specific instructions are attached (WRITE ABOUT PROMPT 1).
The short readings are also attached (The Yellow Wallpaper & The Story of the Hour)
1. Themes Despite the rise of scientific discovery at the end of the nineteenth century and into our era, science, including medical science, enjoyed and still enjoys great popularity and respect among the general population; alternatively, the authors stories we have read so far in the quarter are far more skeptical of the infallibility and certainty of science and scientists, including the notion of medical professional certainty and infallibility. Analyzing one or two literary elements in Kate Chopins The Story of An Hour and Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper, explain how these authorss use of one or two literary devices work together in each story to encourage readers skepticism of scientific belief and the medical professions supposed infallibility. Specifically, How does each author employ one or two literary devices in the story to help convey themes that ridicule science and technology, and male medical fallibility in particular?
