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0:00[music]
0:05[music]
0:19Good morning everybody. Can you hear me?
0:27>> Good morning ma'am. We can hear you.
0:29Okay, thank you.
0:32We'll start the session and let me share
0:35my screen before I start the session.
0:41Do you see my screen?
0:45>> Yes ma'am.
0:46>> Okay, thank you.
0:50We'll start in 2 minutes.
1:05Good morning once again.
1:08Hope you all are ready for the session.
1:13Today I'm planning to discuss the short
1:16story The Yellow Wallpaper.
1:20As you see here,
1:22the author is Charlotte Perkins Chinman
1:27and it's the yellow wallpaper. The title
1:30of the show story is the yellow
1:32wallpaper.
1:34Before I begin,
1:37can I ask this question? Can I ask some
1:39volunteers to tell me
1:44uh in brief what this story is about?
1:52a volunteer please.
1:58Oh, what is the plot of the story?
2:20There are no volunteers.
2:37Hello. Can you hear me?
2:43Hello. Can you hear me? We can hear you,
2:45man. Yes. No volunteers.
2:53>> Okay. Shall I ask this question? Have
2:56you read this? Have you read the story?
2:59>> Yes, ma'am.
3:02>> You don't like to uh recall the plot?
3:05Any volunteers or the one who is
3:07answering me?
3:29Okay. Uh
3:34you see the image here.
3:35>> Uh it's about a young woman who is
3:38suffering from mental illness like
3:40story.
3:42>> Go ahead please. Thank you. Go ahead.
3:46>> Yeah. That's a story about her husband,
3:49a doctor who looks for in a womb to
3:52waste.
3:52>> You're right. Okay. Anything else to be
3:55added?
3:57>> Uh it's like uh the woman's going uh
4:01through a postpartum dis depressions
4:03after giving birth.
4:05>> Mhm. Okay.
4:08Thank you.
4:13>> Okay. Thank you. So this is the author
4:17Charlotte Perkins Steman. She's an
4:20American author.
4:22She's considered
4:25You see my new screen as well, right? Am
4:28I right?
4:29>> Yeah. Yeah.
4:30>> Yes, ma'am.
4:30>> Okay.
4:31uh she's a feminist considered to be a
4:34feminist later on and a social logist
4:38and she has written novels as well.
4:42Most importantly, please note the time
4:46that she was alive. So she was born in
4:501860 and died in 1935.
4:54So when you know the era just to get a
4:57rough idea about the era. So this is
5:001935 means
5:03is it before the second world war or
5:06after the second world war
5:13just to get a rough idea about the
5:15background is it the world war uh period
5:18or before the world war the second
5:30Yes.
5:32When was this happen?
5:35It's I think uh during the vero
5:48can you please check whether like the uh
5:52whether it is the during the world war
5:55or the before
5:57just
6:03>> before madam was before the world war.
6:06>> Yes, it's before the second war.
6:08>> World War.
6:10>> Yes. So I'm just giving you this has
6:12nothing to do with the world war but the
6:14the background world war is something
6:17which has affected the entire world and
6:20literature and we can get a rough idea
6:22about the the era the time period of
6:26this author. So this was she died even
6:29before the second world war right. The
6:32second world war started in 1939.
6:361939.
6:38So she died in
6:411935.
6:43Okay.
6:55Before I move on, I will ask another
6:57question.
6:58I'm sure that you would answer this
7:00question.
7:02What do you understand? If you do not
7:05know, please search and let me know.
7:07I'll give you about 2 3 minutes.
7:11Rest.
7:14Do you know what is meant by rest?
7:18I'll give you about 2 3 minutes.
7:31Madam, in this story, uh the woman is in
7:35a isolated place. Because of that, she's
7:38suffering from some some kind of mental
7:40illness. Even though her husband is a
7:44psychiatrist, he didn't understand about
7:46her wife situation.
7:49>> Okay. You are answering my earlier
7:52question. Thank you.
7:55>> Rescue means that is a medical. No
7:57madam, this is a medical treatment. Uh
8:00the one is uh in a isolated place and
8:04giving a treatment.
8:07Okay. The rest is that. Okay. Any other
8:10answers please?
8:12resting and uh isolation and calm the
8:16nervous.
8:19>> Okay. Any further ideas about the term?
8:23>> It is a 19th century medical treatment
8:25that uh prescribe for total physical and
8:28mental inactivity.
8:32>> Okay.
8:33Yes. In which year?
8:37>> 19th century.
8:38>> 19th century.
8:39>> 19th century. 18th century. Yes. Okay.
8:4219th century. So look at the time that
8:45she died.
8:471935.
8:49So when you say 1935, that means is it
8:52the 19th century or the 20th century?
8:58When we say 1935, is it the 20th century
9:02or the 19th century?
9:04>> 20th century.
9:05>> 19th century.
9:06>> 20th century. It's not the 19th century.
9:08I heard that someone was answering as
9:1119th century. No, 1935 means 20th
9:15century. 1860 is 19th century.
9:221860 means 19th century. 1935 means
9:2720th century, right? Okay. Yes, you're
9:31right.
9:33So rest cure
9:36is a period
9:40spent in inactivity.
9:43Inactivity, no activity.
9:46It's a period in period spent in
9:49inactivity
9:50or leisure
9:53with the intention of improving
9:56one's physical or mental health.
10:01So this is the simple definition of the
10:03word prescue. It could be for the
10:06physical health or the mental health. As
10:10the other speaker, the student answered
10:13yes, this was introduced
10:15and practice in a particular era. Okay,
10:20look at this. I've given here the
10:22details. Just read this to yourself just
10:25by taking about 1 minute, 2 minutes.
10:39You see the person who introduced this
10:43particular type of treatment
10:46silas where
10:49developed the rescue treatment in the
10:51late
10:5380s 19th century for the treatment of
10:56some illnesses especially such as
10:59hysteria and nervous illnesses. Hysteria
11:03is something related to mental capacity
11:07and uh often in society
11:10this was prescribed not for women but
11:13for men
11:15and u this period
11:18sometimes
11:21last
11:22up to 8 weeks that means 2 months
11:27and uh sometime this is uh
11:30so strict
11:32That isolation is
11:35so strict and the so-called patient is
11:38not allowed even to meet the friends,
11:42even to talk,
11:45to read, read books or to write anything
11:50or even very simple things like sewing
11:55not with the sewing machine but you know
11:58uh uh with the fingers and etc.
12:02So those things are also not allowed.
12:05And um
12:07note my next point
12:11Charlotte
12:15and Virginia Wolf if you have heard of
12:17this person Virginia Wolf
12:21are two actual examples who have
12:25undergone
12:27this treatment called restcure in their
12:30lives.
12:31So our author
12:33has undergone this uh treatment
12:36and I have just mentioned another author
12:39as another person a well-known person.
12:42Have you ever heard of a person called
12:44Virginia Wolf?
12:49Yes or no?
12:50>> Yes.
12:52>> Okay. Have you ever heard of a person
12:54called Leonard Wolf?
12:56>> Yes, madam.
12:58Who is Lard Wolf?
13:01Who is Leard?
13:03>> He is the author of uh the novel Village
13:06by the Jungle.
13:10>> Village in the Jungle.
13:12>> Village in the Jungle. Yes. And Virginia
13:15Wolf is You're right. Virginia Wolf is
13:19Leonard Wolf's wife.
13:22Right. a well-known author, a poet,
13:26novelist, a feminist
13:29and an writer, a political thinker.
13:33>> Exactly. And Virginia Wolf also has
13:37undergone this medical treatment just
13:40for your information and background
13:42information. But it is very important to
13:45note our author has undergone this
13:48treatment
13:50and it is mentioned in the documents
13:53they both our author as well as Virginia
13:56Wolf have reacted fiercely against this
14:00treatment. They were thoroughly against
14:03reacted against this treatment rescue
14:07the isolation
14:10from the
14:12other people.
