Pec Genero y Literatura 2021 nota 9 de 10 PDF

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 Esta PEC consta de dos preguntas de ensayo de las que debe elegir una. Se debe contestar solo una de las dos preguntas.
 Redacte la PEC en inglés o en español, de forma clara y ordenada. Debe elaborar las respuestas con sus propias palabras, ejemplificando sus argumentos con los textos lite...

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GÉNERO Y LITERATURA EN LOS PAÍSES DE HABLA INGLESA PRUEBA DE EVALUACIÓN CONTINUA (PEC) 2021

NOMBRE Y APELLIDOS: ERIKA ALEXANDRA CASTANO CANABERAL INSTRUCCIONES:  Conteste en las hojas de la PEC. SE HA DE ENTREGAR EL ENUNCIADO.  Esta PEC consta de dos preguntas de ensayo de las que debe elegir una. Se debe contestar solo una de las dos preguntas.  Redacte la PEC en inglés o en español, de forma clara y ordenada. Debe elaborar las respuestas con sus propias palabras, ejemplificando sus argumentos con los textos literarios objeto de la pregunta, y utilizando la terminología propia de los estudios de género.  Puede utilizar fuentes bibliográficas pero debe reconocerlas y recogerlas adecuadamente. En este enlace encontrará información sobre el uso ético de fuentes. Toda PEC con indicios de plagio será calificada con un 0.  Entregue esta PEC en “Tareas” del curso virtual, en formato Word, antes del 13 de diciembre de 2021 (tenga en cuenta que la hora límite que figura en ALF es horario peninsular español). OPCIÓN 1: Choose one of the compulsory literary works of the subject and explain how it illustrates first-wave feminism. What elements in the work (characters, events, and so on) show the features of the first wave? / Escoja uno de los textos literarios de lectura obligatoria de la asignatura, y explique de qué modo ejemplifica la primera ola del feminismo. ¿Qué elementos de la obra (personajes, situaciones, etc.) reflejan las características de la primera ola? OPCIÓN 2: Explain the differences between the figures of “the angel in the house” and “the madwoman in the attic” with the help of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” How does the story exemplify the differences between the two figures? / Explique las diferencias entre las figuras de “the angel in the house” y “the madwoman in the attic” con ayuda del relato “The Yellow Wallpaper” de Charlotte Perkins Gilman . ¿De qué manera ilustra el relato las diferencias entre ambas figuras?

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During the Victorian era, women only fit into two categories: an angel or a devil. Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” exemplifies perfectly the dangers of this dichotomy. The protagonist of the story starts as an ‘angel’, performing her duties of wife and mother but once she attempts to explore something more personal and creative beyond that, she starts moving towards a dangerous zone and has to be declared “sick” by Victorian society. She moves to the ‘madwoman’ zone and is placed in a suffocating room, isolated from everyone else. In Gilman’s short story we can see great exemplification of these two categories in which women were placed during the Victorian period. On one hand we have, “The angel in the house” also known as the ideal woman. Ideal, of course, for Victorian society and more specifically for the men of the period. This ideal woman is passive, submissive and voiceless. She never thinks by herself or for herself. All her decisions are made by others, especially by the men in her life. She is domesticized and happy with her role. Take for example, Jennie, who is described by the narrator as “perfect”. She is seen as perfect precisely because she accepts and loves her domestic role and does not aspire to anything else: “She is a perfect and enthusiastic housekeeper and hopes for no better profession.” The narrator of the story suggests that she would like to feel the same way but there is a yearning inside of her that makes her desire more. She knows that this is wrong because if she is to be an “angel” she should not question her role in life. She should not explore anything else than her roles as a wife and mother and she should never aspire to any kind of creative enterprise, especially writing. That is why she writes in secret because she knows this practice is not welcome: “There comes John, and I must put this away, - he hates to have me write a word.” She wants to be an “angel” and she starts as one. She is married, she has a baby and she lets her husband make all decisions for her, including decisions about her health. She is doing everything right, so she is supposed to be content but once she is not, once she tries to explore her creative cravings with writing and intellectual development, she is immediately labeled “hysterical” and put to bed rest. Moreover, once she dares to question her husband’s treatment and suggests something different, she moves rapidly to the category of a “madwoman”; Why? Because an angel is supposed to bow to her husband as described in Coventry Patmore’s poem, “The Angel of the House”: "Man must be pleased. but him to please Is woman's pleasure. down the gulf Of his condoled necessities She casts her best, she flings herself."

The fact that she expresses discontent with her role when she seemingly has no rational reasons to do so indicates to her husband John that she must have a disease specific to women and the only way to cure it is to isolate and imprison her. His intention is to help her remain an “angel”. Nobody wants her to become a “madwoman” but by limiting her and isolating her that is exactly what they achieve. The cure proves to be worse than the disease. Being a “madwoman in the attic” is considered a disease. A disease that a woman contracts when she resists the role of being an “angel”. If a woman in Victorian society did not embrace her domestic role enthusiastically and submissively, she had to be treated as a threat to herself and society. She had to be confined because this kind of rebellion against patriarchal ideals could not be tolerated or spread to other women. But many “angels” did grow dissatisfied and became “madwomen”. It happened to the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” and it happened to its writer as well. This is precisely why Charlotte Perkins Gilman leaves us with this moral: forcing a woman into only one of this two categories is dangerous and counterproductive. A better conclusion

References: -Perkins Gilman Charlotte, The Yellow Wallpaper. -Patmore Coventry, The Angel in the House. -Gilbert Sandra; Gubar Susan. The Madwoman in the Attic. You would need more biobliography 9...