Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", which she wrote after a severe bout of post-partum depression.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrenched this small literary masterpiece from her own experience. Narrated with superb psychological skill and dramatic precision, it tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child. Isolated in a colonial mansion in the middle of nowhere, forced to sleep in an attic nursery with barred windows and sickly yellow wallpaper, secretly she does what she has to do - she writes. She craves intellectual stimulation, activity, loving understanding, instead she is ordered to her bedroom to rest and 'pull herself together'. Here, slowly but surely, the tortuous pattern of the wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind...
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"I've got out at last," said I, "in shitte of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" Jane是誰呢?
評分原來作者也沒有說是為瞭申揚女權主義。 我覺得很多時候一個人的想法和感受,是很難讓人完全去感受到的。 每個人都知道失戀很難過,也會說要怎麼度過,可是每個人失戀的時候,還是會痛悼死去活來。 事情不是發生在自己身上,是理解不瞭當事人的感受的。 子非魚,焉知魚之樂...
評分"I've got out at last," said I, "in shitte of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" Jane是誰呢?
評分原來作者也沒有說是為瞭申揚女權主義。 我覺得很多時候一個人的想法和感受,是很難讓人完全去感受到的。 每個人都知道失戀很難過,也會說要怎麼度過,可是每個人失戀的時候,還是會痛悼死去活來。 事情不是發生在自己身上,是理解不瞭當事人的感受的。 子非魚,焉知魚之樂...
評分This short story, based upon the author's own experiences, is a powerful tale of one intelligent woman's struggle with madness, the role of (married) women in society and family in the late 1800s, and how she copes with well-meaning but misguided relatives ...
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