ENG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Radical Feminism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 110
• Professor: Jonathan Rollins

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Lecture 5: the yellow wallpaper and diving into the wreck. Is it light, solemn, serious, playful etc: my reception to the text is affected my own literary and cultural context that i take in, called a cultural repertoire, third person is used to get a limited, objective pov. It is not until the middle of the 20th century that women gain release from these extremes. John and jane, generic names names imply that any man or woman can have these problems: dichotomy: two opposite concepts popular in this story, e(cid:454). (cid:449)ife a(cid:374)d patie(cid:374)t, lo(cid:448)er(cid:859)s la(cid:374)guage (cid:448)s i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)tilizi(cid:374)g effe(cid:272)t, da(cid:455) (cid:448)s (cid:374)ight. John treats her like he oversees her while they are supposed to be like lovers who are equal. Jane also sleeps in the day when she should be sleeping at night. Issues o(cid:374) (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal health a(cid:374)d (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s equality still exist: pg 650: attitude change she (cid:449)rites: (cid:862)i(cid:859)(cid:373) getti(cid:374)g reall(cid:455) fo(cid:374)d of the roo(cid:373) i(cid:374) spite of the (cid:449)allpaper.