Kendrick Perkins

If you do not stand up for yourself you will never be free. Freedom is essential for a happy life, but basic rights are so often taken from people. Amel Benaboura illustrates this issue in her short story ‘Only a Woman’ which depicts a young woman facing oppression in a patriarchal society. Benaboura uses metaphors, anecdotes and word choice to emphasise her key idea about fighting for your rights. Yamina is a young woman who has grown up in Algeria, a patriarchal society, where violence…

The title “My Last Duchess” starts with a possessive pronoun “my”, it shows men domination. Robert in this poem wants to draw the attention to women struggling at the Victorian era. Where the society was a patriarchy domination. Men play the major role while women only stay at home to offer what her husband and children need. women at that time were treated as an object. The speaker is the Duke of Ferrara, a powerful man who his family run Ferrara for many years. The poem started when the duke…

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…

“The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck is a story about a strong woman named Elisa, who is limited to live her full self. Although the two key men in the story are less interesting and talented than she, their lives are far more fulfilling and busy. The author conveys to the audiences the picture of inequality society in gender through characters, conflicts, point of view, and settings of the story. Steinbeck has done a great job at describing characters by juxtaposing different genders. Henry…

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…

QUESTIONING CREDIBILITY Dianne Rockenstein, who received her Bachelor's degree in psychology and Master's degree in counseling psychology, wrote a public review discussing Daphne Scholinski's memoir The Last Time I Wore a Dress. With her review on the memoir, she mentions Scholinski consistent behavior of wanting to stretch the truth, wanting to be in control, and exemplifying bad behavior (Rockenstein, 1). She further highlights the other issues that surrounded Daphne being committed to a…

“A Tunnel to Call Home” Answers: Makenna’s Questions The title “A Tunnel to Call home” gives the reader a glimpse into what they are about to read: an essay about someone that lives in a tunnel. The title’s correlation to the passage as a whole reflects the predicament within the article. Many are troubled, especially Virginia’s family, by the idea of a women sleeping and living in a metro station on a cardboard box. Although the title reveals that the tunnel is seen as a home, meaning Virginia…

ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY CIA I CASE STUDY: THE GENAIN QUADRUPLETS Sneha Ganguly- 1313249 Keerthana Ullas- 1313231 Hitha Maureen- 1313228 Sneha Elizabeth- 1313249 THE CASE STUDY The Genain quadruplets (born in 1930) are a set of identical quadruplet sisters. All four of them developed schizophrenia, suggesting a major genetic factor to the cause of the disease. The pseudonym Genain, used to protect the identity of the family, comes from the Greek, meaning dire birth. The sisters were given the…

between family, friends, or particularly spouses can be negative or positive regardless of whether there are social, political, or environmental factors, and personal or financial situations. Writers like Theodore Roethke, Katie Chopin, and Charlotte Perkins Stetson importantly depict the stressful and delicate matter of complicated relationships between husband and wife in their literary works “My Papa’s Waltz,” Story of an Hour,” and “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Each of these…

yet also austere.” (16). This quote is on the second page of the novel so readers can already get a sense of themes of feminization and gender inequality that Rash implements throughout the novel. The Forerunner released an article by, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, writing about her short story The Yellow Wallpaper which was titled accordingly, Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper. In this article Gilman writes upon how society and professionals can implant horrific stereotypes into ones brain that can…