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into insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In h...

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...

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...

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

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

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

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

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

video rental stores. Conventional wisdom says that in starting a new business, it is necessary to find something new that has at ...

This paper compares Charlotte Bronte's heroine of Villette with Jane Austen's heroine of Persuasion. It discusses the roles of the...

This 6 page paper explores the status of women in the Victorian era by examining the way they are presented in three Hardy novels,...

In five pages the significance of Edna to the novella by Kate Chopin and how she symbolically represents Victorian women's desire ...

In five pages this paper presents an analysis of this short story in terms of how imagery, similes, foreshadowing and parallelism ...

of a woman reader, conventionally prim from the waist up, but with her stockinged legs arranged in the position of a side saddle r...

This six page paper considers the societal roles expected of Victorian women. John Stewart Mill, Tennyson, and Elizabeth Gaskell ...

In five pages the hypocrisy of advice and attitudes in America during the Victorian era pertaining to women's sexuality is discuss...

police and the criminal justice system as well as voluntary workers and professional helpers (van Dijk, 2002). Prior to 1970, v...

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

values, and sin versus redemption. The cycle of Pips life illustrates how Pip went from being an innocent boy, into being an arrog...

The underclass practically disappeared (1995). While this is the case, one has to understand how gender played a part in comprehe...

era was a time of cultural renewal that saw significant declines in crime and social vices ("The Big," 1998). She also notes that ...

of their physical, biological and social milieu, and how we respond is governed by genetic make-up" (pp. 44-45). Postpartum-relat...

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the play Trifles and how it relates to the rights of women at the time. This paper includes...

In five pages this paper discusses how women's sexuality is represented in this nineteenth century novel and then contrasts it to ...

that females should function in subordinate and often demeaning roles in comparison with men (Readers Companion to American Histor...

on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...

raises this pig in a somewhat happy atmosphere until he is too big and he must go live on a nearby farm. On that farm Wilbur lea...