14:18So according to feminist view weaves,
14:21the rescue reinforces an oppressive
14:24notion that women should unquestioningly
14:30yield and surrender to male authority.
14:34For the feminist
14:36ideas,
14:38for the feminist
14:40rescue
14:42is something that they have to the women
14:46have to undergo and surrender to male
14:49authority.
14:52This is how the feminist have seen it.
14:56Right. Okay.
14:59And uh
15:03now I would ask another question.
15:06Do you know what is meant by I'm sure
15:09that some of you mentioned about this
15:11also. What is meant by postpartum
15:14depression?
15:17Postpartum depression. Can volunteer
15:20tell me what this is please.
15:22>> It's a severe and rare mental illness
15:25that happens after child birth.
15:28Okay, go ahead please if you have any
15:32other information.
15:36>> Uh madam this can be happen during the
15:39pregnancy or after giving birth to the
15:42child
15:44sadness loss of interest
15:47like that.
15:49>> M okay
15:51go ahead please. Any other volunteers?
15:56It's about uh this is a depression that
16:00can happen after giving birth. Uh and uh
16:04in simple uh many mothers experience as
16:08anxiety, fear,
16:11loss of interest
16:13and they feel extreme tiredness,
16:17difficulty in concentrating on baby and
16:19the family members
16:21and they often feel hopeless.
16:26Okay.
16:28Some may overcome this within one or two
16:31months but some suffer for for a very
16:34long time.
16:35>> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Good. Uh now
16:39shall I ask another uh different
16:42question really do you think that this
16:45has been uh identified in Sri Lankan
16:49society or is it ignored in Sri Lankan
16:51society?
16:54I mean
16:56it's
16:58>> identified now
17:00>> only now.
17:02>> Yeah.
17:04>> I don't think
17:06>> okay even now do you think it's commonly
17:09identified? Do people even know about
17:11these things? Not not all not in rural
17:15or other areas but in
17:19>> in suburbs I mean in this society some
17:23some have some sort of a discussion
17:27about the postpartum depression but not
17:30the majority. Yeah, majority it's it's
17:33unknown.
17:34>> It's unknown or it's ignored or the the
17:37woman might have suffered it
17:40>> might suffer it in isolation without
17:42knowing this. Yes,
17:44>> this is for your information.
17:47>> Okay.
17:49>> Uh excuse madam.
17:51>> Yes.
17:52>> Uh I think uh in another view I have
17:54another view. Uh this this illness
17:57usually happen to men. No madam. So when
18:01a husband uh while during while take a
18:06rescue uh as a as a spouse mean wife uh
18:11mentally she affected from uh what
18:16economy and the physical support from
18:19the husband. So postpartum depression
18:22mean uh earlier our friends said I I
18:26thought that is something different uh
18:28that also uh some depression can happen
18:32in ladies in in a meaning in a inner uh
18:37mentality.
18:40>> So you mean to say this happens to men?
18:43No no no women women postpartum
18:46depression the earlier our friend said
18:48after having a pregnancy like that no
18:54not only that the mental it mean when
18:57spouse in a rescue while they are in bed
19:00rest uh the women usually women they
19:05have to affected from economy and the
19:08family problem. So uh that also uh some
19:12mental mental problem she has to uh she
19:14has to face. No ma'am. So I thought in
19:17another view postpartum depression mean
19:20uh uh that that is the uh fact I think
19:24like that.
19:26>> But uh the word postpartum itself
19:30refers to the things which happens uh
19:34which is related to delivery
19:37uh delivery. Therefore uh it's uh it's
19:41the it's the period related to the
19:44delivery really child birth or the
19:46period related to the delivery.
19:48Therefore it has to be something in
19:51relation to that. Okay. Anyway, thank
19:52you for your weave.
19:56Uh
19:58so postpartum you know post post means
20:01after part means it's like it refers to
20:04the word delivery. It's a complex mix of
20:08physical, emotional, behavioral changes
20:12that happen in some women after giving
20:15birth. And some may overcome it
20:17naturally, some may not overcome it
20:20naturally. It it's a it's a change
20:24really. You know, delivery means a
20:26change. It's a it's a physical change,
20:29biological change, emotional change, and
20:32behavioral change.
20:34And um so it's it's based on this
20:38postpartum depression. Okay. And uh now
20:42we'll move on to the the story. Read
20:46this to yourself first and then we will
20:49talk about this. See what I have written
20:51here.
21:02Okay. So the narrator of this story is
21:06uh a young upper middleclass woman and
21:09she's a mother
21:12and uh she's uh we see that she's
21:16undergoing as it is mentioned the
21:19treatment for depression that is rest
21:21cure.
21:24We also see this narrator is very
21:26imaginative
21:28and
21:30we read the readers read the story
21:34through her diary.
21:37So we are reading her diary. That is the
21:40important uh narrative technique in this
21:44show story. The story is told in the
21:47form of a secret diary.
21:50It's a diary that she has maintained
21:54or she maintains secretly
21:57and she records all her thoughts
22:02she records all her thoughts
22:05and uh while being in a restricted while
22:11being in a room
22:13in isolation. So I told you in order to
22:17understand this you need to understand
22:19the treatment the rescue how it is
22:22considered during that time.
22:24Please also know the rescue was uh no
22:28more prescribed after that really after
22:30a particular period really
22:33right. So this was this happened there
22:36in during that time and as I told you
22:39the author herself has undergone
22:43uh this treatment in her life as well
22:47right
22:49clear is it clear to you?
22:53>> Yes ma'am.
22:54>> Yes. So we are reading her her her
22:57records really her thoughts her thoughts
23:00are presented to us
23:03in a diary and why do you think that she
23:06has maintained this secretly
23:10so you know usually a diary is a is it a
23:13highly a personal one I mean do we
23:16maintain diaries for our maintain
23:18personal stuff yes it's highly a I mean
23:22we have official diaries as well but
23:24this is a personal diary and she has
23:27maintained it secretly. Can you guess
23:30why she has maintained or she has
23:32recorded it secretly?
23:34>> Uh because the treatment that she gets
23:38>> and that of course as I told you that
23:40prohibits even sometimes writing
23:43>> prohibited to write something else
23:45that's why she kept it as a secret
23:47thing. Yes, that is why as I told you
23:49sometimes patients are prohibited from
23:52talking, reading,
23:55writing even so
23:58that is why she has maintained it in a
24:00secret manner. And we see this narrator
24:04and we see the John that is the
24:07narrator's husband.
24:10So John plays two roles.
24:13The two roles are the two roles in
24:16relation to the narrator. One is the the
24:19role of the narrator or sorry role of
24:22the husband.
24:24The other one is it is her doctor as
24:27well her physician. So the it is the man
24:30who prescribes is the husband who
24:33prescribes this treatment
24:36right and who restricts her behavior as
24:40part of her treatment.
24:42And it is mentioned sometimes in the
24:45book as well.
24:47John is practical and he prefers facts
24:50and figures to fancy
24:53fancy.
24:56He seems to love his wife.
24:59I have uh written it as the seems. So
25:02you can question this after reading
25:04this. You can question he seems to love
25:08his wife. whether he loves his wife or
25:11he seems to love his wife but he does
25:14not understand the negative effect of
25:18his treatment
25:20on her.
25:23So this is the simple summary of this
25:27and we will move on.
25:32Okay, let's read this as well. It was
25:35written in 1892.
25:39So you remember rescue was introduced
25:43in the late 180 late 19th century. So
25:48the story was written in the 19 1892
25:52first person narration. It's a first
25:55person narration because we read the
25:57diary Jane
26:00and John is a physician who has
26:02diagnosed her as having slight
26:06historical tendency.
