YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Historical Critique of The Yellow Wallpaper
Essays 61 - 90
in this depression she begins to see things in this wallpaper, a patterned wallpaper, that essentially symbolizes her sense of ent...
and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depress...
world that she is a success. This character then stands as a powerful example of women from that era who were given few choices b...
reside," with the house representative or symbolic of the society as a whole (Goloversic). If we picture the house as society we ...
She is never allowed any control over her environment or her circumstances. Her opinions are always discounted by her husband. Whe...
narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
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...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...
The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...
A section from this story is analyzed and then considered within the whole story's context in a paper consisting of five pages. T...
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 examines the nightmare states evoked by hallucinogenic symbolism in these two works that blur the line be...
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...
a supposed "cure" for her depressed symptoms, becomes, in fact, the catalyst to -2- her entire mental downfall. She h...
In five pages, the author's employment of voice, imagery, and gender themes are considered....
and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) co...
In five pages Gilman's story and Gardner's novel are compared and contrasted with the focus being upon the protagonist's position ...
really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency--what is one to do? My brother i...
The Bronte and Gilman writings are discussed. The significance of haunting in each is the focus of attention. This eight page pa...
In six pages the social treatment of women is examined within the context of this story in an exploration of plot, characterizatio...
This 10 page essay analyzes the characters presented by Faulkner and Gilman. The author of this essay contends that each of these...
In six pages this paper examines the theme of insanity as portrayed in Gilman's story. Ten other sources are cited in the bibliog...
call on the point of her physician-husband (Brooks ppg) The narrator tells us: "John is a physician, and perhaps--(I would not sa...
century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...