ENGL 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Yellow Wallpaper, Gothic Fiction, Third-Wave Feminism
20 Jan 2016
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2 sides of narrator"s personality coming together in sonny"s life. Step in the right direction narrator agrees to support sonny at the. Cup of trembling symbol of affliction. God has the power to take it away and suffering ends. Sonny"s affliction (cup of trembling) is still with him. Narrator setting himself up in sonny"s life as god, ordered sonny the drink in the first place. No amount of brotherly love will solve sonny"s problems club. Typical gothic fiction characteristics: isolated mansion, gloomy atmosphere, evil tyrants, persecuted heroine. Setting is more the young woman"s mind. Doesn"t try to establish a certain atmosphere, is more focused on the psychological point of view. Creepiness from the gradual shift fro reasonable to psychotic. Jenny symbolic of the cyclical oppression of the patriarchy. Confined to the rest-cure (dr. s. weir mitchell: isolated, forbidden to perform manual/imaginative tasks, must stay in bed, prescribed for mental disorder including hysteria, often led to worsening of symptoms.