26:09Slight historical tendency.
26:12So John has noticed
26:14Joan himself as a husband. Remember the
26:17dual role that he practices
26:21doctor as well as the the husband. He
26:25was the one who has diagnosed that the
26:28wife has slight
26:31this quotation that I have taken from
26:33the book. Slight historical tense.
26:38So the narr is important.
26:42The narrator is confined to room and not
26:44allowed to do anything for herself
26:47and uh the narration takes the form of
26:50secret diary entries
26:53recorded by James
26:57and uh it avoids work.
27:00avoids any social interaction.
27:05And uh those who have read the book,
27:09read the story, is she allowed to
27:13uh
27:14take the baby?
27:17>> No ma'am.
27:18>> No. So you see even the baby is not
27:21given to her.
27:24So all the decisions are taken by the
27:26man by the person who acts the dual role
27:31husband's role as well as the uh the the
27:36doctor's role or the physician's role.
27:40His main medical advice avoid work
27:43activity social interactions.
27:46So she's isolated no talking. She could
27:50not see anybody.
27:52And uh anything that stimulates,
27:58anything that stimulates should be
28:00avoided.
28:07And she has he has even stopped
28:11prohibited her right into right.
28:20uh
28:22and uh we will move on to the story
28:26after reading this bit too. Read this as
28:29well to yourself first.
29:36Okay. As you see here, you need to pay
29:39your attention to some of these words.
29:41One is captivity.
29:44Captivity.
29:46So, you know that even in a prison, we
29:48say captivity. They are in captivity.
29:51So, that means lack of freedom. These
29:54are some of the questions, some of the
29:56concerns that you need to question when
30:00you read the book. And uh and as I told
30:05you at the very beginning,
30:07at the beginning the the woman is
30:10diagnosed the husband has husband whom
30:12the doctor physician
30:15has diagnosed her with
30:19slight hysterical tendencies.
30:22But those who have read the book, you
30:23may know that
30:27he ends up in a in a status where she is
30:32in a mentally broke up status, right?
30:36And as I told you earlier, it's a first
30:40person narration and diary entries are
30:43maintained.
30:45We are forbidden for her
30:48and uh
30:52and we therefore we can say that how
30:55gender issues are introduced through the
31:00story.
31:02When I introduce you the the author also
31:06I told you this author is a feminist.
31:09She herself has undergone
31:12the rescue in her life as well. So in
31:16the story we see that this gives some
31:19concerns
31:21related to gender gender issues and
31:27so whether it is a misdiagnosis
31:31or else who has prescribed this press
31:35cure who takes decisions
31:38all those things are questions that you
31:40need to uh explore through the story.
31:51So you see that uh you see here like in
31:55this image as well
31:57uh there are papers wallpapers inside
32:01the room. What she sees is the
32:03wallpaper,
32:06right? She sees the wallpaper
32:09and
32:11no contact.
32:13Even the husband doesn't
32:18talk to her often.
32:21So she sees the wallpaper and she starts
32:27talking and developing
32:32[cough]
32:33a communication type of communication
32:35with the wallpaper
32:39and u ultimately
32:42she notices a woman figure
32:45appearing through the wallpaper.
32:49This is the simple story,
32:52right? She's isolated. Then she she's
32:57she sees this woman figure.
33:08She sees hallucinations of a woman who
33:11lives in the wallpaper.
33:14You see that uh
33:17light image as well.
33:21And ultimately she does break the grip
33:24of her husband's control over her
33:28she gets certain kind of this narrator
33:31power.
33:34So she does she does break the grip of
33:37her husband grip of her husband.
33:42So this suggests the control
33:46in the institute of marriage especially
33:49in that era
33:53how this was prescribed by the husband
33:56plus the physician
33:59and uh and it says in the story I have
34:02got out at last
34:06right so this
34:09and uh so this may
34:12influenced by the author's
34:16personal postpartum depression.
34:19So many would say that uh author's post
34:24postpartum dictation experiences of a
34:27postpartum dutition
34:30is in a way
34:33fictionalized in the show story in the
34:35yellow wallpaper. So in a way this is a
34:38semi-autobiographical
34:42narration.
34:48Okay, read this as well. Some of the
34:51ideas and symbols that you have to
34:53identify when you read the story.
35:51So this is another image really that I
35:53have taken and
35:56bought. So you see through the wallpaper
35:59an image an image of a female image
36:02appears in her mind
36:05right this a type of hallucination.
36:08And uh so in the story we can talk about
36:14the definitions of love, care and
36:17empathy.
36:19Empathy means understanding the other
36:21person
36:23thoughts
36:26and power or subordinate positions
36:29or one can use one's power or one can be
36:32a subordinate or the secondary person.
36:37Do women have any voice to raise
36:43any any power to raise their
36:47uh ideas,
36:50right? This woman here may not be happy
36:54about it, but is there any chance for
36:59the for her to raise them? And also this
37:02is also about the criticism about risk
37:06treatment.
37:07As I told you earlier also,
37:11although it was introduced and it was
37:13prescribed for a for a certain period
37:18in a particular period in the western
37:20world.
37:21Uh
37:24people have identified later the
37:29you know the weaknesses of it and it is
37:34not prescribed now.
37:36Right. So this is postpartum psychosis.
37:41Uh and we can also talk and look at the
37:45women's position in the institute of
37:48marriage.
37:50And uh we also can talk about male
37:54hegemonic ideas.
37:57How males can take power all the
38:00decisions
38:03the control in
38:07who
38:11and on the other hand we also can read
38:14this as a metaphorical
38:19rebellion.
38:21Metaphorical rebellion or else rise of
38:24feminism metaphorical rebellion. When we
38:28read the book story we can answer it's
38:31not a physical rebellion
38:35literal rebellion but a metaphorical
38:37rebellion. So she those who have read
38:40the story at the end that you know what
38:43happened in the end what happens in the
38:45end.
38:47So through wallpaper is the author
38:50uh trying to
38:53vocalize
38:55the suppressed emotions of the of women
39:00vocalize.
39:02So it is a symbol of the suppressed
39:07thoughts gaining power.
39:11So that is why I have used the word
39:13called subolan boys as well. Do you know
39:16the meaning of the words?
39:21Hello.
39:28Hello. Can someone tell me the meaning
39:30of the word subter voice? Hear the last
39:34not the third point from the last.
39:40Can someone check then? Can you all
39:42check and let me know?
39:55Hello there.
39:56>> Uh, subultan means a person or a group
39:59of lower rank status or positions.
40:03>> Okay, that is one meaning of the word
40:05subolan. You're right. Subolton. You see
40:09that uh in army sometimes in the army
40:12staff we have the subolan position that
40:16means the someone who is who is having
40:18the secondary military position.
40:21Subolton position that is one meaning of
40:24the word subolan you are right. Can you
40:27check another meaning?
40:28>> Uh it has a less influence on others.
40:32>> Sorry little less in less influence on
40:36others.
40:38Mhm. Explain please.
40:40>> Yeah. That means uh he or she can't
40:43influence on others ideas and uh like
40:46that he can't he or she can't control
40:49others.
40:50>> Uh-huh. Okay. Okay.
40:52>> I talking about the authority
40:56controlling. Yes. Control
40:59>> someone who is oppressed
41:02>> and marginalized.
41:04>> Okay.
41:09Okay. But
41:09>> their voices are ignored by the other
41:12people.
