John N. Mitchell

In the climax of the ending scene, the wife contemplates suicide. The only thing holding her away from free falling is the prison-like bars that block the window. Her condition at this time has been driving her crazy. She grew insane after being kept in the room and not allowed to move out of the room with the vexing wallpaper. Was the diagnosis and treatment of her condition what led her to lose her wits and destroying the wallpaper? During the Victorian Era, examinations of mentally impaired…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman is a story of a woman with a wild imagination as well as a sufferer of post-partum depression. Her husband Jon takes her to another house, to “get better” from her diagnosis of what he believes is hysteria. While she is there she explains her life through a series of journal entries that discuss the downward spiral of the narrator’s experience during the time she is at this house. Throughout her diary there are examples of symbolism, Jon’s treatment…

Another trait that supports the people skills is flexibility. A strong leader doesn’t always want or need to be right, but it is particularly important in areas where people, and their challenges, are the core of your business. The Vice President of Client Services must always be open to dissenting opinions, other ideas and new initiatives as he or she encourages the team to be involved in the development and implementation of suggestions that have the potential to improve the product, the…

marriage which John and the storyteller offer. It is worn, torn, and she doesn 't have the ability to change it. The marriage is additionally based on a relationship that constitutes an onerous spouse, and his aloof wife. The narrator’s "duty"(632) is to be a decent wife; an obligation which she is not able to satisfy. She is caught in a marriage from which she can 't get away. In spite of the fact that she is seen as an inactive lady for she "left it alone"(632), and even submits herself to…

Write’s wife was there. He continues to say “Though I said to Harry that I didn’t know as what his wife, wanted made much difference to John.”(Glaspell 923) “Well, can you beat the women! Held for murder and worryin’ about her preserves.”(Glaspell 924) The county attorney George Henderson remarks to insult Mrs. Write the accused murderer of her husband Mr. John Write. Accompanied by Lewis Hale’s line “Well, woman are used to worrying over Trifles.”(Glaspell 925) implying that women are too dumb…

Insanity changes the way we perceive the people and world around us, in the poem “The Lady of Shalott” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the lady’s developing insanity warps her perception of the land she’s been cursed not to see. Her outlook on her situation darkens as her gripping insanity takes hold of everything she had left. Through cacophony, pathetic fallacy, and repetition it is shown how the lady’s being stuck in her own version of Plato’s allegory of the cave leads her to insanity. Lord…

husband and physician John, and is quite alienated from her own ambiguous illness and simply does what her husband thinks is the best for her. We can see this in many of her thoughts, for example the quote on the very first page “You see John does not believe I am sick! And what can one do?” tells us a lot about the situation. She feels she is not understood, she disagrees with her own treatment, yet she does not protest. And when she eventually does—continuously pleading John to let her move to…

“Neutral Tones” is a poem of failed love written by Thomas Hardy during the year of 1867. It expresses the bitter end of a relationship and the deep rooted feeling of regret. The poem is believed to be written about a woman by the name of Eliza Nicholls, who Hardy met during his first visit to London in 1863 (Bloom 37). “Neutral Tones” includes Hardy’s predictable references to God, gloom, and distaste for a relationship. In the poem, the speaker reminisces about standing next to a pond on a…

Is there a “right” way to parent? The two stories My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult and The Glass by Jeannette Walls are the stories of two very different dysfunctional families. In My Sisters Keeper, the Fitzgerald family’s eldest daughter, Kate, is going through leukemia treatment, while their other daughter Anna, the narrator, was born to donate body parts to Kate. Kate eventually becomes tired of treatment and wishes to die but cannot tell her caring parents that, and she request that Anna…

ABSTRACT: - In this paper I will be dealing with women characters in the novel of Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies. I will focus on the plight of women during the nineteenth century and under colonial rule their condition was even worse. Opium effects life of all women characters directly or indirectly in the novel. I will discuss briefly character of each woman with special focus on Deeti. The character of Paulette daughter of a French botanist living in Calcutta, she respects Indian culture like…