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In five pages the images of time and place are explored in 'The White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett, 'My Antonia' by Willa Cather, '...

of this era, stereotyping the average female as prone to "hysterical" nervous disorders and the entire gender as "economically a n...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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, ...

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

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

In six pages this paper examines the theme of insanity as portrayed in Gilman's story. Ten other sources are cited in the bibliog...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...