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In seven pages this paper is written from the point of view of a person who attempted suicide despite family members' belligerance...
The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...
of this era, stereotyping the average female as prone to "hysterical" nervous disorders and the entire gender as "economically a n...
In five pages this paper examines the nightmare states evoked by hallucinogenic symbolism in these two works that blur the line be...
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...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her...
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...
in pay and in intimate relationships, is a fundamental part of feminist thinking; it is equality in personal relationships that wi...
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 ...
and brother, "If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing th...
In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...
a male, well, a male. There is no arguing with biological facts and figures in this context. However, having stated that, it is al...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...
believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that ...
life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in followin...
This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...
room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...
Ushers ultimate fall. "[The house had] an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from t...
stupor, Montressor begins to wall him in...alive. As Fortunato begins to sober up and realize what is going on he begins to scream...
that it was like an "after-dream of the reveller upon opium...an iciness, a sinking a sickening of the heart" (Fall of the House.....
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...
in this depression she begins to see things in this wallpaper, a patterned wallpaper, that essentially symbolizes her sense of ent...