Anthony Perkins

The “Yellow Wallpaper” is about a woman who suffers from post-partum depression which leads to her being isolated in her room that drives her insane. The “Yellow Wallpaper” that she hated so much became a significant symbol. A symbol of the domestic life that trapped so many women back then. The “Yellow Wallpaper” also represented the structure of her family. One of the points of the story is to show women struggling with their individualities during her time period. It shows how women were…

Joy Harjo’s poem “New Orleans” paints a painted picture of a woman struggling to find the remaining fragments of her culture throughout history and the city where she resides. In her remarks on her memories and stories, Harjo constantly uses images related to progress and analogies involving money and the pursuit of wealth which lead to the ultimate decay of the Creek’s culture and community. Harjo first writes about “a shop with ivory and knives” (13). Perhaps related to a economic analysis…

This paper aims to analyze how both Tagore and Narayan sought to reform the Indian society of their time by portraying bold and dynamic women characters in their fiction. Tagore portrayed the character of Charulata as a self- motivated woman in the story entitled The Ruined Nest while R.K Narayan described the character of Rosie as a vibrant and passionate woman in The Guide. Both the writers chose to portray the character of bold woman nonetheless of the perspective of Indian society on women.…

Susanna Kaysen’s book, Girl, Interrupted, is an amazing piece of literature that tells the story of the two years she spent at McLean Hospital. Kaysen depicts the theme of confusion between freedom and captivity through her experience at McLean Hospital to show how one cannot be found without the other. While questioning the difference between non-conforming and being crazy, Susanna Kaysen also allows the readers to question themselves and their ideas of normality. The use of literary elements,…

Edward Said declares exile to be a terrible, but also enriching, experience. Inherently, this seems paradoxical -- after all, how can something be both abhorrent and empowering? In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, the titular character suffers this kind of isolation from society, and through her isolation develops both a deep desire for human companionship and a fierce independence, and is then forced to grapple with her two incompatible desires. In the beginning of the novel, it is immediately…

The Living Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story telling the struggles of a new mother fighting within herself for her freedom and independence. At the center of the story is a narrator who remains anonymous until the end of the story. At the end Gilman will “force readers to reconsider Jane’s entire narrative by means of the story’s conclusion, when Jane finally speaks her own name for the first time as she creeps over her husband’s inert body”…

The Hidden Love Behind Guilt Draft In the novel Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg, Greenberg’s daughter, Sally, experiences a psychotic breakdown. The novel tells the story of her illness and how it affects her family, especially her father. The psychosis Sally faces bring feelings of guilt to Greenberg because he believes he is the reason this illness has come upon her. In a situation so foreign and wrought with emotion Greenberg feels an immense amount of guilt for putting Sally in…

The Miracle Worker, written by William Gibson, is a nonfiction play written in 1957. The play is based off of the life of Helen Keller, who was diagnosed being blind and deaf at a young age, due to an illness. When Helen was about the age of six, the Kellers higher a teacher named Anne Sullivan, who was hired to teach Helen language by Captain Keller. Having been blind before, Anne had much experience and motivation to teach Helen. After many surgeries, Anne was in fact able to see, just not…

I.INTRODUCTION Katherine Anne Porter was an American writer who was born in 1890 and died in 1980. She was one of the the America’s most distinguished writers. She generally chose dark themes such as dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil. She began her literary career with publishing short stories and essays. ‘’Maria Concepcion’’ was her first published story in The Century Magazin in 1922. She published her bestselling novel Ship of Fools in 1964. Her literary…

The Yellow Wallpaper are similar to each other. These stories both take place in the same era which is when men are the more powerful and orders woman around. In both “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman experience struggles within their society throughout their respective stories. In “ A Rose for Emily” her father is very demanding and very dominant to emily. As in “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator is ordered around by her husband…