unreasonable, she knew a little of the principle of design, and she said ：this thing was not arranged on any laws of radiation, or alternation, or repetition, or symmetry, or anything else that I ever heard of.