A Change of Heart

[changeling67]

After watching A Doll's House, I decided that I couldn't write an assignment on it.  Possibly because I was drawing too many uncomfortable parallels. I may compare A Doll's House as a secondary reading; it just made me unexpectedly unhappy very deep down. So Instead, I am doing the Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper. I find the narrative voice less irritating, even though the script is more harrowing in places.  For those not familiar with this story, it is about a woman mental decline from post natal depression, made ten times worse by her husband and supporting family.  In short she is imprisoned in a bedroom allegedly for her own good.

Story is HERE

I have also changed my Romantics choice - I did Blake over two years ago and I think I will just regurgitate the stuff I did from Access and I don't really want to do this.  So, I have gone for Anna Barbauld and her poems on autumn and spring. Still working on film script and I have to prepare my ILS rough draft for the lecturer, who is coming down from Plymouth (she will be assessing and recommending what I do for the major dissertation for the third).

Comments

[ladymizra.livejournal.com]

I like this a lot. I always remembered this story, reading it in high school, and the older you get, the more chilling it becomes. For when it was written, it was an important commentary on how they treated women thought to be suffering from 'hysteria'. I'm so glad we have advanced from that sort of thinking about mental illness. Still definitely not perfect, but at least we know not to lock people up who suffer from depression.

Liked the stop-motion animation. I don't think I'd have had the patience for it though, XD.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

I read it 2 years ago as part of my pre degree course. I found it hard going, but at the end, you feel you are truly inside the head of that poor woman. Apparently, Perkins Gilman sent a copy of The Yellow Wallpaper to the doctor who was prescribing all of that overt infantalising therapy. He was said to have stopped the procedures on the strength of that story.

I think I would go nutty if I was restrained from doing anything, but most of all reading and writing.

Thanks for stopping by :-)

Re: blake is blake..

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

It is unnerving how she goes from fixating on the wallpaper, to thinking she WAS the woman behind the wallpaper. The transition from worrying about losing her mind to not realising that she has truly lost it, is quite chilling.

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

Oh lor, read that Yellow Wallpaper years ago... and it still haunts me. That is soooooo... oh wow. ooooof.

And Barbauld.. she certainly is dated from her time, but she catches Nature well. Some of her heavier poems are -- heavy!

And a film script. GOSH you've really picked a varied load of work for yourself. EXCELLENT... at least what you do WILL all have a different flavour for each.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

It is chilling, thankfully things have changed a bit since her time. I think if I had been accused of foolishness or being 'a silly goose' on a regular basis, I would go nuts too. Strange that there weren't more incidents of homicide in the Victorian era.