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

There have been various analysis based on these three stories and the characters involved: â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper,† â€Å"The Birthmark,† and â€Å"The Goose Girl†. This paper will focus on analysis based on figurative 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 diverse message that can be spun in many different directions. â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper† is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman who specialized in poetry, short stories and social reform. Jane in â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper† is a passive character that shows her passivity in a quite distinct manner. According to a quote from a critic of this short story, â€Å"Visible: the prisoner will constantly have before his eyes the tall outline of the c entral tower from which he is spied upon. Unverifiable: the prisoner must never know whether he is being looked at any one moment; but he must be sure that he may always be so.† â€Å"The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: 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 â€Å"Panopticon† (Michel Foucault, 1979). This method regulated the prisoners behavior at all times and in this story, it regulated Jane’s behavior so she was used to taking orders. In addition, this critic also describes the narr... ...unk. "The Birthmark." Literature and the Writing 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 Beauty Ideal in Children's Fairy Tales." Gender and Society 17.5 (2003): 711-26. JSTOR. Web. 4 July 2015. Suess, Barbara A. "The Writing's on the Wall" Symbolic Orders in 'The Yellow Wallpaper'." Women's 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 Foreign Language 5.3 (2007): 52-57. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 31 July 2015.