41:13>> Yes. Yes. Now you are to the point
41:15really. Okay. You are coming to the
41:17point. Subolton
41:19dictionary as I told you will have other
41:21meanings as well. Usually this started
41:25with the word like military officers who
41:27are secondary who are in the secondary
41:30ranks. Subolton. But our reference is
41:33something else here. Subolan. We say
41:36even in the feminist world we say
41:40uh females have the subolt. They are the
41:43subol because they don't have the power
41:45to uh raise their voices. They are
41:48always
41:50having the secondary positions in
41:52society.
41:54So according to feminist they also then
41:57they don't have any voice any power any
42:00power to raise their voice.
42:03uh so they are the they are the
42:05secondary individuals
42:08in any institute in any office in
42:10society in the in the institute of
42:14marriage.
42:16So this book also in a uh short story in
42:21a way talks about how sabolan people
42:25will get the voice. People use this word
42:28sabolton in different ways. I hope you
42:31got a very uh at least a brief idea
42:34about the words about them here. Did you
42:36get an idea?
42:39>> Yes ma'am.
42:41>> Okay. Those who do not have the voice in
42:43the sense those who do not have the
42:45power. So often this is associated with
42:48women. Women in society. So how this
42:52power is associated with women in a
42:55metaphorical manner through the story.
42:58Okay. Now let me uh share the story. We
43:04will engage in a reading of the story. I
43:07will stop sharing this PowerPoint
43:09presentation. I'll share the story.
43:31Do you see my screen?
43:35>> Yes.
43:38>> Okay.
43:43Uh tell me something important from this
43:46section. I'll give you about five
43:48minutes.
44:28Please be ready to talk.
45:49Yeah. Come on. Can you all talk
45:52one by one? Real not everybody. Yes.
45:59Can you tell me something that you could
46:02gather from this sections?
46:07>> Uh, it's a haunted house.
46:10>> Okay. It's a haunted house.
46:12>> Yeah. And John laughed at me.
46:17>> Okay.
46:18>> John is practical in this dream.
46:22>> Practical in the sense what?
46:24>> Yeah. That means uh she think that he's
46:28practical actually uh the husband can't
46:31understand his decision
46:34illness. Well,
46:36>> the treatment is not suitable to her.
46:39Uh-huh. Okay. Okay.
46:42Uh-huh. Okay. Go ahead, please. Any
46:45other volunteers as well? Good. Okay.
46:53Any other volunteers?
47:06Uh they have uh actually enter uh rented
47:09a large uh it's a country house.
47:13Uh the haunting words
47:16uh describe that she doesn't like it
47:21>> and uh it also say her husband is a
47:23doctor
47:25and u
47:29>> she has the authority
47:31actually Joan has the authority full
47:33authority in their relationship
47:36and uh she is already emotionally and
47:39mentally troubled.
47:44Okay, thank you. Any other volunteers,
47:46please? Yes, you're right.
47:48>> Uh I think that the husband is being too
47:51judgmental at the things. I mean like
47:53he's thinking that he knows everything.
47:56So he doesn't try to accept what it is
47:59or maybe to try to understand what's
48:01going on here really. And here even
48:05though it says like the haunted house
48:06that she says like I would say a haunted
48:09house a rich child of romantic. So it
48:12does mean sometimes that the narrator
48:14herself also knows that it's not that
48:16that that kind of a haunted house but
48:18it's the agony that happens in her mind.
48:22So that is been revealed to her.
48:25>> Okay. Okay.
48:27Good. Okay. Any other any other
48:30volunteers?
48:41Yeah.
48:58It's like mental reflection of a cheese
49:02feeling inside.
49:06>> Could you please repeat? Like here she
49:09says he uh John does not like to speak
49:13about anything superstition and
49:15answering but it's actually like
49:19he's going to like revolutions and stuff
49:22but he's not taking and patient enough
49:25to listen to her.
49:28>> Okay. Thank you. Okay. All you all are
49:30all are right. Right. Good that you
49:34uh read it in that way. This is how you
49:36would engage in close reading. Okay. I
49:39will also tell you some other points.
49:42You're right. You have noted the fact
49:44that this is a haunted house.
49:47So now
49:49I'm now just giving you some other
49:51thoughts really when you read it through
49:54a feminist angle. Now if this is rest
49:58cure,
50:00if this this should really soothes the
50:04so-called patient,
50:07the patient should be happy about the
50:08place,
50:11right? But the patient or so-called
50:13patient if she is a patient, the patient
50:16herself sees that this is a this is like
50:18a haunted place, right? Also, please
50:22note that uh
50:26still I she says that she notices
50:29there's something queer about it.
50:32Something strange about this house,
50:36this isolated house. Something queer.
50:41Something strange.
50:43And also
50:49so she asked this question
50:52why should it be let so cheaply?
50:57This is an interesting thing.
51:00So this doctor
51:02with the intention of
51:05the intention is to treat the so-called
51:08give the so-called treatment to the
51:10wife. But
51:13look at the word. What does this
51:16indicate?
51:19So these are some of the questions. It's
51:21a haunted place. It's a very queer
51:24place. Very queer.
51:27Something queer. And
51:30It's cheap.
51:32It is given in a very it's it's rented
51:35out for a cheap price,
51:40right?
51:42And why have stood and why have stood so
51:46long untented?
51:49No one had lived there for a long time.
51:52The house has not been given out on rent
51:55for a long time.
51:57So these are some of the questions which
51:59are raised in this woman's mind
52:03but they are not expressed.
52:07She has not been consulted.
52:11So now you should be able to understand
52:13that the term called subolan voice as
52:16well her voice her her thoughts her
52:20feelings her desires are not consulted
52:24right and uh on top of that look at this
52:28as well laughs at me
52:34don't laughs at me
52:38I hope you know the difference between
52:40laughing me and laugh at me. Hello.
52:46Hello. Do you know that?
52:48>> Yes.
52:49>> Yes, ma'am.
52:50>> So like, so what is the intention then?
52:54June laughs at me. So this is at least
52:57the patient thinks. But one expect that
53:01in marriage,
53:04one expect that in marriage.
53:07Joan is practical in the extreme. He
53:10thinks of the money practical.
53:13He thinks of a land or the house which
53:15had not been uh long uh it's it's a
53:20untened house for a long time. A queer a
53:23square queer house
53:25in a hereditary state,
53:30right? And he has no patience with
53:33faith. No patience with faith. No
53:36patience.
53:39So that's why I told you now he is
53:41playing a dual role in the sense the
53:44husband's role as well as the doctor's
53:46role. No patience. No patience with the
53:50so-called patient
53:53and he scuffs openly at any talk of
53:56things not to be felt and seen and put
53:58down in figures.
54:01So John is a physician and perhaps
54:08Okay, before that please note and we see
54:11that we are reading
54:13now look at this one still I will
54:17I would proudly declare that there's
54:19something so the first person narration
54:22we are reading her diary right and Joan
54:26is a fishian and perhaps this is
54:29highlighted as well in the story
54:33perhaps within brackets the author says
54:35is I would not say it to a living soul
54:40but this is a dead paper. It's a dead
54:43paper. This is my diary.
54:46I would not tell it to anybody. I would
54:48not express this to anybody
54:51except with my diary and a grief relief
54:54and a and a great relief to my mind. So
54:58this writing is the relief to my mind.
55:02writing is the relief to my mind because
55:05I express I cannot express these things
55:08with any any living person.
55:12Right? So you see how important this
55:14diary is. So how important to the chance
55:18for her to pour her heart out through
55:21the words at least in the diary form.
55:25So John is a physician and uh and
55:28perhaps
55:30perhaps that is one reason I do not get
55:34well faster.
55:36Look at this one.
55:38John is a physician and perhaps that is
55:42one reason I do not get well fast.
55:46So that is because he's playing that
55:48other role as well. You see he does not
55:51believe I am sick and what can I do?
55:56What can one do? Okay. Now you see this
56:00is how you are supposed to read this.
