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This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...
In a paper consisting of eight pages Bierce's mirroring of human and animal characteristics is explored and these traits are compa...
In five pages Gilman's story and Gardner's novel are compared and contrasted with the focus being upon the protagonist's position ...
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 six pages this paper examines the theme of insanity as portrayed in Gilman's story. Ten other sources are cited in the bibliog...
not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...
In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...
and brother, "If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing th...
literature and his father had an impressive library (Ambrose Bierce, 2002). Bierces family was considered to be "sternly religiou...
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...
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...
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...
and for good reason: it is a brilliant account of a womans descent into madness. Because it is handled so realistically, it is utt...
This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...
life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in followin...
how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her...
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...
its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...
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...
such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...
very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...
of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...
been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...
official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...