YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Women of the Nineteenth Century in Stories by Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Essays 151 - 180
living arrangements (Clinton & Barker-Benfield, 1998). In fact, a student writing on this subject notes that these women were call...
contention that it was in the 1890s when social change would be rampant and that this change would be reflected time and time agai...
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 "...
insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every art...
well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...
women and have no true knowledge of what life is like in a society with two sexes. These men fall in love, and eventually are kick...
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...
in this depression she begins to see things in this wallpaper, a patterned wallpaper, that essentially symbolizes her sense of ent...
into insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In h...
narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls...
In five pages this report discusses Gilman's 1915 novel in terms of tis feminist aspects and the situations that either suppressed...
In six pages the social treatment of women is examined within the context of this story in an exploration of plot, characterizatio...
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 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 the significance of Edna to the novella by Kate Chopin and how she symbolically represents Victorian women's desire ...
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...
The cultural bias against education for women was so severe in the eighteenth century that Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), note...
in 1892, tells the story of a woman who is diagnosed with a psychological disorder and is subjected to the prevailing treatments o...
this argument we see that the giant is the handicapped child. The entire town is frightened of him because he is a giant. He does ...
the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...
the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...
In many ways, as the story progresses, the reader essentially forgets her heart condition. But, if one keeps this in mind one can ...
and pure joy was leaping in her being and she was perhaps experiencing a very subtle and simple joy at life itself, something that...