56:02Engage in each and every word
56:05and uh engage in a critical reading of
56:08this. Right? Okay. We'll read some other
56:11points as well. Not everything. I want
56:14you all to read this.
56:18Uh yes. And tell me something.
56:22uh
56:25something important
56:28important lines from this trailer. You
56:30have the book I believe in you with you.
56:34Yes, this page. I'll give you about 5
56:38minutes.
57:34speak when you're ready.
57:55Yes. Can you tell me any important
57:58points that you have noted?
58:09Are you reading it for the first time
58:11now?
58:17>> Uh madam. Uh absolutely. Uh I am
58:20prohibited to work until I get well.
58:24>> Mhm. Okay.
58:25>> Yeah. Uh there is a delicious garden. I
58:28never saw such a garden large and shady.
58:31Even though the garden is nice and
58:34beautiful, she's prohibited to go out of
58:36the house.
58:37>> Okay. Okay. Those are her thoughts.
58:40Okay. Thank you. Good. Okay. Any other
58:42point?
58:43>> I don't like Roma a bit. Uh and I have
58:46scheduled prescription for each hour in
58:48the day. Uh it shows that captivity
58:52and male shinistic society.
58:56>> Okay. Yes, you're right. Yes. So
58:58everything is scheduled. Yes. Very
58:59strict schedule. Okay. Thank you. Any
59:03other points? Good.
59:05Uh madam her brother is also a physician
59:08and also uh she know that uh if she do
59:12something uh uh she can get um
59:17what you call she can get uh cure um in
59:23the sense that uh if she do uh works and
59:26uh uh excitement things she can get
59:30better even faster. She says that
59:33>> that's how she thinks right these are
59:35her thoughts right please always note
59:37these are her thoughts you are reading
59:39her thoughts which are not being never
59:41ever been expressed so these are the
59:44thoughts of a in a inner thoughts of a
59:47person who is uh in isolation yes okay
59:52good any other ideas any other
59:56>> ma'am uh goes like I get unreasonably
1:00:00angry with Joan sometimes times I'm sure
1:00:03I never used to be sensitive and I think
1:00:05it's due to this nervousness kind so she
1:00:07kind of understand what's going on there
1:00:09but on the other hand like when says
1:00:12John says if I'm I feel so I shall not
1:00:14neglect proper self-control
1:00:17so I take plans of to control myself
1:00:20before him at least that makes me very
1:00:23tired so this is kind of I think that
1:00:26the narrator here she understands what's
1:00:29going on through her but on the other
1:00:32hand that misjudging of like thinking
1:00:36that Joan her husband knows something
1:00:39more than that. So unfortunately that he
1:00:42also cannot understand what's going on
1:00:44really.
1:00:46>> Yes, you're right. So it's like a it's
1:00:49like uh her thoughts it's like floating
1:00:51her thoughts are being like they they're
1:00:54going here and there like we see the so
1:00:56what is really really interesting here
1:00:59is we are reading the inner thoughts
1:01:01which had never ever been expressed
1:01:03really and these thoughts are not very
1:01:07stable really right and uh and you see
1:01:11that uh you also should note really when
1:01:14you read the story next time.
1:01:17You should note how her thoughts are
1:01:20being changed towards the entry. How her
1:01:23thoughts are being changed, right? And
1:01:27ultimately to uh to see and develop a
1:01:31communication with the with the figure
1:01:34figure that she has noted in the
1:01:36wallpaper as well, right? And yes, good.
1:01:40Any other ideas? Any other places you
1:01:42have noted? Uh madam here her husband
1:01:45and brother both both of them are
1:01:48physician. It shows that uh she belongs
1:01:50to upper middle class society. Social
1:01:54background is there. It shows the social
1:01:56background in from this story.
1:01:58>> Okay you're right. Yes, that's uh yeah
1:02:02they they are physicians and that is why
1:02:04they have they are they were capable in
1:02:07buying and I mean taking this house
1:02:10right but uh but the but they took the
1:02:12very cheapest one according to her
1:02:15cheapest house uh etc. Yes. Yeah. Okay.
1:02:19Good. Any other ideas?
1:02:30Okay, look at this line. If a physician,
1:02:39if a physician of high standing and
1:02:41one's own husband assures friends and
1:02:44relatives that there's really nothing
1:02:47the matter with one but temporary
1:02:49nervous depression, a slight hysterical
1:02:53tendency. What is one to do right? And
1:02:56this is what I quoted earlier as well.
1:03:00A slight
1:03:02historical. This is how it has been
1:03:05recognized or diagnosed. Uh
1:03:11and uh
1:03:15personally I believe
1:03:18that work with excitement and change
1:03:20would heal me. this is what uh she
1:03:24believes in as a as a woman and also
1:03:30uh
1:03:36I sometimes fancy that in my condition
1:03:40if I had less opposition
1:03:43if I had less opposition and more
1:03:46society and stimulus. So these are her
1:03:49thought. This is what she believes in a
1:03:51way. So stimulus,
1:03:54less opposition
1:03:57and some society,
1:04:03right?
1:04:05And I confess it always makes me feel
1:04:08bad. I confess it makes me bad. So I
1:04:12will let it alone and talk about the
1:04:14house and uh
1:04:27now look at this one about the place.
1:04:30So this
1:04:32on the one hand shows about the
1:04:34practicality of the husband. on the
1:04:37other hand these questions that the real
1:04:40concern
1:04:43towards the wife as well right real
1:04:46concern okay I mean the author does not
1:04:49give any fixed answers
1:04:53but the author raises some of the
1:04:55questions for the reader to get the
1:04:58answers and think about this not to get
1:05:01a clearcut answer there are some legal
1:05:04trouble with these house as well. That
1:05:07was why that is why it was very cheap
1:05:12and uh so the legal trouble and uh and
1:05:15it has been an empty place for years.
1:05:18It's a haunted place
1:05:21right and uh as noted it was a very
1:05:24cheap one also. No one had been living
1:05:26there for a long time. There had been
1:05:29some legal trouble with the house. So
1:05:32the husband has selected this house.
1:05:35This also really question sometimes is
1:05:39it simply because of the practical sense
1:05:42practicality of the husband or does it
1:05:45show the concerns the real concerns
1:05:48towards the wife as well. To add to that
1:05:51we can note that initially the the
1:05:54author says the husband husband laugh at
1:05:57me if she is a patient quote unquote
1:06:01patient laughing a doctor laughing at
1:06:04the patient is it is it's not uh it's
1:06:08not the correct one right so that is why
1:06:11I told you that the husband's role might
1:06:13appear here really as as it is noted
1:06:16here uh laughing at women if
1:06:20expect accept expected in marriage as
1:06:24well. And uh
1:06:29uh
1:06:35I even said so to my so to John. So I
1:06:40can feel about the house. The feelings
1:06:42about the house was expressed to John.
1:06:46But he said what I felt was a drought.
1:06:49and shut the window. Look at the way
1:06:51that he responds to the concerns.
1:06:55So you see that so this ghostliness and
1:06:58I I'm afraid I'm afraid I I have told
1:07:02this thing to John. I even said so to
1:07:05John one moonlight evening but he said
1:07:08what I felt was a draw and shut the
1:07:11window. Look at the response. Look at
1:07:14the response from the husband plus the
1:07:16physician.
1:07:18Right? Those are some of the questions
1:07:20that uh you need to perhaps you need to
1:07:23raise right and uh
1:07:34and uh
1:07:37no this is something that you have
1:07:39quoted each hour you have a scheduled
1:07:41prescription.
1:07:43He takes all care from me and so I feel
1:07:47ungrateful not to value it more. He said
1:07:50we came here solely on my account.
