Kendrick Perkins

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…

Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life follows the hostilities and tension between workers and masters unfolding in Manchester. The plot revolves around the protagonist Mary and her close friends and father. Her development follows her from girlhood to motherhood. She matures away from her inclination towards money and status, to true love and happiness. Because of these inclusions, the novel should be categorized in the contested concept of bildungsroman. Ultimately,…

Gilman’s support of the women’s suffrage is written all in the story “The Yellow Wallpaper”. She uses many symbols to emphasis the woman’s struggle of equality in the 1900’s. The husband takes her away 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 story “The Yellow Wallpaper” takes place in the 19th century when there were very strict expectations and sexist views on women. They were expected to obey their husbands and were expected to be the perfect housewife. They were not respected or listened to at this period of time, they were viewed as less than men. The narrator in this story starts off with a small nervous disorder, which eventually progresses into something more serious. The husband is also her physician and in charge of…

Gender Division in the Yellow Wallpaper In the story The Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gilman uses the tale of psychological insanity to portray the position of women, especially pointing to married women. Readers understand this story to be a horror 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…

The “Yellow Wallpaper” is about a woman who suffers from post-partum depression which leads to her being isolated in her room that drives her insane. The “Yellow Wallpaper” that she hated so much became a significant symbol. A symbol of the domestic life that trapped so many women back then. The “Yellow Wallpaper” also represented the structure of her family. One of the points of the story is to show women struggling with their individualities during her time period. It shows how women were…

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…

This paper aims to analyze how both Tagore and Narayan sought to reform the Indian society of their time by portraying bold and dynamic women characters in their fiction. Tagore portrayed the character of Charulata as a self- motivated woman in the story entitled The Ruined Nest while R.K Narayan described the character of Rosie as a vibrant and passionate woman in The Guide. Both the writers chose to portray the character of bold woman nonetheless of the perspective of Indian society on women.…

Susanna Kaysen’s book, Girl, Interrupted, is an amazing piece of literature that tells the story of the two years she spent at McLean Hospital. Kaysen depicts the theme of confusion between freedom and captivity through her experience at McLean Hospital to show how one cannot be found without the other. While questioning the difference between non-conforming and being crazy, Susanna Kaysen also allows the readers to question themselves and their ideas of normality. The use of literary elements,…

Edward Said declares exile to be a terrible, but also enriching, experience. Inherently, this seems paradoxical -- after all, how can something be both abhorrent and empowering? In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, the titular character suffers this kind of isolation from society, and through her isolation develops both a deep desire for human companionship and a fierce independence, and is then forced to grapple with her two incompatible desires. In the beginning of the novel, it is immediately…