YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Film Brazil
Essays 61 - 90
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...
living arrangements (Clinton & Barker-Benfield, 1998). In fact, a student writing on this subject notes that these women were call...
into insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In h...
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...
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...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
upon her every which way she may turn, reminding her that because she is of the female gender and not of the most prominent of soc...
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...
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 ...
the house that they are staying in, her husband corrects her, saying that what she felt was a draught and he shut the window (Gilm...
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, the author's employment of voice, imagery, and gender themes are considered....
a supposed "cure" for her depressed symptoms, becomes, in fact, the catalyst to -2- her entire mental downfall. She h...
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 story's 5th section is analyzed in terms of the wallpaper symbolism, what it projects, and how it relates to th...
In six pages the social treatment of women is examined within the context of this story in an exploration of plot, characterizatio...
A paper which discusses the life, work and theories of the writer Charlotte Gilman, and looks specifically at the role of feminism...
A paper which takes a personal perspective on Gilman's classic text. Gilman presents a Utopia populated entirely by women, in a na...
In five pages this paper compares these stories' similarities in terms of how melancholia or depression is featured in each. Five...
that she did not have the wherewithal to match the experience of the opposing gender. It can be argued that the very first words ...
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...
or knowledge which is essential to him if he is to complete his tasks and become a true hero....
A paper which considers the feminist ideology presented by Gilman in her Utopian tale, Her Land, and argues that Gilman's perspect...
In five pages three works by the Bronte sisters Villette and Shirley by Charlotte Bronte and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne B...