Charlotte Anita Whitney

manner as he goes against the conformity of life in the humdrum neighborhood of Pittsburgh, where he resides. The study of Paul 's temperament digs deep into the psyche and depicts how an inimical social atmosphere can deteriorate the human mind. Charlotte Perkins Gilman 's, "The Yellow Wallpaper", is a cynical tale compiled from a collection of journal entries in which, a woman suffering from manic depression catalogs her descent into madness, and probable suicide. The woman presents herself as…

In both Victorian and contemporary literature the subordination of women leads to the breakdown of mental stability due to the patriarchal society and the social pressures that are attached. In who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf, Albee’s use of symbolic elements is given contemporary edge by the presence of social issues. Thus, as a parallel to the failure of communication within marriage there is a division created between the lifestyles of the two couples. The only way for George and Martha to…

I visited the Getty museum in Los Angeles. My favorite piece at the Getty is actually a pair of oil paintings by Abraham Solomon (1857). Both Waiting for the Verdict and Not guilty capture the emotions before and after the announcement of a Victorian man’s verdict. In the first piece, Waiting for the Verdict, Solomon illustrates an array of emotions that reflect the moment. In the lower left of the painting, a remorseful man sits with his head in his hands while his body leans forward,…

Susannah Cahalan’s memoir, Brain On Fire, conveys her journey and struggle through a detrimental disease, in which she loses significant aspects of her core identity. The memoir exemplifies the theme that loss of identity yields self discovery, concentrating primarily on how her experiences shaped the progression of her life before and after her disease. When creating the found poem, I wanted to focus the ideas around Susannah’s struggle for her identity. I utilized repetition with the phrase,…

Mildred Montag is the not-so-loving wife of Guy Montag, and the epitome of the average person in society. She’s obsessed with technology to the point where it’s unhealthy constantly watching television, and when she’s not, she has her earphones (“seashells”) in, listening to the radio. Her time is mostly spent in the “parlour”, a room filled with three wall-sized television screens. In fact, Mildred spends so much of her time in the parlour, utterly mesmerized by her TV screens, that she…

One of the five stages of grief is denial. It is widely shown in literature. The common theme between The Scarlet Letter and “The Yellow Wall-paper” is not being able to accept the truth. In The Scarlet Letter, Mr. Dimmesdale has hard time accepting the fact that he committed a sin and in “The Yellow Wall-paper”, the narrator doesn’t think she is crazy but she is. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mr Dimmesdale struggles accepting or facing that he committed a sin with Hester Prynne.…

Diagnose of lady Macbeth I diagnose lady Macbeth with post-traumatic stress disorder because of the symptoms that I found that describe her and the way she acts. Lady Macbeth show trouble concentrating because of the way she acts and in the movie look like she was scared and shaking. Lady Macbeth be feeling overwhelm because she acts like she doesn’t what she be doing. Then when lady Macbeth was trying to scrub off the blood from her hands and to take away the evidence. When lady Macbeth was…

beginning though, whether it is through an addiction of some sorts or mental illness. The Yellow Wall-Paper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, creates a perception of a woman who is slipping from reality as every waking moment passes by. A wall that the character stares at shifts to where she starts to see a woman stuck within the wall-paper. The woman in the wall-paper, who is she? Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, The Yellow Wall-Paper portrays a woman who feels trapped within her own deteriorating mind,…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and Sarah Kay’s poem, “The Type” were written in different time periods. Both texts discuss contradicting ideas about the role of women in society and ability to express discontentment. (present voice not passive/weird wording) “The Yellow Wallpaper” takes place in a time period when (or where) males dominated society, and women were effectively worthless, dependent of their partner and were also seen as illogical. The text…

In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman, the narrator is going through a nervous depression as she spends summer vacation in a house with her husband and sister-in-law. Even though her husband, John, seems to be taking care of her with good intentions, his means are to control her. Being trapped in her bedroom, she takes notice particularly to the yellow wallpaper in the bedroom. With her imagination running vigorously, and no means of expressing it, she begins to lose touch with reality.…