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Teresa Fitzpatrick presents a connection between oppressed women and the
plant of Wisteria in gothic fiction in her article “Wisteria: A Female Eco-Gothic Metaphor
in American Fiction Through the Ages.” The connection between women and nature is
common in literature as women are usually compared to the beauty or ferocity of
flowers, rivers, or natural phenomena in general. The connection extends to the
architecture and sort of plants that appear in gothic literature. Gothic novels have
routinely been connected to the secrets and life stories of women who cannot have the
liberty to live or share them outside their homes. A fearful house with a prisoned person, ghost, or a secret is mostly normally found in gothic writing. Women have exce
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