1:07:53He said he said please note he said
1:07:58we came here solely on my account that I
1:08:01was to have perfect rest and all the air
1:08:05I could get.
1:08:07Your exercise depends on your strength
1:08:11and my dear sensei and you food someone
1:08:14on your appetite
1:08:16but yeah you
1:08:19can absorb all the time.
1:08:23So we took the nursery at the top of the
1:08:26house
1:08:28and look at the place the room that they
1:08:31have selected as well. Try it and uh
1:08:37okay and uh let's uh let's uh
1:08:42okay let's read these last uh few words
1:08:46of the paragraph par page as well. It is
1:08:50dull enough to confuse the eye in
1:08:52following pronounce enough to constantly
1:08:56irritate and provoke study. And when you
1:08:59follow the lame uncertain curves for a
1:09:02little distance, they suddenly commit
1:09:04suicide, plunge off at outrage and us
1:09:08destroy ourselves in an unheard of
1:09:12contradictions.
1:09:13Okay, we will have a look at the next
1:09:16few words as well.
1:09:23The color is repellent, almost
1:09:25revolting,
1:09:27smoldering, unclean yellow, strangely
1:09:29faded by the slow turning sunlight. So
1:09:33now you see that gradually
1:09:37the author or the narrator is
1:09:40introducing us to the wall wallpaper.
1:09:45It is a dull
1:09:48orange in some places, a strictly sulfur
1:09:52tint in the others.
1:09:54I should hate it myself if I had to live
1:09:57in this room law.
1:10:01Look at this one. There comes John. I
1:10:04must put this away.
1:10:06What is this here?
1:10:10What is this here?
1:10:11>> Secret diary.
1:10:13>> Diary. So she writes secretly is
1:10:16mentioned in this one. There comes John.
1:10:19You see that the moment he moment she
1:10:22hears the footsteps
1:10:24of John, she hides this. I must put this
1:10:27away. He hates to have me write a word.
1:10:31Write a word.
1:10:33Look at the restriction
1:10:36through the words. Look at the
1:10:37restrictions. Each hour you have a she
1:10:40has a scheduled prescription.
1:10:52He hates to have me write a word
1:10:56right now. You see the gradually we have
1:10:58been here for 2 weeks
1:11:02right?
1:11:07Look at this one. John is away all day,
1:11:12even some nights when his cases are
1:11:15serious. So, he's a fishial.
1:11:19So, even during the night, she's living
1:11:21in this haunted haunted room.
1:11:29I'm glad my case is not serious. You see
1:11:31that? How
1:11:34how ridiculous and how ironic that she
1:11:37writes it like this. I'm glad my case is
1:11:39not serious. So you see the way that
1:11:42she's considering the other cases that
1:11:44means other patients as serious.
1:11:48Very sarcastic way of looking at it. And
1:11:51you also see
1:11:53how she gains how this narrator gains a
1:11:57kind of authority and power which is
1:12:01very subtly expressed through the choice
1:12:03of words
1:12:06through the way that she expresses
1:12:07certain things. Please note it.
1:12:11Excuse me madam.
1:12:13We can like this. No. uh she's happy
1:12:16when he's not around that she glad about
1:12:20that
1:12:21>> that is also there you are right and in
1:12:24a way not from the beginning but when
1:12:26when the when the when the story is
1:12:29gradually developing
1:12:31uh because towards the end which is
1:12:34really visible then she can then she can
1:12:38write and she can of course ultimately
1:12:40develop the relationship or the
1:12:43communication with that figure
1:12:46with that figure in the wall right now
1:12:50what I told you is as a reader you see
1:12:53if she is like a patient
1:12:57now as a reader not as the way that she
1:12:59thinks you understood my point
1:13:02hello did you get my point
1:13:05now not in the not from the point of
1:13:10the narrator's weep she may be happy
1:13:13really in a way. What I wanted to look
1:13:16at is now as an outsider, if she's the
1:13:19husband, if she's the doctor and the way
1:13:22that she the amount of time and amount
1:13:26of concern that she pays to the wife and
1:13:29the patient. You get my point? Hello?
1:13:32Did you get the difference?
1:13:34>> Yes.
1:13:35>> Okay.
1:13:38>> Yes.
1:13:40Uh
1:13:43John does not know how much I really
1:13:46suffer. These are her thoughts.
1:13:49John does not know how much I really
1:13:51suffer. He know there's no reason to
1:13:53suffer and that satisfies him. There's
1:13:56no reason to suffer and that satisfies
1:13:59him. So it sits is it his satisfaction
1:14:03or her satisfaction which should be
1:14:06prioritized.
1:14:08Right? Those are some of the question.
1:14:10He should there's no reason to suffer
1:14:12and that satisfies
1:14:14him and uh
1:14:21okay uh
1:14:31okay then it is fortunate in a way Mary
1:14:36is so good with the baby such a dear
1:14:39baby and yet I cannot be with him. It
1:14:44makes me so nervous. You see that you
1:14:46are not given the baby
1:14:50yet I cannot be with him and she's in a
1:14:53way happy that the the baby is with Mary
1:14:56right and it makes me so nervous. I
1:14:59suppose John never was nervous in his
1:15:03life.
1:15:04He laughs at me.
1:15:09So about this wallpaper. Now look at
1:15:12this. Now getting turning. You are
1:15:15developing a relationship and
1:15:16communication and you see hallucinations
1:15:19on the wall now, right? So you develop
1:15:23it. The narrator develops this
1:15:26hallucinations. So I suppose John never
1:15:28was nervous in his life. He laughs at
1:15:31me,
1:15:33right? He laughs at me.
1:15:36Uh
1:15:39and uh yes. Okay. Can you can you can
1:15:42you read the rest and tell me something
1:15:44important importance from the rest of
1:15:48this page page as well? Anything that
1:15:51you have noted special
1:16:13>> madam when we talk about her room uh
1:16:17it's earlier it used to be a playroom
1:16:20And the windows are barred and it's like
1:16:24just like a prison to her.
1:16:27>> Okay. Yes. Now,
1:16:37>> yes, you're right. Okay. Go ahead.
1:16:39You're good. Your observation is good.
1:16:42In the latter part, what happens?
1:16:53And then she asked to renovate the house
1:16:56and he says that uh we got this house
1:16:58for a 3 month rental basis. So he
1:17:02ignored her thoughts.
1:17:04>> Okay. Ignored the request. Yes, you're
1:17:06right.
1:17:30Madam, I think sometimes that if I were
1:17:33only well enough to write a little, it
1:17:36would be uh it would uh reveal the press
1:17:41of ideas and rest me.
1:17:44>> Sorry,
1:17:44>> she's writing secretly. She thinks that
1:17:47it's a relief to her.
1:17:49>> Yes. Yes. writing is relief to her.
1:17:51>> Yeah. Yeah. It's emphasized here by the
1:17:55narrator.
1:17:56>> Yeah. It's it's emphasized and it's like
1:17:58she believes that writing is the one
1:18:00which gives me gives me the relief
1:18:03really my mental condition and because
1:18:05I'm developing I'm expressing my
1:18:08thoughts. You see that allowing the
1:18:10narrator to
1:18:12like express her thoughts. You see when
1:18:15you like even even for anybody really
1:18:20Whenever you want to express and if you
1:18:22are unable to express if no one is there
1:18:24to listen to that is the the most
1:18:27important part for depression right
1:18:31now even nowadays now if we need to we
1:18:35need to express our our sorrow our anger
1:18:39our feelings really
1:18:44sorry right
1:18:47uh
1:18:48So expression is
1:18:52stopped.
1:18:54So that is why she has taken a mode of
1:18:58expression with the diary. And later on
1:19:01you see this expression this
1:19:03communication. You do communicate. So
1:19:06you don't have anybody to communicate.
