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I like the film version of A Doll's House better because I can better understand when I see it on screen or stage. I beleive Nora was motivated to leave her family to find herself explore life. N ora was always under the thumb of her father and Torvald, telling her what she can and can not do. Although I dont beleive she should have left her children, but sometimes you have to do drastic things to fing out what you want to accomplish. the film version depicts the feeling and the tone of the story, when reading it you feel different
A major theme in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is that solitary confinement and exclusion from the public causes madness. The use of images and scenery helps show this theme throughout the narrative and to depict protagonist’s reality. The main character of this story has a “nervous illness, which is intensified by her feeling of being locked within a room” (Gilman, 1994). The scenery of the “huge colonial mansion’ *Gilman, 1994) and the nursery room with barred windows in particular draws a picture of solitude and seclusion experienced by the central character. Jane’s world is limited by the room with yellow wallpapers – the motive of reality is clearly represented in careful depiction of the room with yellow wallpapers. As Jane becomes more distanced from the world and from any source of sensory stimulation, she begins to hallucinate and finally sinks in her madness. The most important technical and stylistic trait of “The Yellow Wallpaper” is Gilman’s combining of the first-person speaker and present-tense narration – this is one more aspect which amplifies ‘sense of reality’ the reader experiences. By letting readers to see only what Jane sees as she sees it, Gilman copies as closely as possible the feelings of entrapment, loneliness, and distorted fantasy that take place in Jane’s life. Jane’s decline into real insanity is so steady and her narrative voice seems so sensible, even when she depicts actions that...

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