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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...

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

In seven pages this paper is written from the point of view of a person who attempted suicide despite family members' belligerance...

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

In six pages this paper considers such literary works as Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Whi...

which occurred in the 1730s and 1740s. It was during those few decades in which we emerged as a religiously based and religiously ...

ABC-TV news found itself in hot water by reporting that Israels Benjamin Netanyahu had called then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin a ...

honesty, no such thing for anyone. She seeks happiness in many avenues of pursuit but she may well be unrealistic in all she pursu...

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

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beyond the domestic sphere into virtually every profession and job category from which they were once barred, they have had to con...

The two greatest challenges faced in respect to gender roles is the use of the binary system and discrimination against women, and...

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

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

This paper of 7 pages chronicle's the female protagonist's descent into madness due to the oppression of the patriarchy and its in...

who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...

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

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 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...