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How does the narrator's madness represent a sign of resistance to patriarchy?
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submissiveness, and she instinctively obeys John because he is "a physician of high standing,
and [her] own husband" and, moreover a man. Howeve , in her madness she starts to
recognize and rebel against the patriarchal forces intent on controlling her. Ultimately in
causing John to faint and creeping "over him every time" she finds in her madness the power to
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