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to my mind)--perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick!" (Gilman). Because her...
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...
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...
the house that they are staying in, her husband corrects her, saying that what she felt was a draught and he shut the window (Gilm...
and brother, "If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing th...
This paper consists of 5 pages and considers women that did not faithfully follow the rules of the social patriarchy such as the h...
In five pages Gilman's story and Gardner's novel are compared and contrasted with the focus being upon the protagonist's position ...
In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...
literature and his father had an impressive library (Ambrose Bierce, 2002). Bierces family was considered to be "sternly religiou...
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 ...
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 ...
This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...
life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in followin...
In a paper consisting of eight pages Bierce's mirroring of human and animal characteristics is explored and these traits are compa...
This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...
In six pages this paper examines the theme of insanity as portrayed in Gilman's story. Ten other sources are cited in the bibliog...
its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...
Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...
how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her...
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...
as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...
decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...
wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...