Charlotte Brontë

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.…

Allyson L. Masciotti-Hamedl and Kevin Hamedl, from Poughquag, N.Y., which is located in Dutchess County, N.Y. have a lawsuit against Disney Vacation Development Inc. They state that a bed bug infestation ruined their stay at Disney's Vero Beach resort in Florida. Continuing on, they mention suffering from physical and emotional distress for several months afterwards. Their lawsuit is seeking damages of between $100,000 and $1 million. It states Disney failed to “exercise reasonable care and…

Freedom "She would not join the groups in their sports and bouts, but intoxicated with her newly conquered power, she swam out alone,"(Chopin 10) Edna's awakening truly begins within the waters when she realizes that she has the strength to surpass the boundaries she has made for herself. "You have been a very, very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontellier's possessions to dispose of or…

When thinking of bad mental habits, is obsession something that comes to mind? In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, and Tim O’Brien’s’ “The Things They Carried” obsession is an underlying theme that drives all these stories. Obsession can be a confusing thing that many people face daily, as these characters did; reading about someone with obsession can give a lot of insight on people who are insane and how they’re handling the situation.…

Primary Source Assignment Wing Yiu Tsang November 10, 2015 Hist 173 Migrant Mother Series The resource “Migrant Mother Series” conveys the message of difficulties of poor migrants during Great Depression. The images were captured at a migrant farmworker camp in Nipomo, California, in 1936. The woman in the picture was a thirty-two-year-old mother of seven children. She was an underprivileged migrant moving from her home in Oklahoma to follow the crops in the Golden State. This migrant mother and…

Florence Kelley conveys her opinion about child labor by using mutiple rhetorical strategies. She uses appeal to emotions, repeation, and sarcasm to to emphasize how terrible child labor is. Kelley uses appeal to emotions to make the readers have sympathy toward these children. She stated, “Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills all the night through…” Kelley explains how while we are sleeping several thousand girls are working all night. While we…

interactions and occupations within the public sphere The women against this status quo remained voiceless. Commonly their frustrations with the unequal society structure was commonly expressed through writing. In both Lee Smith’s Dimestore and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The…

Source II: Wallace, Shana. “Beyond Imminence: Evolving International Law and Battered Women's Right to Self-Defense.” The University of Chicago Law Review, vol. 71, no. 4, 2004, pp. 1749–1781. In this article author, Wallace objects to the use of battered woman syndrome as a self-defense. Wallace also explains that as of 2004, battered woman syndrome statistically is the most widely used self-defense plea by abused women who kill their attackers. She provides two major criticisms on…

Women during the Victorian Era experienced some brutal battles, similar to those expressed in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” and Elizabeth Browning’s “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti both present the themes, the cruelty of women and the necessity of family’s love to thoroughly describe their hardships and braveness for one another. Rossetti’s character encounters assault to aid her sister out of depression, while Browning’s kills…