YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Canada in Letters by Charlotte Gray
Essays 481 - 510
In five pages each female character's questions about happiness are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources listed....
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
a lonely young woman who spent much of her life on a solitary journey toward love and acceptance. It was not something she would ...
purity of Jane, as a potential, "better" wife for Rochester (267). It also allows Rochester to vindicate himself at Berthas expens...
her plainness (women were suppose to be ornamental), Janes independence of will and obvious intellect win her not only the love of...
heroine in that, even as a child, she rejected the concept of defect within herself. Victorians saw feminine defect, i.e. traditio...
and brother, "If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing th...
the two female characters who interacted in literature with Edward Rochester, one notices differences - and similarities - in thei...
relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...
well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...
woman likes her surroundings and it is clear that she likes them orderly. A young woman who was not immersed somehow in the idea o...
insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every art...
social restrictions she found particularly repugnant. First published in 1816, Emma "criticizes the manners and values of the upp...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
living arrangements (Clinton & Barker-Benfield, 1998). In fact, a student writing on this subject notes that these women were call...
combined with his perception of Jane, makes him think a bit more deeply about his character when he tells her to go to the library...
way of interacting with the world around her. Is this a...
for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...
the time who had attended anything remotely resembling one (as Charlotte Bront? herself had), the abuses struck a chord of familia...
keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
women and have no true knowledge of what life is like in a society with two sexes. These men fall in love, and eventually are kick...
reside," with the house representative or symbolic of the society as a whole (Goloversic). If we picture the house as society we ...
in this depression she begins to see things in this wallpaper, a patterned wallpaper, that essentially symbolizes her sense of ent...
to use looks as an anchor. The other thing that Jane is not is greedy. When Edward offers her all kinds of clothes and jewels, she...
focus on her self-respect: "I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it d...
this passage, the narration shifts and it is clear that the reader is experiencing the red room from the perspective of Jane as a ...
narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls...
She is never allowed any control over her environment or her circumstances. Her opinions are always discounted by her husband. Whe...
into insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In h...