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In five pages Gilman's story and Gardner's novel are compared and contrasted with the focus being upon the protagonist's position ...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

This paper of 7 pages chronicle's the female protagonist's descent into madness due to the oppression of the patriarchy and its in...

call on the point of her physician-husband (Brooks ppg) The narrator tells us: "John is a physician, and perhaps--(I would not sa...

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

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

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...

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...

who finds themself trapped with a, almost willingly, woman going insane. Twains "Huckleberry Finn" takes the reader with him along...

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

In five pages 19th century marriage and the woman's role within it are examined in a comparison of Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an ...

In five pages this paper examines how social conflict is reflected in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Charlotte P...

This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...

In six pages this paper considers such literary works as Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Whi...

saved by a friend and turned to writing which greatly changed her entire perspective, giving her "some measure of power" (Gilman [...

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

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

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

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

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...

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