Essays 31 - 60
relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...
excitement in the place. It is not necessarily a nurturing environment for one who wants something more out of life than to be a b...
well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...
insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every art...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
to appear more frequently. Eventually she locks herself in her room and tears the paper from the walls (Gilman, 1996; Yim, 1996). ...
narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls...
century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...
a dutiful wife, but there is clearly no connection between the two, and in this one can see one of the most powerful foundations f...
in pay and in intimate relationships, is a fundamental part of feminist thinking; it is equality in personal relationships that wi...
"Dont worry your pretty little head about it" and sending her to bed with milk and cookies. He treats her like a child. We also b...
it does not suggest that the reader become formally involved with the story. She (or he) need only read and "listen" to Gilmans wo...
is happening to her, but yet she heeds his advice and rules nonetheless because she was a good and dutiful wife. But, she knows sh...
how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her...
a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...
believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that ...
A 6 page essay that discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which continues to capture and fasci...
saved by a friend and turned to writing which greatly changed her entire perspective, giving her "some measure of power" (Gilman [...
that pushes her into insanity (Gilman). John is both a man and a doctor, and so presents a strong authority figure. When she firs...
developed during this time, as madness was associated with menstruation, pregnancy, and the menopause. The womb itself was deemed ...
so much time to be bored. Jewett writes: "Sylvia had all the time there was, and very little use to make of it" (759). Sylvia wa...
it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....
lesser creatures than men. In relationship to medical science, which involves Gilmans story a great deal, one author notes how, "I...
in 1892, tells the story of a woman who is diagnosed with a psychological disorder and is subjected to the prevailing treatments o...
and for good reason: it is a brilliant account of a womans descent into madness. Because it is handled so realistically, it is utt...
research paper on Gilmans "The Yellow Wallpaper". I have chosen this story primarily because of its aesthetic interest to me, in t...
life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in followin...
How patriarchy influenced the treatment of women in the 19th century is the focus of this analytical paper based on Charlotte Perk...
This essay pertain to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." The writer discusses plot, metaphor, s...