Charlotte Brontë

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, the demeaning relationship between the alpha husband and the mentally ill wife demonstrates how the majority of women were treated in the late nineteen hundreds. The main idea of the short story comes from Gilman’s own personal experiences and are portrayed through the way the wife is treated in the story. The husband is manipulative and controlling throughout her life, and the manipulation only increases as her health begins to…

The protagonist, Susanna Kaysen, is examined in multiple ways. In the movie, she is diagnosed as having Borderline Personality Disorder. Most people diagnosed with this disorder seem to been unstable in many aspects of life. Susanna comes from a white upper middle class family, where during the 1960’s many pressures were put onto Susanna, such as going to college, and acting in a certain ideal manner. The pressures untimely caused her to have serious self identity and esteem problems because she…

The Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Stetson is told from the perspective of the narrator and her secret diary. The narrator is a young, upper-middle-class woman, newly married and a mother, who is undergoing care for depression. Her lifestyle seems to change after the birth of her baby when she thinks she is sick, but other people think she might be mad. Her inferiority to her husband is seen when she is faced with certain problems, obsession with the wallpaper effects her…

outcomes to make each story unique in its own way. Just like human beings, we all have most of the same organs yet the DNA in each of our bodies is different, thus being able to tell one individual apart from another. In the Yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, all share a specific time frame in which they were written. The 19th century time frame plays an important part of all these short stories which…

Beyond Genetics (Karen Horney’s Views on the Psychological Differences Between Men and Women) Imagine you’re in the delivery room, prepared to give birth for the first time. You’re expecting fraternal twins; Hazel and Harvey. From the time that they are born into this world and each year that they age, you have to learn and adjust to each of their needs. When they are an infant, to toddler, teenager and then adult raising both your twins is a challenge due to their different genders. It’s not…

In Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo, Juan goes to Comala to find his father, Pedro. Pedro had an intimate relationship a girl who he forced to leave her family to be with him. As Pedro and Susana’s marriage proceeds, Susana begins to demonstrate signs that she is mentally unstable. The controlling of Susana’s life by other men reveals that mental instability is the only escape from a patriarchal society. After Susana leaves Comala, she marries Florencio, who soon dies. Susana is then forced into an…

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is one of the earlier feminist pieces regarding women’s health in the 19th century. Set in a large manor left untenanted. The potentially unnamed first person narrator struggles with being isolated and restrained from everyday life. The protagonist for the large part is left in an old children’s room, with the bed chained to the floor, bars in the window, and vexing yellow wallpaper. There she rests, and waits to get better. As her mental…

This first person narrator describes the present tense of her situation in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper. Trapped in a world of pre-feminism upheaval, where the notion of her sanity is never questioned--only defined by the authoritative men in her life i.e. her husband and brother. The yellow wallpaper, mentioned in this story, symbolizes the confinements of her life--the imprisonment of her own mind. But she forced a recognition of change, she saw it in the moonlight and…

The protagonist conflict is a conflict that can easily be explain. First of all, the protagonist is the person being treated so she have to do what she is told, just like how I have to follow what my doctor tell me to follow. More importantly, she is a woman and women are not given the same rights as men back in the 18th and early 19th century. “ He said there was only one window...He is very careful and loving, and hardly let me stir without special direction. I have scheduled...; he takes care…

Life was hard for the men at sea as well as for the women back home, because of the distances set upon them due to the voyages that lasted two to three years, the men were out at sea. Many young men as young as fourteen years old, from Nantucket, idolized the Essex and dreamed of becoming one of the whale hunters aboard the vessels.Although the Essex might not look like much being stripped from her rigging and all, many saw the vessel as opportunity, especially Thomas Nickerson who was eager…