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[PREVIEW] Halloween Reading: The Yellow Wallpaper
Duckfeed Presents · Duckfeed Presents
October 31, 20185m 0s
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Show Notes
<html><p>The tradition of Halloween readings continues this year with Kole's reading of <em><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm" target="_blank">The Yellow Wallpaper</a></em>, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.</p><p>It's an early work of feminist literature, and an early psychological horror story. Like <em>Frankenstein</em>, its horror results from the depiction of extreme medical malpractice. Gilman wrote the story to protest the way women's psychological and emotional health were being treated by a chauvinist, male-dominated medical profession.</p><p>The narrator and protagonist of the story is a woman suffering from an unnamed mental illness, and her doctor husband insists that the best treatment is rest therapy. She remains confined in a room covered with hideous yellow wallpaper, and over the course of weeks, she slowly unravels.</p><p>I fell in love with this story when I first read it in college, and I'm excited to share it with anyone who hasn't read it yet.</p><p>The music used in this presentation is from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL948368883CFDF585" target="_blank">the soundtrack to </a><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL948368883CFDF585" target="_blank">Rule of Rose</a></em>, a 2006 survival horror game.</p></html>