Charlotte

In Frank Stockton’s “The Lady or the Tiger” and Charlotte Stetson’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the protagonist is forced to conform to the society in which she lives. In “The Lady or the Tiger,” the king’s daughter must endure her father’s harsh laws, and watch as her lover is thrown into an arena, forced to randomly choose a fate: a life married to a beautiful woman, or a terrifying death by tiger. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the main character struggles with post- partum depression. Her…

Wallpaper is a story that Charlotte Perkins Gilman published in 1892. Over the course of the story, the main character, a woman who’s already mildly unstable, is driven to insanity by the supposed ‘treatment’ her husband, a respected doctor, prescribes for her instability. After looking over the story, one can figure out why her husband forces this obviously ineffective treatment upon her and doesn’t listen when told it simply makes the issues worse. According to Charlotte herself, at the time…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a writer ahead of her time. Both of her famous short stories “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Turned” deal with the relationships between husbands and wives, but that is where the similarities end. “The Yellow Wallpaper” deals with a woman completely overshadowed by her husband and the men around her. “Turned” tells the story of a woman standing up for herself and separating from the male figure in her life. The stories show two very different sides of a relationship.…

Throughout the entirety of time, people have always communicated in different ways. However, these methods were not always beneficial to their relationships. Occasionally, there is a lack of communication, such as in Mrs. Spring Fragrance. There is miscommunication, for example, between Alida Slade and Grace Ansley in Roman Fever. Also, there is one-sided communication, such as in the Yellow Wallpaper. People have to figure out a way to resolve these communication issues to maintain healthy…

In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte challenges the stereotypes and roles expected of women at the time by demonstrating abilities that men, as well as society do not expect her to have. Jane possesses qualities that are considered masculine according to the Victorian era such as thinking for herself and standing up to her values even when it means defying societal expectations of a female’s place. She ultimately overcomes the oppression of the male gaze that once limited her by dismissing these…

becomes a relationship. Depending on the intensity of the connection, the relationship strength would vary. Nevertheless, love is felt by all people. It is a universal feeling that is interpreted differently from one to another. More specifically, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an author and poet, experienced love much differently than most others. Gilman was born on July 3, 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, she was a writer and a social activist for women’s…

Brocklehurst is the contradicting overseer of the institution and causes emotional distraught towards Jane, whereas Miss Temple motivates Jane with "precept and example" (180). Mr. Brocklehurst is a man who made a point to have nothing nice given to the Lowood students (including proper food and water), while later allowing his wife and children to visit the school decked out in glamorous attire. His overall hypocritical and mean spirit limited Jane in believing in not only herself, but also in…

At the end of the novel, she burns Thornfield to the ground, putting Mr. Rochester in the position to finally be able to marry the novels protagonist, Jane Eyre. The author of the novel, Charlotte Bronte, describes her as. “[Bertha is] mad; and she came of a mad family; idiots and maniacs through three generations. (Bronte 26). Her husband, Mr. Rochester keeps her locked in the attic due to her “instability.” However, due to the Victorian…

In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses her personal life to create a fictional narrative about the treatment of women in late 1800’s, mental illnesses in the 1800’s along with how far the human mind can go before it snaps. Why does Charlotte Perkins Gilman expose her life through the lines of her story? She wrote this story to show how the yellow wallpaper itself represents the isolation of women. Gilman displays this by indirectly stating a women’s position in…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an important feminist writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1892, Gilman published “Yellow Wallpaper” in the New England Magazine. It was written to address and acknowledge societal treatment of women’s mental and physical health. During the time of publication, the “domestic ideology” placed women in a position of spiritual and moral leadership that gave them control over household duties such as cooking, cleaning, and caring for the children, while…