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

[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.

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