ENGB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper, Robert R. Reisz
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Edna"s relationship to her position as a mother and a wife. Overt sexuality and sensuality in the text had shocked readers complex relationship to women in the text mademoiselle reisz and madame ratigonolle: people being influenced by other people. Other social issues control of public and private spaces mr. pontellier"s damage control, 1327 saved appearances : he wants to make sure that people don"t think bad things about them racism, leburn is going to mexico. Everyone has an opinion about mexico, page 1286: madame hoped that robert in dealing treacherous no justice as a race personally implicitly stabbing his wife hanged or not . This has a lot to do with class these people are all aristocrats. Awaken to freedom: she doesn"t have to stay at home on tuesdays. Waken to possibility: there is life beyond being a mother and a wife. Awakens to her position in society: its scary, she doesn"t.
