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Published: 22.01.2006.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Pygmalion Effect: "Yellow Wallpaper" v. "Pygmalion"', 1.
Extract

The Pygmalion Effect is when ones expectations are met. This is usually between a coach and player, teacher and student, parent and child, doctor and patient or even ones own expectations. In the play "Pygmalion", we see the teacher/student relationship. In "Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the Pygmalion Effect is seen in two relationships; the doctor patient relationship and ones own expectations. However while the play Pygmalion supports the Pygmalion Effect, Yellow Wallpaper repels it.
In the story "The Yellow Wallpaper" a women (presumed to be Charlotte Perkins Gilman),…

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