Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Insane or Unjust

Teachers should let their students interpret ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Gilman anyway they see best fit. It takes away their motion of thought when you limit the perspectives someone can have when reading the story. At the end the character has several ghost like qualities involving creeping and the way she responds by whispering in a very soft tone to her husband and his supposed reaction to her is unnoticed like she isn’t even saying anything as it is. (Paragraph 255-267). Feminists view points in the story included wanting to write and visit family members (Paragraphs76-77, 112), although that doesn’t last for very long and she ends up doing as John or Jane say. When putting the ideas of a feminist compatible with a gothic ghost story does not really fit what is going on in the story. At very short times during the story does it ever present the possibility of being either but not enough evidence of one gives the story away for being feminist or gothic. The only way the two can be compatible is by sharing moments in the story with which they could only share a common ground. Other then that the feministic and gothic view cannot be comparable.

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