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Analysis and interpretation of Rudyard Kipling’s short story “Lispeth” The short story “Lispeth” is about the Indian Hill-girl Lispeth, who, ever since her parents died of cholera, is a half-servant, half-companion for two Englishmen; a priest and his wife. The story deals with many issues, such as identity crisis and unrequited love, but most of all a critique of Christianity and on the Western mindset towards the natives. The point of view in this short story is a 3rd person point of view…

“Dear Lord, I miss that woman...if she were still alive, I wouldn’t be here...I didn’t stand a chance against the kids. The first time I took a fall, they had it sewn up as quick as you can say Cracker Jack” (Gruen 108). In her novel, Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen explores how nursing homes can have a negative psychological effect on the elderly causing them increased mental health problems. The psychology of nursing home patients has not been widely studied due to poor funding and lack of…

Arian Rivera Ms. Paterson Honors 10 Literature 20 February, 2017 Oppression in The Yellow Wallpaper The story The Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892 depicts a young woman suffering through both oppression and depression. Seen as “a man’s property” during the 19th century. Families could be classified as patriarchal with the me being the breadwinner and the women staying back to tend to normal house duties. Women during this time would suffer through oppressive states…

In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” published in 1892, author Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes about a young woman named Jane who is suppressed by her husband and suffers from depression. To begin, Gilman introduces Jane, a newly married woman who recently moved in to a new house with her physician of a husband, John. Next Gilman, displays how she is a struggling woman who suffers from “nervous weakness” (473) as misdiagnosed by her husband. Jane was continuously hoovered over and…

The famed twentieth century author Virginia Woolf, wrote nearly fifthteen works that have shaped the evolution of the twenty-first century. The attention to mental illness and social hierarchy that Woolf addresses within her 1925 literary classic Mrs. Dalloway, can be seen as an influential factor in addressing and later resolving these issues within social culture. Woolf emphasizes the theme of repression by addressing the stereotypical British roles of women and the lack of mental health…

Women’s roles in the workforce were extremely limited during the 19th century and it failed to allow promotions amongst women for their work. An underlying theme of the inequalities throughout the workforce is apparent in Stephen Crane’s novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, is the foundation of realistic literature written during the late 19th century which features several progressive undertones for broader topics such as nature versus nurture, women’s roles, and…

3. The Psychological Outcomes of Women in the Bell Jar The Bell Jar is a story of a young woman struggling with her mental health. Many factors including social oppressions reveal in the novel led her into madness. Esther Greenwood the protagonist of the novel experienced breakdowns in her life which led her at many times to suicide. 3.1 .The Protagonist’s Madness and the Woman initiate mental Illness Sylvia Plath describes her long term depression that blocks her mind her scope of…

f of all the secrets so that I could depart when the time came, with a scrubbed- out conscience. This life narrative plays the vital role in the healing of wound made by traumatic experience in her life. Smith and Watson defines “the autobiographical writing functions at the mode of heeling” as a “scripto- therapy”. It includes the process of both “writing out and through traumatic experiences in the mode of therapeutic reenactment” (202). Kamala auto journey in to the past proves cathartic and…

Rationale I decided to write a diary from Lenina’s point of view, one of the main characters of A Brave New World, which takes place in a utopian society that is divided in five castes (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon). In this society people can’t have babies, families or feelings. Lenina belongs to the Beta’s caste which means that she is a shallow product of a materialistic society, but in her diary we can see her struggling against her caste. On her diary Lenina wanted to be loved by…

The title of the novel is a little bit paradoxical and ambiguous. The novel's title is called Speak; while the entire dilemma throughout the novel is that its heroine Melinda is suffering from her silence and isolation; she cannot speak of what scares her, or even to call for her rights. Her anger is revealed through inner conflicts which caused her psychological problems. In stark opposition to the title she refused to speak of what annoys her and preferred to remain silent and isolated. From…