1:19:08And she starts communicating with the
1:19:11dead paper. That is the dead paper here
1:19:14in the sense the diary.
1:19:17and she could tell anything there
1:19:21and then later on she starts developing
1:19:24and communicating
1:19:26communicating or developing
1:19:29communication with a figure in the on
1:19:32the wallpaper too.
1:19:34So it's communication which matters.
1:19:37So as I told you this uh gives also the
1:19:41idea how important how how useful
1:19:45giving a chance to the to express
1:19:48yourself and this is in a way therefore
1:19:51we can say that this is a is in a way a
1:19:54a critique of this medical treatment as
1:19:57well
1:19:58in general
1:20:03you know that I told you that she
1:20:05herself the author herself in uh real
1:20:08life has undergone this treatment. So
1:20:10she could write about this with her own
1:20:13experiences as well.
1:20:15Right.
1:20:17>> Yeah. Okay. We'll we'll read the next
1:20:21part.
1:20:22>> Madam here there is no companionship.
1:20:26She doesn't have anyone to talk. Even
1:20:29cousin is there.
1:20:32>> Yes. No one is there to the
1:20:34communication is an issue really no one
1:20:37is there to talk with her even the
1:20:39husband is they rarely there and even
1:20:42when she expresses herself as so do you
1:20:46think that empathy is there do you think
1:20:49that husband husband plus the doctor the
1:20:52physician
1:20:55like uh has given the chance for her to
1:21:00speak or uh to express herself that is
1:21:04limited even the expression is curtailed
1:21:07limited right
1:21:08>> yes madam both empathy and sympathy are
1:21:11there
1:21:13>> sympathy also yeah yes the husband uh
1:21:16doesn't understand her situation so
1:21:18sympathy is there
1:21:26>> husband does not allow her to express
1:21:29even uh doesn't uh attempt to understand
1:21:33her thoughts as well. But we see them as
1:21:36readers because she has expressed them
1:21:39openly on the paper. Right. Okay. From
1:21:42this page, what can you like? Can you
1:21:44tell me? Just move it. Go ahead. Can you
1:21:47tell me something from this page as
1:21:49well?
1:22:02Ma'am, I think um John is always trying
1:22:06to insult her that uh whenever she says
1:22:10something, he um behaving uh towards her
1:22:14like uh she's less intelligent or not
1:22:18capable of these things and she don't
1:22:20know anything.
1:22:22>> Okay, you're right. Okay.
1:22:25Mhm. Why do you say so? Give me an
1:22:27example from the text.
1:22:31>> Uh the example is ma'am that uh he
1:22:35laughs at me. Um smiling and laughing
1:22:39are different things and uh laughing is
1:22:42like insulting someone like like u he
1:22:45don't know anything like maybe he thinks
1:22:48that she don't know anything so he
1:22:51laughs at her.
1:22:54Okay.
1:22:55Okay.
1:23:00Yeah. Any other ideas? Any other
1:23:02volunteers from this page as well?
1:23:26Look at this line.
1:23:29What does this say?
1:23:33You see my cursor?
1:23:37Uh man, she thinks that all the
1:23:40physicians are same like John. They
1:23:44don't listen uh patients thought.
1:23:50>> Okay. Okay. Now I'm asking different
1:23:52question. Do you see my cursor and tell
1:23:55me what this is really?
1:23:58>> Yeah. Uh John says if I don't pick up
1:24:00faster he shall send me to where
1:24:03Mitchell where Mitchell is actually a
1:24:06doctor.
1:24:08uh
1:24:09>> the one who started this introduced this
1:24:11uh rescue treatment so that hospital or
1:24:16something like that you see that you are
1:24:18telling these things to the you are
1:24:20telling these things to the to the
1:24:22patient as well now if now look at this
1:24:26character really I mean John's character
1:24:28really as mentioned by the by the
1:24:30narrator so the if this is a mental
1:24:34situation can we decide really even a
1:24:37physical situation
1:24:39Can we decide by ourselves when when we
1:24:42will feel better and etc. No, it's an
1:24:45automatic thing, right? Healing is an
1:24:48automatic it's a automatic process. But
1:24:50John says if I do not pick up faster,
1:24:55if I do not pick up faster,
1:24:57he shall send me to this hospital
1:25:01in the fall in the next month. This is
1:25:05the summer in the fall that they would
1:25:07say. So look at the look at the the way
1:25:11that he has used these words.
1:25:15Is it clear? Did you get my point?
1:25:18Huh?
1:25:19Did you get the point?
1:25:23If you are a patient, even you are
1:25:25physically well, physically not well,
1:25:28can you decide on the time that you
1:25:30would get you would heal?
1:25:36No. So even this applies to even medical
1:25:39state sorry psychological status as
1:25:42well. But John
1:25:44knowing all those things as a doctor
1:25:47says that if you do not pick up faster I
1:25:50will give you I will send you to the
1:25:52hospital.
1:25:54If I do not pick up faster how can she
1:25:58get pick up faster really on her own?
1:26:01That's a natural process.
1:26:05Right. And uh
1:26:14look at this. But I don't want to go
1:26:16there at all. I had a friend who was in
1:26:20his hands once.
1:26:22In this doctor's hands once, in this
1:26:24hospital once. And she says, "He's just
1:26:27[clears throat] like John and my
1:26:29brother. He's just like John and my
1:26:31brother.
1:26:33Both are very like in a way to her they
1:26:35are very insensitive
1:26:38doctors physicians
1:26:43right he is just he here means this
1:26:46particular doctor resture doctor
1:26:50just like John and my brother both are
1:26:52doctors both are males
1:26:58right anything else that you have noted
1:27:00from Yeah,
1:27:09look at this one. But in the places
1:27:11where it isn't faded.
1:27:15What is this? It here.
1:27:18What's it here?
1:27:21What's this? Eight.
1:27:40>> The wallpaper.
1:27:42>> Exactly.
1:27:44Exactly. So you see that uh gradually
1:27:46that the author or the narrator is
1:27:51introducing
1:27:53the reader the wallpaper as well even in
1:27:56an initial situation is so that but in
1:27:58the places where it isn't faded
1:28:02and where the sun is just so I can see a
1:28:05strange provoking homeless sort of
1:28:08figure. So initially is a figure.
1:28:13So her hallucinations
1:28:15are developed really how he's on the way
1:28:18and on the other hand how she develops
1:28:21talking with her
1:28:24a sort of figure that seems to skull
1:28:27about behind that silly unconscious from
1:28:30design.
1:28:41And uh
1:28:50now look at this as someone suggested I
1:28:52am alone a good deal just now now this
1:28:55loneliness has becoming like a good
1:28:58thing for her now good thing for her
1:29:01because she can she can talk with the
1:29:04she can communicate with the
1:29:07with the with that uh figure and alone a
1:29:10good field just now. John is kept in
1:29:12town very often by serious cases. John
1:29:16is kept in town once again. John is not
1:29:18here for serious cases, serious
1:29:21patients. And uh
1:29:24and Jenny is good that lets me alone
1:29:26when I want her to. So I walk a little
1:29:29in the garden or down that lovely lane,
1:29:33sit on the porch under the roses, and
1:29:35lie down up here a good deal. I'm
1:29:38getting really fond of the room in spite
1:29:41of the wallpaper. As Because of the
1:29:44wallpaper,
1:29:45because of the wallpaper, it dwells in
1:29:48my mind. So, it dwells in my mind. So, I
1:29:51lie here on the great immovable bed. It
1:29:55is nailed down. I believe even the bed
1:29:59cannot be moved. Please note, it's an
1:30:02immovable bed. and uh follow the pattern
1:30:07about Bhava
1:30:09and uh
1:30:12and day we see that I will follow that
1:30:15pointless pattern to some sort of
1:30:18conclusion right and now we'll come
1:30:20towards the
1:30:23uh end of this one
1:30:25I know a little of the principle of
1:30:27design and I know this thing was not a
1:30:29range on my on any laws of radiation or
1:30:33alteration or repetition or symmetry or
1:30:36anything else that I ever heard. It is
1:30:39repeated of course by the breaths but
1:30:42not otherwise looked at in one way. Each
1:30:46breath stands alone.
