YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Jane Eyre and The Yellow Wallpaper in Respect to Haunting
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this passage from Jane Eyre, Bronte seems to be making a statement about self worth. What has precipitated this passage is that a ...
her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...
the two female characters who interacted in literature with Edward Rochester, one notices differences - and similarities - in thei...
bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls pride to her aid; desires her attendant to deck her in her brightest jewels and richest ...
For example, when Oliver is arrested, he is never allowed to state his case or to speak, for that matter. Oliver becomes sick when...
sway over the human condition. She sees the futility of forging an alliance with Linton, while at the same time knowing that she a...
keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring...
she receives by her cousins, John in particular: "John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me. ...
women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; th...
the time who had attended anything remotely resembling one (as Charlotte Bront? herself had), the abuses struck a chord of familia...
my aunt shut me up in the red-room", Jane receives only comments that she should feel very lucky about living in such a fine home ...
Clearly, these elements all preside in Jane Eyre and also in Bleak House. Combining the efforts of these books, we have the haunt...
specifically, it was an obsession as opposed to true love. What distinguishes these from each other is the element of personal sa...
sources on this topic in order to see if the literary view represents an accurate picture. The home and the marketplace were not...
it will, it is indebted to him" (xi-xii). Charlotte Bronte believed that religious attitudes fell into two distinct categories -...
relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...
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...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
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 ...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
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 ...
really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency--what is one to do? My brother i...
In five pages, the author's employment of voice, imagery, and gender themes are considered....
In six pages the social treatment of women is examined within the context of this story in an exploration of plot, characterizatio...
This 10 page essay analyzes the characters presented by Faulkner and Gilman. The author of this essay contends that each of these...