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in this depression she begins to see things in this wallpaper, a patterned wallpaper, that essentially symbolizes her sense of ent...

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...

In six pages the social treatment of women is examined within the context of this story in an exploration of plot, characterizatio...

This paper consists of 5 pages and considers women that did not faithfully follow the rules of the social patriarchy such as the 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 ...

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...

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...

This paper considers the similar falls of each family in a comparative analysis of these novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne and William...

In five pages this paper examines how original sin is represented by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the characterization of Pearl in The S...

of the letter "A" We are using the word "symbol" to indicate one thing that stands for another. Xs and Os for example at the end...

In six pages this paper examines how temptation is featured in the Hawthorne short stories 'Young Goodman Brown,' 'The Minister's ...

true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...

gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...

symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...

culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...

insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In his di...

the reader is actually living the life of Offred, seeing and making the same assumptions she is making. This style of approach to...

In six pages public welfare is examined with the focus being on women's contributions in a consideration of such texts as 'Of Woma...

who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...

In two pages this essay analyzes an individual's social role and the gender stratification theories of author Charlotte Perkins Gi...

In six pages this paper discusses how escaping into nature is thematically developed in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, William Faulkn...