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The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...

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...

A section from this story is analyzed and then considered within the whole story's context in a paper consisting of five pages. T...

A paper which argues that although Gilman's narrative is primarily concerned with the oppression of women leading to mental deteri...

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 this paper examines the nightmare states evoked by hallucinogenic symbolism in these two works that blur the line be...

a supposed "cure" for her depressed symptoms, becomes, in fact, the catalyst to -2- her entire mental downfall. She h...

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 ...

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...

have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...

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

world that she is a success. This character then stands as a powerful example of women from that era who were given few choices b...

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

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

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

She is never allowed any control over her environment or her circumstances. Her opinions are always discounted by her husband. Whe...

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls...

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

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...

so much time to be bored. Jewett writes: "Sylvia had all the time there was, and very little use to make of it" (759). Sylvia wa...

This paper is on "yellow journalism" and "muckraking," which are styles of journalism that were popular in the late nineteenth/ear...

have learned to "fly" and to "sing," that is, that they have become responsible adults, capable of living and contributing to soci...

the Apostles in the Bible helps us realize that nearly a generation passed before the events of Jesus life were recorded into the ...

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....

world with it" (Morrison PG). Morrison shows how overcoming stereotypical racial images is not an easy accomplishment in Pecolas...