Transgressor women:

A view of madness as a frontal way of fight.

-November 12
th
, 2013-
The last week there were an literature encounter in th seminar and in there was lectures given students
talking about their works. I choose two of those lectures for do this work. irst I will e!"ose the
argument of those works# Madwomen: Locked Up in the Space between Reality and Fiction b$ %amila
%&ceres and Anonymity Runs in Their Bloods b$ 'aniela del (ino, and then I will conect them with the
controversial image of woman in The sun also rises b$ )rnest *emingwa$.
Madwomen: Locked Up in the Space between Reality and Fiction b$ %amila %&ceres
This lecture e!"ose the idea of the women locked u" well as in fiction and in realit$ and she "ro"osed
tha image of the madwomen throght the histor$, e!actl$ as the tittle of the "a"er, she made an analog$
between three te!ts+ Hamlet b$ ,illiam -hakes"eare, ide Sar!asso Sea b$ .ane )$re and The yellow
wallpaper b$ %harlotte (erkins /ilman, in those te!ts are introducing the madwoman in differents
wa$s. irst we have the character of 0"helia in Hamlet the girl who was taken to madness and suicide
because she is in love with *amlet and she "la$s the role of women, she re"resent and show us the role
of women in those times, she was locked u" all time# first emotionall$ and "s$chologicall$, during the
"la$ she alwa$s follows the rules that was given b$ her father or her brother, ever$time she a""ear in
the "la$ somebod$ is telling her something that she must to do. 1eartes and (olonio tell her that she
must to leave *amlet, the kings that she have to disclose her relationshi", *amlet tells her to go to a
convent, and "$sichall$, when she is 2mentall$ sane3 she a""ears alwa$s inside of the castle ma$be
with "eo"le around but she is alone. -he a""ears outside 4ust one time when she is committed suicide.
In ide Sar!asso Sea is introducing the madness as an heritage and a common characteristic in women.
5ecause of the fact that the mother of 6ntoneitte was catalogued as mad but if in this da$s we see
s$m"toms of a de"ression or another mental ill. -he was diagnosed mad b$ her husband, and he locked
u" her in a mansion with the su"ervision of his servant. 6gain we can see the loneliness as a cause or a
efect of mandness. 6nd finall$ in The "ellow allpaper it is "resented the image of the clinical
madwoman, she also was diagnosed b$ her husband of a neurasthenia but she was locked u" into a
room with a $ellow wall"a"er, she mustn7t to do an$thing 4ust being in rest, during the da$s "ast she
begins to see locked women inside of the wall"a"er and she start to have visions, ilusions, first she is
afraid from the wall"a"er but at the end she become com"letl$ mad and she feel that she mustn7t be
se"ared from the wall# in the "resent da$s those s$m"toms are from a "ostnatal de"ression with a
treatment totall$ different.
Anonymity Runs in Their Bloods b$ 'aniela del (ino
-he gives us an e!"lanation of women anon$mit$, in al sense such as economical, social, etc, in a
"atrialchal sociaet$, how those women that want to break with that inflicted silence e!"ress herself, and
how this ha""en, we can see it in great anon$mous written works that was made it b$ women. -he
"resent the essa$ A Room o# $ne%s $wn b$ 8irginia ,oolf as an e!am"le of the fight of women, it is a
feminist essa$ against the "atriarchal societ$, she said that a woman have to have an own room and
mone$ to could dedicate to writing. -o what ha""en with women that not have that chance, well those
women ma$be without a "lace in societ$, mone$ or a room for dedicate her lifes to writing, those
women write from the anon$mit$.
-o thinking about those conce"ts we can see how the "atriarchal societ$ heritage from victorian age
and those ages from before ages and on and on, through the histor$, where women was sent to countr$
houses for live isolated, far awa$ from the societ$, creating in a wa$ their best "arts 9as the anon$mit$
giving the credits to another: or 4ust carr$ them to madness. ;ntil this da$s the changes are
im"erce"tibles, discrimination kee"s e!isting, $et are cultures with those habits, well I mean that the$
still consider women as ob4ects, silence their voices.
6nd also make me think about those women that was encourage to face it to the "ower of men, tr$ing
all time to demostrate in a wa$ that the$ are e<ual or also more ca"ables that them 9men:, that the$
9women: are as ca"able as men to do another things, and have the same rights to en4o$, to vote, as to
get out of theirs homes and break those locks and the silent. 6ll those women was transgressor in a
wa$, from the anon$mit$. -o as an e!am"le of a transgressor is 1ad$ 5rett 6shle$, from The sun also
rises, this character introduce a 207s woman that have mone$, she is n$m"homaniac, she causes
controvers$, she is free from the man7s rule, and also we need to bear in mind that she have war
wounds, she is a "ost war women so she felt that the life is to living right now and without worries, she
dress as a man and make that other women and men gossi" about her, her behaviour is like a man, but
she still being a woman.
-o from a "oint+ women7s madness is transgressor for men7s world, the$ break the rules of men such as
the woman who have the need of writte, or work, or vote, or an$thing else, all those women was called
mad, cra=ies, because some time ago women do not think and also was believed that the$ was not
human beings. -o those women are not so different from 1ad$ 6shle$, the$ want inside of them be
heard...b$ each other...b$ the world.