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And even more so, don't confuse with the Basement-Dweller, who is free to come and go as he pleases, and is not ( usually) a danger to himself or others. Or the episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures which also borrows its name from the book (but isn't an example). Not to be confused with the company involved with the first season of Smash. If the character has recently moved into a new house which is already occupied, or a person moves in secretly while someone else is living there obliviously, it's Secret Squatter. If the madwoman is instead a monster, see Supporting the Monster Loved One.
Non-consensual sub-trope of The Shut-In, and one possible form of being Sent Into Hiding. Usually Ax-Crazy and/or The Grotesque, and sometimes Inbred and Evil. Maybe they're Ax-Crazy, maybe they suffer from an extremely contagious form of illness, or perhaps the person is being hidden for their own safety to keep them from being kidnapped or murdered. Of course, it can be the case that there was a very good reason this person was locked away in the first place. Obviously, this plan was not a complete success. The analysis indicates that this trope first popularly appeared, of all places, in Victorian women's literature, where depicting some women as crazy people was an easy way to make female villains with whom readers would be unlikely to sympathize. Rochester's wife in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
This trope is named for the landmark work of feminist literary criticism by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, referring to Mr. When done well, this can be an effective scare because it so aptly encapsulates the frightening insularity of the Town with a Dark Secret. The Madwoman will then either tend to be Dragon-type enemies with little personality of their own, or they're The Grotesque, sympathetic victims. In stories about this type of character, the protagonist is frequently an outsider, wondering what kind of bizarre secret the Corrupt Hicks are keeping. The more of a Big Fancy House, the better in fact, the smarter ones will sometimes have a secret system of peepholes and secret passages so they can move around as they please. This is when a character with mental problems and/or physical deformities is locked away because they will never fit into society, usually either in the attic or in the basement.
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