1:30:48The bloated curves and the flats and
1:30:50kind of del
1:30:54with the brs go with
1:30:59down in isolated columns of petuity. But
1:31:02on the other hand they connect and and
1:31:06the strolling outlines run off into
1:31:08slanty waves of optic horror like a lot
1:31:12of now you see you see the hall the
1:31:15development of hallucinations
1:31:17and development of
1:31:20this
1:31:22picture.
1:31:23how she develops this
1:31:26and uh
1:31:29how she develops this, how she looks at
1:31:31this, how she develops the
1:31:34communication, right?
1:31:37And uh
1:31:39then it goes on
1:31:43and I don't know why I should write
1:31:46this. I don't want to. I do feel able
1:31:50and I know John would think
1:31:53it absurd but I must say that I feel but
1:31:57I must say what I feel. So giving this
1:32:02this diary gives the chance for her to
1:32:04communicate what I feel and think in
1:32:07some way. It is such a relief. It is
1:32:10such a relief.
1:32:12And uh
1:32:16and John says something else.
1:32:23And dear John, he loves me very dearly
1:32:26and hates to have me sick. I tried to
1:32:29have a real earnest reasonable talk with
1:32:32him the other day and tell him how I
1:32:34wish he would let me go and make a visit
1:32:38to cousin Henry and Julian. But he said
1:32:41I wasn't able to go nor able to stand it
1:32:45after I got there and I did not make out
1:32:48a very good case for myself
1:32:51for I was crying before I had finished
1:32:57and it goes on like this
1:33:00and we see the last few ones here. You
1:33:04do have to read the story in this manner
1:33:08and
1:33:09you see what is happening in the end.
1:33:18Okay. Read this bit and tell me
1:34:32Yeah. Talk about this before you
1:34:35bind up really
1:34:53What happened in the entry?
1:34:56Yeah.
1:35:23Hello.
1:35:25Are you all reading this for the first
1:35:27time?
1:35:31She was annoyed by the wallpaper and
1:35:34ultimately she teared it
1:35:37and get relief from the place. Uhhuh.
1:35:41>> Okay. Actually,
1:35:44she locked herself in the room and she
1:35:48start to peel off the wallpapers
1:35:51uh thinking that uh she can get the um
1:35:56woman inside the wallpaper can um free
1:35:59herself like
1:36:02>> Yes, you're right. So, it's a type of
1:36:04metaphorical liberty really. So you see
1:36:06that she's tearing off that that means
1:36:08she's she's moving out of this one right
1:36:13it's a metaphorical one that figure she
1:36:16identifies it as herself or something
1:36:18like that and uh so she starts doing
1:36:21that and she and and uh and uh
1:36:28why there's John at the door
1:36:31>> uh she
1:36:34can't open
1:36:36How he just call and pound. Now he's
1:36:38crying for an axe.
1:36:41He's crying for an axe. It would be a
1:36:44shame to break down that beautiful door.
1:36:46John dear said I in the gentlest voice.
1:36:50The key is down by the front steps under
1:36:53a plant leaf that silence him for a few
1:36:57minutes.
1:36:59That silence him for a few moments.
1:37:04Then he said very quietly indeed, "Open
1:37:06the door, my darling. I can't," said I.
1:37:09"The key is down by the front door under
1:37:12a fl." And then I said it again several
1:37:15times very gently, slowly, and said it
1:37:18so often that he had to go and see. And
1:37:21he got it out, of course, and came in.
1:37:24He stopped short by the door. "What's
1:37:27the matter?" he cried. "For God's sake.
1:37:30What are you doing?" I kept on creeping
1:37:33just the same. But I looked at him over
1:37:36my shoulder.
1:37:38I have got out at last. This is an
1:37:42important line.
1:37:44I've got out at last.
1:37:47So this is a hallucination. Could be a
1:37:50hallucination. So don't ask me whether
1:37:52this happens in reality or something
1:37:54like that. We don't know whether it
1:37:57happens in reality. This is a
1:37:58hallucination. This gives us the idea.
1:38:02This is how her mind works. Really, I've
1:38:06got out at last. I said, in spite of you
1:38:11and Jane, I have pulled off most of the
1:38:14papers. So, you can't put me back. You
1:38:17can't put me in. So, this is a type of
1:38:20uh liberation, liberty. So, for a
1:38:23feminist reader, this is a type of
1:38:25liberation of the oppression. Oppression
1:38:28here as symbolized to the rescue
1:38:32exercise by the husband plus the
1:38:34physician
1:38:36and the other male hedgemonic ideology.
1:38:42Right?
1:38:46And now why should that man have
1:38:48fainted?
1:38:51But he did and right across my path by
1:38:54the wall so that I had to creep over him
1:38:57every time. I would creep over him every
1:39:00time. So I have to creep over. It's not
1:39:03something that uh that uh your liberty
1:39:06may not be uh offered to you but you
1:39:11have to find it.
1:39:14This is the metaphorical reference to
1:39:16the freedom
1:39:18uh the female the freedom that they
1:39:22wanted to
1:39:24the females wanted to get
1:39:28really and experienced really in a
1:39:30literal manner. It's presented in a very
1:39:33symbolic manner as well.
1:39:38All right. Okay. With that, before I
1:39:40wind up, would you like to add something
1:39:42or would you say it?
1:39:45Would you like to add your comments to
1:39:47this?
1:39:57Hello. Can I tell my subject?
1:40:06So, do you see now? Uh do you see a
1:40:09difference in the in the authority of
1:40:12the man from the beginning to the end
1:40:17at least metaphorically
1:40:19type of difference in the authority
1:40:22the man's authority that means John's
1:40:24authority
1:40:26huh
1:40:29>> no
1:40:29>> no
1:40:32yes or no is it changed now is it
1:40:34surrendered to at least temporarily
1:40:38At least up to a certain level.
1:40:41>> Yes. And what is the voice or the power
1:40:44of the or the authority of the woman is
1:40:47it changed from the beginning to the
1:40:49end?
1:40:50>> Yes.
1:40:51>> Yes. So that has to be identified and
1:40:55for a feminist reader that is what you
1:40:57have to identify really. So you see how
1:41:00this authority is changed
1:41:02in a way. it is now uh exchanged sort of
1:41:07thing transformed.
1:41:10So at the beginning
1:41:13you see this lady this this speaker
1:41:17is even hiding the diaries that she has
1:41:21been uh maintained the diary notes that
1:41:24she has been maintaining
1:41:26and in the end we see that she's
1:41:29demanding the man
1:41:32she's keeping the key
1:41:35and even like you see that is it's
1:41:39change the voice is in at least
1:41:41temporarily it's changed at least
1:41:43metaphorically it's changed
1:41:46right and with that we would uh uh end
1:41:51for and the today's session and uh read
1:41:55it again and we will engage in in
1:41:59further discussions when we when we talk
1:42:03about uh how to write answers
1:42:07right so you do have to familiarize
1:42:11further
1:42:12with the text really now you know the
1:42:15anger read it again
1:42:17and then uh be ready to engage in
1:42:20discussions and write answers as well
1:42:23right okay thank you for listening to me
1:42:30>> thank you ma'am
1:42:31>> thank you ma'am
1:42:34thank you ma'am ma'am

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