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in pay and in intimate relationships, is a fundamental part of feminist thinking; it is equality in personal relationships that wi...

It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...

a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...

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 [...

that pushes her into insanity (Gilman). John is both a man and a doctor, and so presents a strong authority figure. When she firs...

developed during this time, as madness was associated with menstruation, pregnancy, and the menopause. The womb itself was deemed ...

it does not suggest that the reader become formally involved with the story. She (or he) need only read and "listen" to Gilmans wo...

Mrs. Mallards husband. She describes the "sudden wild abandonment" (Chopin 394) that Louise Mallard felt upon hearing this news. ...

one could present. In Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper her story, which is fictional, is actually based largely on her own experienc...

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...

"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...

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...

no nurturing. Neither story has a good ending, but the characters do emerge somewhat enlightened. Candide takes a very differen...

not strain her mental state. She must not write in her journal, she must not be in a room she finds more pleasant than the one cho...

room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

to see that it is just the opposite, for she needs intellectual stimulation, something other than marriage and motherhood to help ...

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

lesser creatures than men. In relationship to medical science, which involves Gilmans story a great deal, one author notes how, "I...

both the other woman and herself. She tells her shocked husband, who faints when he sees her creeping around the wall, that she ha...

in 1892, tells the story of a woman who is diagnosed with a psychological disorder and is subjected to the prevailing treatments o...

and for good reason: it is a brilliant account of a womans descent into madness. Because it is handled so realistically, it is utt...

research paper on Gilmans "The Yellow Wallpaper". I have chosen this story primarily because of its aesthetic interest to me, in t...

to emerge in the stories to be analyzed. The first major theme to emerge in the stories to be analyzed is the effect of power ineq...

life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in followin...

How patriarchy influenced the treatment of women in the 19th century is the focus of this analytical paper based on Charlotte Perk...

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The differences in perspective between "The Yellow Wallpa...