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Beauvoir, The Second Sex, and Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-paper”

Beauvoir, The Second Sex, and Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-paper”

Video from Derek Gladwin’s lecture in February 2015.

Posted in Derek Gladwin, lecture, Repetition Compulsion, video | Tagged with Beauvoir, C19th, C20th, Feminism, Gilman, Gothic, The Second Sex, The Yellow Wall-Paper, The Yellow Wallpaper

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 […]

Posted in blogs, lb4-2014 | Tagged with Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 →

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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 […]

Posted in blogs, lb4-2014 | Tagged with Beauvoir, Gilman, The Second Sex, The Yellow Wallpaper

The Metamorphosis, The Yellow Wallpaper

I’ve never really liked “The Metamorphosis”, probably because he becomes a disgusting cockroach-beetle thing, but also because I could never figure out how I felt about Gregor. On the one hand, he’s an idiot and his family takes advantage of that, living off of him, siphoning off money, locking him in his room, throwing apples […]Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb1-2012 | Tagged with Gilman, Kafka

The Metamorphosis & The Yellow Wallpaper

The Metamorphosis has now become one of my top 10 favorite short stories of all time. Yes, I absolutely loved it. The story hooks you in from the very first sentence, and it brings clearly to light one of the big themes of the entire work in that opener – the absurdity of life. It’s […]Continue reading →

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Yellow Wallpaper & Metamorphosis

I remember when I signed up for Arts One and I saw Kafka on the reading list. I’d never read anything by him, but when I saw it I immediately thought to myself “That one’s gonna be worth reading”. It’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The Metamorphosis & The Yellow Wallpaper

In my opinion, I found Kafka’s short story to intrigue me in more ways than some other pieces we have read so far. I thought that The Metamorphosis was an immensely compelling and tragic story. As I reader, I would … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb1-2012 | Tagged with Gilman, Kafka

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