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a male, well, a male. There is no arguing with biological facts and figures in this context. However, having stated that, it is al...

part of his micro-manipulation of Noras behavior. For example, he jokingly calls her his "Miss Sweet Tooth" as he grills her about...

believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that ...

how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her...

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...

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...

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

of this era, stereotyping the average female as prone to "hysterical" nervous disorders and the entire gender as "economically a n...

In seven pages this paper is written from the point of view of a person who attempted suicide despite family members' belligerance...

In five pages the images of time and place are explored in 'The White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett, 'My Antonia' by Willa Cather, '...

In five pages this paper discusses how in The Yellow Wallpaper the storyteller reflects author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Three so...

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

and brother, "If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing th...

In six pages this paper examines the theme of insanity as portrayed in Gilman's story. Ten other sources are cited in the bibliog...

The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...

In five pages this paper examines the nightmare states evoked by hallucinogenic symbolism in these two works that blur the line be...

relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

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...

A 6 page essay that discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which continues to capture and fasci...

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...

and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depress...

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...

have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...

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 ...