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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American feminist writer and sociologist born in 1860. Some of her major theoretical works examined women and economics. She also wrote several utopian novels. Her most famous work, The Yellow Wallpaper, was published in 1892 and tells the story of a woman who is confined to an upstairs bedroom and slowly descends into madness. The story uses symbolism and explores themes of the individual against the patriarchal system and a woman's journey of self-discovery.

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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American feminist writer and sociologist born in 1860. Some of her major theoretical works examined women and economics. She also wrote several utopian novels. Her most famous work, The Yellow Wallpaper, was published in 1892 and tells the story of a woman who is confined to an upstairs bedroom and slowly descends into madness. The story uses symbolism and explores themes of the individual against the patriarchal system and a woman's journey of self-discovery.

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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American feminist writer and sociologist born in 1860. Some of her major theoretical works examined women and economics. She also wrote several utopian novels. Her most famous work, The Yellow Wallpaper, was published in 1892 and tells the story of a woman who is confined to an upstairs bedroom and slowly descends into madness. The story uses symbolism and explores themes of the individual against the patriarchal system and a woman's journey of self-discovery.

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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    1860 - 1935
    Major Works
    Theoretical Works
    1898 – Women and Economics
    1900 – Concerning Children
    1911 – Man-Made World

    Utopian Novels
    1911 – Moving the Mountain
    1915 – Herland
    1916 – With Her in Ourland
    The Yellow Wallpaper
    Analysis
    Subjects
    Point of View and Characterization
    Use of Language and Style
    Plot
    Symbolism
    Intention
    Subjects
    Individual Against the System
    • Patriarchal
    • Gender Roles

    Journey to Self-Discovery?
    • Descent? Escape?
    • Discovery? Freeing?
    POV and Characterization
    Perspective
    • Who is speaking?
    • What form of writing?
    • Effect on reader?

    Characters
    • How many?
    • What Types?
    • Protagonist? Antagonist?
    • Development?
    Language and Style
    • Associative (journal writing)
    – Secrecy
    – Insanity

    • Striking imagery
    – Wallpaper
    – Woman

    • Irony and Dramatic Irony


    – For the husband: What is the problem? What is the cure?
    – For the wife: What is the problem? What is the cure? What does she hate? What
    does she love?
    – “He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction”
    (512).
    Plot
    Conflict – wife and husband
    • What does she wish? What does he wish?
    • Does it reflect a deeper conflict in society?

    Rising Tension
    • What adds to this tension? Is there escape?

    Escape?/Climax?
    • Escape and confinement. Is it a “cure”?
    Symbolism
    • Allegory?
    – A kind of literature in which concrete things – characters, events and objects –
    represent ideas.
    – What other text have we read that is allegorical?

    • Gothic elements?
    – Setting and state of mind

    • The wallpaper
    – What is hidden in the design?
    – What is low along the wall?

    • The other woman/women


    – Submission? Escape?

    • Symbolic irony
    – “Over my dead body”
    Themes in TYW can also be seen in
    “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”
    • Destructive nature of gender roles
    • Suffocating effect of paternal (fatherly) system
    • Love = persecution for women
    • Suppression of women ruins lives and families
    • There is a need to change patriarchal authority

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