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Lecture 10 - 12 - Narrative

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von Janina G.

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)

  • Realism

  • Feminist short story

    • tries to be feminist but actually she is not as she still does what others want her to do (take the medicine)

  • Collection of diary entries

    • Wallpaper is mirroring her mind (confused, hard to read)

  • Questions the role of women in society and mental health ( usually considered hysterical if you didn’t follow the norm)

    • Women in this time should do what others tell her or expect from her, especially the husband

    • would like to pursue her own ideas which makes her different than other women

    • Wants to defy the norm (not allowed to write but does it anyway)

  • haunted house almost a simile to her mind ( her mind is also haunted) →external

    • Woman is haunted – husband doesn’t believe her

    • Want to make her husband feel the way she does

    • her own husband doesn’t take her seriously but also her husband as a doctor doesn’t take her seriously

  • The narrator (the character ) can’t relate to her husband John

    • Poison relationship as her husband is the reason for her getting more and more sick

    • Tried to talk to him but gave up really quickly

    • seems like she is feeling lonely as her husband is always gone (only there at night)

    • could imply that he also leaves her alone with her problems (he doesn’t think she is sick as her husband or as a doctor)

  • her baby doesn’t play a big role in the story

    • but maybe it’s the reason for her sickness as it  indicates Postpartum depression

  • At the end  she locked herself in the room

    • going crazy as she believes there is a women behind the wallpaper

    • believes that she was also a women behind a wallpaper and don’t want to be put back

  • yellow wallpaper symboloses the obsession of the narrator

  • diaray as a symbol of rebellion

    • shows us the life of the mind that the narrator has been forced to give up

    • written in a sometimes confusing way or just hard to read

  • women behind the wallpaper as she identifies herself entirely with this mysterious figure.

  • Unreliable narrator

    • the mode of narration is changing

    • first person narrator

  • Free direct thought as we are getting the characters thoughts

  • Ellipsis through time jumps (e.g. we have been here two weeks)

  • Stretch through her thoughts

  • Isochrony through dialogues

  • Pause as we are getting extra information through comments eg. of the room

  • Extradiegetic level

  • No intradiegetic level

  • Autodiegetic narrator as she is the main character

  • Narration changes in the end of the story

    • Now what happens right now (present)

    • Before it was a diary entry from the past

    • She as a person changes which is why the narration changes

    • Frees herself (breaks free from the paper)

    • Breaks free from being caged by her husband

  • overt narration

  • dynamic internal focalization


Author

Janina G.

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