Waldorf University Module 3 Lesson 5 The Yellow Wallpaper Question 5

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600 words total (and a short response on monday)

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1. Read this week's assigned texts:

Lesson 5

Naturalism

Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Why I Wrote TYWP” (C842-57)

Norris, “Plea” (C968-71) and “Fantasie Printanière” [see NORRIS Fantaisie Printanière.pdf ]

Crane, “The Open Boat” (C1048-63)

Discussion Question

Analyze "The Yellow Wallpaper" in relation to Gilman's stated purpose for the story in "Why I Wrote..." Does her naturalistic method seem effective to you? Why?

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: STRONG OPENING THESIS (100 words), DEVELOPMENT (500 words), SUPPORT (quotations), OBJECTIVE TONE (No "I" or "we"). MAKE SURE YOU RESPOND TO MY COMMENTS ON THE MONDAY/WEDNESDAY AFTER POSTS ARE DUE.

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Lesson 5 - Naturalism Naturalism (1890-1910) CONTENT Sensational Characters are caricatures of animalistic behaviors Characters are victims of forces beyond their control Critiques capitalism STYLE Social novel (Similar to investigative journalism) Intense, satiric, aggressive EFFECT Dehumanizing; dramatizes loss of free will Shocking, confrontational, disturbing CONTEXT Darwinism & determinism Naturalism, our second major literary period, can be considered a sort of exaggerated type of realism. Whereas James & Howells insisted on authorial objectivity, Sinclair & Norris believed that readers had to be shocked into political awareness as an author investigated some major social issue or problem. Many of these writers were journalists who were nicknamed “muckrackers” for their insistence on addressing impolite subjects. In all three stories, notice how hard it is to sympathsize with characters. With the exception of “Wallpaper,” we are not meant to see these people as emotionally or psychologically complex; for a naturalist, a person’s environment, and not what was inside them, determined their attitude and behavior. (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) Notice, too, that all these characters are defeated by their environment: the wife in “Wallpaper” goes crazy, the couples in “Fantaisie” are vulgar and violent like their neighborhood, and the men in “Boat” are victims of cruel and mocking Nature—stranded at sea, but within sight of land. Remember, there are no heroes or winners in this body of literature. (Recent illustration of “The Yellow Wallpaper”) Finally, ask yourself whether you don’t feel these authors’ “in your face” attitudes. Naturalists consider their audiences too middle-class, too soft and civilized, too complacent; their work is an effort to rip away the veil of middle-class propriety and expose us to the harshness of the world. (Frank Norris) (An illustration from a Frank Norris story called “A Deal in Wheat” that suggests some of the greed naturalists depicted) (Stephen Crane) (This dingy is about the size of the boat Crane and his characters survived in)
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Running head: THE YELLOW WALLPAPER

Yellow Wallpaper
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THE YELLOW WALLPAPER

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The Yellow Wallpaper

The 19th century was an era of great social injustice in the history of humanity. Some
of these injustices practised then were racism, feminism and colonialism. The yellow paper is
a piece of literature shedding light on feminism by advocating for women’s rights in a maledominated era. For literature pieces written in this era to succeed, they must depict
naturalism, a literary style that relies on Darwin's concept of survival and selection for the
natural fit. The yellow wallpaper depicts how effective and efficient naturalism is as a
literature style to draw out the human race from the feminism ill motive (Gilman, 1913).
The effectiveness of n...


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