ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Gaston Bachelard, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
13 Mar 2013
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The change of our psychological experiences: the sudden glimpse of freedom and stirring of imagination. The experience of confinement and the attempt to get better. Relationship between sickness and confinement: husbands perspective: because she is ill, she has to be kept in a protective space. The husband sees the desire to express herself creatively as the illness itself. He identifies creative activity with sickness: her perspective: trying to break loose by writing things down. She wants to write a journal but it tires her. She sees that as an avenue of escape expressing creative energy. Dead paper indicates that there is a certain detachment in her mind as well: a conditioning of what the paper is before she starts to write, pattern of death and life. This is dead paper and a great relief to my mind contrasting paradox. She actually becomes to final character that is suggested.
