Welcome back to Complexities with Khuffash! Last time we discussed Alina Starkov’s story in the trilogy Shadow and Bone, and how her’s is reminiscent of the trope of women and entrapment. Today we will be looking at the more physical attributes of entrapment for women, and how interestingly enough madness can be the key to freedom. Taking it a little ways back, the woman that we will be discussing today is The Narrator from the short story written in 1892, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This blog post will contain spoilers for the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
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Complexities with Khuffash: Alina Starkov in Shadow and Bone
Welcome to Complexities with Khuffash, here we will be discussing a trope that I have seen many times throughout literature from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to contemporary novels such as Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. The trope that we will be discussing is women and entrapment in literature. Entrapment can come in many different forms that being physical, mental, emotional, societal standards, etc; entrapping women in all forms means putting women in a box. The woman in contemporary literature that we will be discussing in this blog post is Alina Starkov from the trilogy Shadow and Bone. This blog post will contain spoilers for the Shadow and Bone trilogy.
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