John Ames Mitchell

The scariest experiences can make the most important impacts. In “Prisoner of Tehran”, Marina Nemat utilizes setting and quotes to convey her many challenges that someone at her age should have never encountered. These challenges triggered memories of her earlier childhood before being arrested. In 246, Marina experienced discomfort and fear. In the different prison she met Taraneh and got to see her old friend Sarah. 246 did not have enough room for all the prisoners. “During the time of the…

‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a fine example of how a narrator can use language to mirror their own state of mind. Throughout this story both intentional and unintentional hints are given which give us an insight into the female narrator’s psyche. The language in this story changes throughout. In the beginning of this short story about a woman who is suffering from a severe mental illness, the narrator’s thoughts are fluid and her speech is very much controlled. However,…

angry trying to help her, yet the story demonstrates how recognized protocols of behavior can have a shocking effect the lady of Gilman 's period, paying little mind to the goals of the purveyor. Through the late 20th century standards, the conduct of John, the spouse, appears to be shockingly restrictive and inappropriate, however, was considered very ordinary in the nineteenth…

The Heroine and the Heist It seems like time is ticking in slow motion. Alarms are ringing in my ear. Tiffany and Co is going into lockdown. “We need to take the dosh and run!” screams my partner in crime, Rob, from behind the front counter. I turn to see my reflection in one of many glass cases. The world stops as I realise the criminal who I have become. There’s no going back to my previous life. “Now!” screams Rob. I swing my crowbar into the glass. SMASH! Glass shatters into a million…

The definition unreliability is the inability to be relied upon or trusted. In these three stories: "Strawberry Spring" and "Tell Tale Heart" written by Stephen King and The "Yellow Wallpaper" written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman all three narrators are unreliable due to various mental illnesses. The narrators of The "Yellow Wallpaper" is a mentally ill woman who was living in a bedroom like prison cell. From the woman being so bored and trapped in her room, it had made her mentally ill so she…

The case study I am analyzing is ‘To Thine Own Self be True’: On the Loss of Integrity as a Kind of Suffering’ by Henri Wijsbek. This case study centers around a Dutch psychiatrist that assisted a 50-year-old woman in suicide, despite her lacking clinical presentations of any physical or psychiatric condition. It also explores how the patient’s loss of integrity or volitional incapacity can be characterized as a hallmark of suffering. One of the major aspects at play is decisional competency.…

The story of the essay I have chosen to discuss is ¨The Yellow Wallpaper¨ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The reason why I have chosen this story as part of my topic of discussion is because of the story's impact on a character who portrays her prison mentally and emotionally. The feeling of the prison becoming a wall that she finds unable to escape. Knowing that no matter what she plans to do, there’s no way out. However, the protagonist seeing a symbol of hope that she can break the chains that…

from society because of illness, while she tells him that she is fine. This the symbolic for the women in the 1900’s that were struggling for equality. From them being ignored and oppressed by men. In the story, john isn’t allowing his wife to be able to fix herself and get better. “But John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition”. This shows that when women try to get free and be something else the men oppress over them and take control. During the nineteenth century,…

tale about a woman who loses her mind, but little do they know that there is much more to just all the symbols of insanity but also the theme of gender division in the Nineteenth century. Firstly, the yellow wallpaper reveals a gender division between John and his wife due to his ignorance towards her. John’s superiority towards his career as a physician causes him to misjudge his wife only to help her or so he thinks he's helping her. She is forced to hide her fears in…

been from someone else’s crawling trying to escape. In the beginning she thought it was another woman, so she wanted to prove to her husband that she could capture her. She became frustrated, but she could not jump out the window because it had bars. John fainted because he thought his cure worked, but in reality, she was in a bad condition. Instead of her helping him up, she kept creeping around the room. She was free once she destroyed the hideous yellow wallpaper off the…