Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-paper”
In Arts One this week, we’re reading parts of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex and all of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wall-Paper.” I didn’t gauge the time well in class yesterday, and we didn’t get as much time to talk about Gilman’s story as I wanted! My fault. So I […]
Women and Horror
This is actually my second time reading the Yellow Wallpaper; although the first time I read it was in elementary school and so I barely remembered anything about it. Especially how creepy it was! I mean, as a child I understood it was spooky, but it was only reading it as an adult (and especially reading […]
The Yellow Wallpaper and who is Jane?
I really enjoyed reading The Yellow Wallpaper since there are so many things going on. It made me think about the narrator and question her sanity. That is not usually something I do when reading. Narrators are almost always trusted and their mental capabilities are not questioned. I can only think of The Penelopiad, or […]
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper is a poem designed to “save people from being driven crazy” according to Charlotte Gilman. I remember reading this poem in my grade 10 English class. My teacher at the time loved unsettling literature and picked out … Continue reading →
Woman as The Relative Gender
Personally, I found de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex quite difficult to understand, partially because I know nothing about feminism, but also because it is generally hard to relate to the strong opinions of others. Nevertheless, there were several interesting points that I found have resonated with me. I will mainly talk about the introduction of the […]
De Beauvoir, Nietzsche and the Boundary
In this blog post I will often refer to the present. In some cases the present means today and some it means the 1900’s or the 1800’s. For the most part I agree with Simone de Beauvoir, The Middle Sex, especially with what she writes in the introduction. Women are and have been oppressed by men […]
de Beauvoir and Gilman’s woman
From the moment I began reading The Second Sex, I had the impression that de Beauvoir is a very intelligent woman. Starting her introduction with tactics of rhetoric, she asks questions such as ‘what is a woman?’ ‘why is it that women do not dispute male sovereignty?’ These are provocative questions that we can still […]
Student questions about Northanger Abbey
In Arts One, I ask two students per seminar meeting to come to class with questions for us to discuss. Since I was sick on Friday, they didn’t get to ask their questions in class. I decided to post them on my blog instead so others in the class could see them and possibly give […]
Northanger Abbey, Gothic Novels, Zombies and Video Games
I am unfortunately not feeling well enough to be in class today for Arts One, though I can lie down and type on the computer so I’m putting some thoughts on this week’s book and film on my blog. First up: Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. Northanger Abbey and gothic novels The narrator I was really […]
Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey was one of the books I looked forward to reading, as I’ve read her other works in the past, with Pride and Prejudice being my absolute favorite. My first impression of the novel was that it wasn’t quite as interesting as P&P, seeing as it started off quite slow and ordinary. But, one […]