Essays 31 - 60
This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...
This 6 page paper gives an analysis of the story the Yellow Wallpaper. This paper includes comparisons from Gillman's own life a...
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...
developed during this time, as madness was associated with menstruation, pregnancy, and the menopause. The womb itself was deemed ...
believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that ...
saved by a friend and turned to writing which greatly changed her entire perspective, giving her "some measure of power" (Gilman [...
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...
of this era, stereotyping the average female as prone to "hysterical" nervous disorders and the entire gender as "economically a n...
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)...
call on the point of her physician-husband (Brooks ppg) The narrator tells us: "John is a physician, and perhaps--(I would not sa...
She is never allowed any control over her environment or her circumstances. Her opinions are always discounted by her husband. Whe...
a supposed "cure" for her depressed symptoms, becomes, in fact, the catalyst to -2- her entire mental downfall. She h...
"I must put this away,--he hates to have me write a word." This shows how controlling John is over her as both husband and docto...
A paper which argues that although Gilman's narrative is primarily concerned with the oppression of women leading to mental deteri...
on her by her "captors." Because of the role of her own husband in her loss of freedom and the impact of societal perceptions on ...
and claims to be overtired, although she seems to be able to write some thousand words at a stretch. In this first section she als...
In five pages this paper examines the nightmare states evoked by hallucinogenic symbolism in these two works that blur the line be...
This essay consists of six pages and compares the social oppression the wives in each story experiences. There is no bibliography...
In five pages this paper discusses how the American experience defines gender relationships in a comparative analysis of these two...
In five pages this story's 5th section is analyzed in terms of the wallpaper symbolism, what it projects, and how it relates to th...
In five pages this paper compares these stories' similarities in terms of how melancholia or depression is featured in each. Five...
A section from this story is analyzed and then considered within the whole story's context in a paper consisting of five pages. T...
who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...