John Ames Mitchell

Plath’s poetry here, could be related to image of the “bell jar” by her contemporary researcher. The same stifling environment. Esther Greenwood, another of Plath’s heroines in her autobiographical novel , that narrates Plath’s twentieth year of her life, feels as though she is trapped “blank and stopped as a dead baby” (1972; 265). This image reminds one of the bottled foetus preserved in the laboratories. By the end of the poem, the mother is stripped of all humanity, when the speaker…

Literature is writings in which expression and form, about ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays (“literature”). In literature, there are always literary terms included in the readings. Literary Terms are structures, writers use them in their work to convey their message in a way the readers can understand. There are many different literary terms, like setting, conflict, climax resolution, etc.……

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.…

Archer, Seth. ""I had a Terror": Emily Dickinson's Demon." Southwest Review 94.2 (2009): 255-74. ProQuest. Web. 21 Apr. 2016. This work by Archer is centered around Dickinson's life whilst directly addressing her depression and suggesting she also may have had a panic disorder. Unlike all my other sources, this source is written more like a biography and gives insight less to her work and more to her life. The piece is written because of Dickinson's admittance to having "a terror" that she…

place just to find a home but never found one. At age twenty-four, she married Charles Stetson after studying art and become an art teacher in some time. When they both had a child together, Charlotte got depressed in 1885. In the 1870's, S. Weir Mitchell, who evolved a cure for female nervous disorders and urged her husband to be Mitchell's patient. It didn’t go well for Charlotte as she fled Mitchell's care and her husband in California. As she took upon herself, she translated her experience…

In the novel “Behind the Scenes at a Museum,” Kate Atkinson uses a range of different language, literary devices and style to create a sense of loss, grieving and discordance throughout the extract, by displaying the impact of the death of Gillian on the rest of the family. She creates this atmosphere by her uses of symbolism and imagery which she uses to convey the brokenness and disorder of the Lennox household, after Gillian’s death, which she portrays from the eyes of a young child called…

“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people” (Martin Luther King, Jr.). This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr has proven to carry throughout history and possibly well into the future as seen in the novels, Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Each author wrote a unique novel, with one thing in common, the main characters, along with the…

hysteria was seen in both men and women, but mainly women, and was understood in many ways under the research of S. Weir Mitchell, other prominent nineteenth-century doctors, and in “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Silas Weir Mitchell was an…

Throughout human time, women have been oppressed by society. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, The Yellow Wallpaper, the first-person narrative vividly describes the struggles of a nineteenth-century woman suffering with a mental illness and her decent into a mind-numbing insanity. The narrator’s madness is ultimately caused by the oppressive structures of society that woman in the nineteenth-century faced. Her marriage to her husband leaves the narrator confined to typical nineteenth-century…

Have you ever experienced an event that seemed to go beyond the laws of nature? Has a particular location ever sparked an eerie feeling of uncertainty within you? In Charlotte Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, a female narrator lives in a rundown colonial mansion with her husband. As the story progresses, signs of her loss of composure become evident and it becomes increasingly more difficult to explain the events that occur. By the end of the narrative, the narrator losses herself…