ENG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kate Chopin, The Yellow Wallpaper, List Of Kings Of Arnor

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 110
• Professor: Ruth Panofsky

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Edgar allan poe as a short story originator. Compressed time frame, fewer characters, less developed but still a vivid sense. Narrator is the voice delivering the story tone that shapes the story. Suggests attitudes towards the subject and audience. Difference between the author and the person in the work of art. There are autobiographical elements that shape the story. 1. limited pov targeting one character, doesn"t have access to all info. 2. stream of consciousness continuous thought, inside the character"s head. 3. free indirect discourse like limited pov, that one perspective dominates, but third person narrates in and out of consciousness, so characters thoughts/feelings are filtered through narrator. Doctor of the day weir mitchell who believed that women who were suffer postpartum. One way to quiet hysteria = put to bed, and to be relieved from stress, would bring. Immediacy to the story depression, they called it hysteria them back to a steady emotional state.