YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Utopia or Feminism in Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Essays 61 - 90
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, ...
century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...
living arrangements (Clinton & Barker-Benfield, 1998). In fact, a student writing on this subject notes that these women were call...
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 "...
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...
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 ...
into insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In h...
narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls...
She is never allowed any control over her environment or her circumstances. Her opinions are always discounted by her husband. Whe...
In six pages the social treatment of women is examined within the context of this story in an exploration of plot, characterizatio...
In five pages, the author's employment of voice, imagery, and gender themes are considered....
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 ...
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...
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 section from this story is analyzed and then considered within the whole story's context in a paper consisting of five pages. T...
a supposed "cure" for her depressed symptoms, becomes, in fact, the catalyst to -2- her entire mental downfall. She h...
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...
A paper which argues that although Gilman's narrative is primarily concerned with the oppression of women leading to mental deteri...
in terms of political and economic equality. We can also say that political feminism officially began with the suffragette movemen...
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
excitement in the place. It is not necessarily a nurturing environment for one who wants something more out of life than to be a b...
Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...
failure of the Catholic faith to suppress Copernicus. By the start of the...