A Study on the Binary Opposition Structure in "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a classic work of feminist literature, which profoundly reveals the survival predicament and the awakening of subjectivity of women in the patriarchal society. This essay employs binary opposition analysis method, integrating feminism theory, discourse and power theory and space theory, to systematically deconstruct the heroine’s resistance path from four dimensions: gender power, cognitive style, existence status and spatial politics. Through the intersectional interpretation from different theoretical perspectives, this study not only expands the interpretation space of the text, but also reveals the enlightening significance of the female resistance paradigm constructed by Gilman for contemporary women’s persuit of discourse power, providing a new interpretation approach for feminist literary criticism.