Representation

In my opinion representation means that we presenting something that cannot be presented or I can say that represent means to present again something. For example, if someone giving a cheque to other person, it means that the cheque is representing someone who gives those cheques. Then, this cheque has an authority to spend some value of money from someone who writes down on it.

As founding father of literary theory, Plato and Aristotle regarded Literature as simply one form of presentation but Aristotle defined all the arts—verbal, visual and musical as modes of representation. Mitchell states that representation is an extremely elastic notion which extends all the way from a stone representing a man to a novel representing a day in the life but sometimes one thing can stand for a whole group of things. There are two types of representation based on Mitchell, aesthetic or semiotic representation which means things that stands for other things and political representation which means persons who act for other person. Aristotle also states that there are three ways to differ the representation from one to another, in object, manner, and means. Object is which something represented; manner is the way which something represented and means is the material that we used to represented.

Gilbert and Gubar in The Madwoman in the Attic were the first to review the place of women both in literary figures and as a writer. They also argued on the work of Harold Bloom that women could not become writers because it not appropriate in the tradition (1979: 1). Gilbert and Gubar said in that time, the men writers place the women in his literary works to representing a man, therefore Virginia Woolf declared that if the women want to write, she must to kill the angel in the house. For Woolf, women must kill the aesthetic ideal that has been killed themselves into art.