Discussion on the Images of "Mad Women" in Tie Ning s Rose Gate;

American feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman has,in her short story The Yellow Wallpaper,made a significant breakthrough in former female writers narrative tradition about mad women.

The three feministic works written at the turn of the century:"The Morning Bells Tolling in the Dusk","Feathered Snake" and "Wordless",portray three mad women,Liu Tianyuan,Yu and Wu Wei,who employ madness as their narrative strategy in revealing their state of being diagnosed as the ma.

Yellow wallpaper, mad woman, the predicament and rebellion of the women writers;

Chinese interpretation from 1986 to 1994 was characterized by the sudden prominence of feminist criticism and the focused interest in the propriety of the mad woman plot and its subsequent plots where feminist criticism found itself in fierce combat with the traditional realism criticism.

Bertha Mason who was imprisoned in the attic of Thornfield in Jane Eyre is not a mad woman.

The madwoman in the attic in Jane Eyre is deprived of the right of discourse.

Under the impetus of the feminist movement and criticism, the image of madwoman in Jane Eyre has come to arouse some interest and attention from people, but not seemingly enough.

Antoinette and Moon Orchid are madwomen narrated respectively in Jean Rhys s Wide Sargasso Sea and Maxine Hong Kingston s The Woman Warrior.

The character of the mad woman is frequently regarded as Jan s set-off,even is regarded as a symbol of the aristocrat society .