John Ames Mitchell

Joy Harjo’s poem “New Orleans” paints a painted picture of a woman struggling to find the remaining fragments of her culture throughout history and the city where she resides. In her remarks on her memories and stories, Harjo constantly uses images related to progress and analogies involving money and the pursuit of wealth which lead to the ultimate decay of the Creek’s culture and community. Harjo first writes about “a shop with ivory and knives” (13). Perhaps related to a economic analysis…

The Miracle Worker, written by William Gibson, is a nonfiction play written in 1957. The play is based off of the life of Helen Keller, who was diagnosed being blind and deaf at a young age, due to an illness. When Helen was about the age of six, the Kellers higher a teacher named Anne Sullivan, who was hired to teach Helen language by Captain Keller. Having been blind before, Anne had much experience and motivation to teach Helen. After many surgeries, Anne was in fact able to see, just not…

I.INTRODUCTION Katherine Anne Porter was an American writer who was born in 1890 and died in 1980. She was one of the the America’s most distinguished writers. She generally chose dark themes such as dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil. She began her literary career with publishing short stories and essays. ‘’Maria Concepcion’’ was her first published story in The Century Magazin in 1922. She published her bestselling novel Ship of Fools in 1964. Her literary…

A Rose for Emily and The Yellow Wallpaper are similar to each other. These stories both take place in the same era which is when men are the more powerful and orders woman around. In both “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman experience struggles within their society throughout their respective stories. In “ A Rose for Emily” her father is very demanding and very dominant to emily. As in “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator is ordered…

In ‘Ma’s anxiety in Emma Donologue’s Room’, Himmah Sofiana Mursyidah talks about the psychological make-up of Jack’s mother. She draws unbreakable ties between Sigmund Freud’s concepts of Id, Ego and Superego and anxiety. She believes that Ma’s anxiety is the direct result of the traumatic, past experiences. She further illustrates how being imprisoned in the room affect the mental state of Ma, making her believe in impossibility of escaping from Old Nick. By keeping her son in the dark about…

Kate Chopin's allegory 'Story of an Hour' captures the social restraints imposed upon women in the late 19th century, detailing the struggle for female independence and freedom. Utilizing both direct and indirect characterization, Chopin's short story contains themes of societal repression of women, emancipation from the patriarchy and the pursuit of liberty, and the perils of marriage and monogamy. Chopin's use of a myriad of literary techniques such as imagery and repetition highlight the…

writer. She had views that middle class women were enslaved by “masculisnist” ideas of domesticity. (Perkins, 64) After experiencing what could be described today as post partum depression, she sought the help of a prominent doctor named S. Weir Mitchell. His treatment was the norm for those days, which called for no intellectual stimulation, lots of food, and complete rest (Perkins, 62). With that treatment it was no surprise that a woman such as herself was driven to near madness. The great…

restrained, similar to how the author is during daylight. As night falls the woman behind the wallpaper is alive and determined to shake the bars to freedom. The author is much alive at night like the woman because she suppresses her activity while John is near. The woman in the wallpaper is a symbol of not only the mental state of the author but the freedom she craves to have. The contrast between daytime with its restrictions and nighttime with its freedoms are symbolized by the alternating…

She is the inner sorrow of Savitri’s mind. Savitri goes beyond, to reach and listen to her mind and in the real world of sorrow. Savitri is in her way towards a complete transformation. She is in her inner suffering that leads her towards the mental change of her psychic soul. As she recounts her the various forms in which she works is not only the way she leads her life but she is the ordinary mind of human suffering; an ordinary lady of the world with full of sorrow and pain. Also the Mother…

Writing often reflects an author’s own experiences. In her short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman does this by showing the shortcomings of Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell’s rest treatment through Jane, the narrator of the story. She reveals how this treatment leads to mental deterioration and eventual insanity. Gilman further reinforces this idea through her response to her short story, titled “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’” which gives evidence that Gilman uses the narrator…