Kendrick Perkins

The Yellow Wallpaper was unconventional in its time and extensively aware of the injustice women endured in America’s patriarchal society. For this reason alone, it can be argued that The Yellow Wallpaper, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, challenged marginalisation of American women in the 1890s, even as it restricts them within men’s houses. The Yellow Wallpaper focuses on marginalisation, which is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as ‘the treatment of a person, group, or concept as…

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “If I Were a Man,” a woman, Mollie Mathewson, imagines what it would be like if she were a man for a day and subsequently ends up in her husband’s body. Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” follows the journal of a woman who is going through a psychological breakdown. These seem like different plots, however, they share a common theme of the repression of women by men. In Gilman’s “If I Were a Man,” Mollie Mathewson is stereotyped as a “true woman” (484). Mollie is…

specific settings to help the reader better understand the main theme in a literary piece. The setting can affect what the characters can and cannot do and can often dictate the outcome of the story. The setting of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway has symbolic value that is used to suggest something about the characters and the meaning of the stories. Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is set in the late 1800s in a colonial…

The Revolt of a “Mother” and the Yellow Wall-Paper contain an identical underlying theme — repression of women during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Yellow Wall-Paper is written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and was originally published in 1892. Gilman’s novel represents the repression of women during the late 1800s. Next, the Revolt of a Mother is written by Mary E. Freeman, and was originally published in 1914. Freeman’s novel represents the repression of women during the early 1900s. The…

Modeled after Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a young wife and mother that hides alone in her bedroom and begins to become delusional. After recently giving birth to a child, she is suffering from depression. Her husband John, a physician, diagnoses his wife with a temporary “nervous condition.” She writes in a journal until her husband stops her from all reading and writing, but she cannot deny her passion for writing. She soon develops this fascination with…

One day you may be getting an award for having the "best smile” at school and all of a sudden the next, your best friend is drafted into the military. The world isn’t as “perfect” as the media, TV or many people put it to be. Susanna Kaysen, Charlotte Gilman and Frida Kahlo are great examples of what it’s like to drift apart society’s standards. As they talk about and show their feelings and thoughts about how society really is like, they present how their “abnormality” is treated in the eyes of…

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…

A sad woman held hostage, has yet to experience a glimpse of freedom. “The Story of an hour” was written by Kate Chopin in 1894. The author wrote many stories about women. The author inspiration came from how women were treated in her current generation(the 1800s). It was a time where women were considered less than men. This worldview worsened women's lives. Now in “The story of an hour” Mrs. Mallard is trapped in a marriage, that keeps her from experiencing a sense of freedom from a…

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.…