YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Gender Issues in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Essays 121 - 150
In five pages this report discusses Gilman's 1915 novel in terms of tis feminist aspects and the situations that either suppressed...
In 7 pages this paper examines how the 'double' or Doppelganger theme is featured in the Edgar Allan Poe stories William Wilson, '...
close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...
In five pages this paper discusses how the American experience defines gender relationships in a comparative analysis of these two...
was lived during her time. Her work deals a large amount with the oppressiveness women felt within their married lives and their d...
that females should function in subordinate and often demeaning roles in comparison with men (Readers Companion to American Histor...
A paper which discusses the life, work and theories of the writer Charlotte Gilman, and looks specifically at the role of feminism...
the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...
In two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...
In five pages this paper analyzes Poe's use of symbols in this short story. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
In five pages this 1839 tale is revealed to represent many of the experiences and attitudes of the author. Five sources are cited...
In five pages this paper examines how sense, characters, and event are connected by Edgar Allan Poe through dualism and literary p...
In three pages a synopsis of this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe is presented. There are no other sources cited....
In five pages 'reader response theory' is applied to this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Four sources are cited in the bi...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...
of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...
of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...
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...
nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...
A paper which takes a personal perspective on Gilman's classic text. Gilman presents a Utopia populated entirely by women, in a na...
wallpaper. The wallpaper can be said to have a dual symbolism. The wallpaper itself can be said to be representative of her mind....
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
it does not suggest that the reader become formally involved with the story. She (or he) need only read and "listen" to Gilmans wo...
"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...
both the other woman and herself. She tells her shocked husband, who faints when he sees her creeping around the wall, that she ha...
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...