Analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper, The Birthmark, and The Goose Girl

There have been sundry(a) analysis base on these three stories and the characters involved The chickenhearted Wall topic, The Birthmark, and The Goose Girl. This paper will focus on analysis based on metaphoric languages used either consciously or unconsciously, the passivity of the characters, motivations, role performed in the story, and the agendas used by the various authors. The point of this analysis is to show how various authors have used short stories to give the world a different message that can be spun in many different directions. The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman who specialized in poetry, short stories and social reform. Jane in The Yellow Wallpaper is a hands-off character that shows her passivity in a quite distinct manner. gibe to a quote from a critic of this short story, Visible the captive will constantly have before his eyes the tall chalk out of the primaeval tower from which he is spied upon. Unverifiable th e prisoner must neer know whether he is being looked at any one min but he must be sure that he whitethorn always be so. The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the canvas/being seen distich in the peripheric ring, one is totally seen, without ever seeing in the central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen (Michel Foucault, 1979). This shows that the house where Jane lives in would be considered to be a Prison whereby the prisoners can be observed but they cannot see their observers. He called this method of observation Panopticon (Michel Foucault, 1979). This method regulated the prisoners behavior at all times and in this story, it regulated Janes behavior so she was used to taking orders.In addition, this critic also describes the narr... ...unk. The Birthmark. Literature and the constitution Process. Upper Saddle River, NJ Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007. 206-17. Print.Sperry, Lori B., and Liz Grauerholz. The Pervasiveness and Persistence of the Feminine pe ach Ideal in Childrens Fairy Tales. Gender and Society 17.5 (2003) 711-26. JSTOR. Web. 4 July 2015.Suess, Barbara A. The Writings on the Wall Symbolic Orders in The Yellow Wallpaper. Womens Studies 32.1 (2003) 79. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 31 July 2015.SurLaLune Fairy Tales Annotations for Goose Girl. SurLaLune Fairy Tales Annotated Fairy Tales, Fairy Tale Books and Illustrations. Web. 05 July 2015.Wang, Lin-lin. Freed or Destroyed--A Study on The Yellow Wallpaper from the Perspective of Foucauldian Panopticism. US-China remote Language 5.3 (2007) 52-57. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 31 July 2015.