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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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, ...

reside," with the house representative or symbolic of the society as a whole (Goloversic). If we picture the house as society we ...

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

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...

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...

in this depression she begins to see things in this wallpaper, a patterned wallpaper, that essentially symbolizes her sense of ent...

In six pages the social treatment of women is examined within the context of this story in an exploration of plot, characterizatio...

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...

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

and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) co...