Feminism

=Feminism - Progressive Women=



SOCRATIC SEMINAR QUESTIONS

 * 1) Looking at the men in both //[|The Yellow Wallpape]r// and //[|The Story of an Hour,]// how do the authors show that they are ignorant of their own effects on their wives?
 * 2) How would the stories have been different if the husbands gave their accounts of what happened? What themes and activities would they focus on in their telling? Would there be any similarities with the way the women told the stories?
 * 3) Is there any way for women to be happy in this time period? Did they all feel confined the way the the two women in the stories felt? What proof from the stories can you find to support your ideas (Remember, there are other women in the stories besides the main characters)
 * 4) What writing techniques do the authors use to make the endings of their stories so powerful?
 * 5) Even though the women in the stories are confined in their own ways and appear to be weak, what strength do you see in them?

**Choose __//one//__ of the quotes below as your research quote**:
====1) "One may argue that she has gone insane, and subsequently furthered her illness, but I believe Gilman's (the author's) intention is to show her celebration of self" (written by Lori Voth) ====

====2) "Gilman wrote The Yellow Wallpaper following a fit of insanity, and it was her own insanity she chose to romanticize rather than choosing to write about the confinement of women at the time. (written by Todd Nelson) ====

====**You can use this as your source quote from The Yellow Wallpaper or you can look for your own here: **==== ==== "I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!" Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time! ====