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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...

to appear more frequently. Eventually she locks herself in her room and tears the paper from the walls (Gilman, 1996; Yim, 1996). ...

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...

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 ...

loves to write, and obviously sneaks off to do because we are reading about it. Writing is her passion and while it is seen as an ...

no nurturing. Neither story has a good ending, but the characters do emerge somewhat enlightened. Candide takes a very differen...

room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...

while the men were away at war. However, this particular battle represented a great deal of change within and among the steadfast...

Accordingly, each parent represents a much-needed entity in the growth of a child: The mother provides stability and sanctity, whi...

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...

"Dont worry your pretty little head about it" and sending her to bed with milk and cookies. He treats her like a child. We also b...

how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her...

is happening to her, but yet she heeds his advice and rules nonetheless because she was a good and dutiful wife. But, she knows sh...

one could present. In Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper her story, which is fictional, is actually based largely on her own experienc...

it does not suggest that the reader become formally involved with the story. She (or he) need only read and "listen" to Gilmans wo...

and for good reason: it is a brilliant account of a womans descent into madness. Because it is handled so realistically, it is utt...

in 1892, tells the story of a woman who is diagnosed with a psychological disorder and is subjected to the prevailing treatments o...

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

to emerge in the stories to be analyzed. The first major theme to emerge in the stories to be analyzed is the effect of power ineq...

developed during this time, as madness was associated with menstruation, pregnancy, and the menopause. The womb itself was deemed ...

believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that ...

saved by a friend and turned to writing which greatly changed her entire perspective, giving her "some measure of power" (Gilman [...

could not remarry (Harmon and Kaufman). Around the "beginning of the common era, Manu ... wrote a seminal compilation of Hindu law...

researcher that suggests that these differences relate as much to socioeconomics as they do to biology. She emphasizes that the i...

men are following a "preset plan" in their search for evidence and are, therefore, convinced at the end of the play that they have...

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...