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

[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.