synthesis week #2

This week was about discovering the role of women as seen through literature. In both Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper we see women in contrasting societal positions. In The Yellow Wallpaper the heroine is trapped by her treatment and her husband who is a high standing doctor. In Herland women are the society on this famed island. Both are of fictional origins but remain relevant about female status at the respective tmes of their writing.
We also began The Sun Also Rises which stands by itself a book involving women as opposed to the two others which were soleyl focused on women. In The Sun Also Rises Lady Brett is introduced to us as larger-than-life socialite who is in love with the central character of Jake but because of his impotency, spends much time in the company of other men. This character strongly contrasts with the representation of largely unpassionate women in the other stories. This secures our idealisms of a woman's role comparable to a woman's interest.