The Yellow Wallpaper: Crash Course Literature #407
Today on Crash Course Literature, John Green teaches you about The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper tells the story of a woman who is a prisoner in her own...
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Hi, I'm John Green and this is Crash Course Literature. So for the last few weeks, we've been talking a lot about Dystopias, imaginary societies gone wrong. Like George Orwell's "1984" is a world of war, surveillance, and mind control. "The Handmaid's Tale" portrays a toxic landscape in which healthy women are forced to produce offspring for the ruling class. "Candide" showed us the best of all possible worlds, which was terrible. And "Parable of the Sower" takes place in an alternate universe where a sloganeering, strongman president presides over a country, experiencing intense social disorder thanks to climate change. Fortunately none of that stuff has happened, yet, But today we're gonna talk abo...
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Hi, I'm John Green and this is Crash Course Literature. So for the last few weeks, we've been talking a lot about Dystopias, imaginary societies gone wrong. Like George Orwell's "1984" is a world of war, surveillance, and mind control. "The Handmaid's Tale" portrays a toxic landscape in which healthy women are forced to produce offspring for the ruling class. "Candide" showed us the best of all possible worlds, which was terrible. And "Parable of the Sower" takes place in an alternate universe where a sloganeering, strongman president presides over a country, experiencing intense social disorder thanks to climate change. Fortunately none of that stuff has happened, yet, But today we're gonna talk abo...
