Kendrick Perkins

Throughout the novel, despite being married to Leonce, Edna has several different love interests. When Arobin was at Edna’s house one night “he leaned forward and kissed her, she clasped his head, holding his lips to hers”. Even in Leonce’s home Edna feels no shame in being with another man. Edna even describes the kiss as “a flaming torch that kindled desire” (110). Arobin was not the only man that she was intimate with; in fact, Edna said to Robert when he returned from Mexico “now you are…

I found The Evolution Of Mara Dyer to have some similarities to Made You Up by Francesca Zappia. In Mara Dyer, Mara suffers from PTSD. After she has a mental breakdown about supposedly seeing her dead ex boyfriend, her family thinks she might also be schizophrenic. Throughout the book, weird things keep happening to her. Her house keys go missing, she finds a dead cat on her doorstep, her mirrors are written on in blood, she finds pictures on her camera that were taken at the foot of her bed…

Petrified Woman in Welty’s Petrified Man The Petrified Man takes place in the Deep South back in the 1930’s. Society at that time and place had very strong beliefs regarding the role of male and female and the institution of traditional marriage. I see Leota breaking the gender norm of the female by having feelings for another female and exhibiting tradition male "feelings" for a female. This story is interesting as the only mention of male characters during the whole story is the main…

(Chopin). This quote emphasizes Mrs. Mallard’s realization of her long awaited independence and individuality. Louise finally is casting off the old shackles of her oppressive relationship. Mrs. Mallard’s emotion is a highly unusual one, and is challenging to identify. Louise’s fit of sadness, until this point in the story, ends once she understands the weight of the situation and finds her true emotion for what has happened. It is natural for the reader to question Louise’s feelings towards…

In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, symbolism plays an important part in portraying the theme of the story, which is how women are always the oppressed one in a relationship. “The Yellow Wallpaper” opens with the narrator stating how she is being kept in a summer house where she is not allowed to do anything except rest because of her condition. While in the house, her husband, John, dominates her and controls every decision she makes. At the end of the story, the narrator…

In the Gothic genre, authors write about the taboo. This includes the topic about a woman’s place in society. In Gothic novels, women are characterized by either shameless harlotry or trembling innocence. This description makes sense as seen in Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. These definitions are played with by Stephen King in the novel Carrie where he uses these definitions and then seems to suggest that no one iscompletely set in one specific characteristic. In Northanger Abbey, the reader…

After reading the short excerpt about Maria, I quickly realized that she is experiencing nerve issues. The median nerve supplies movement and feeling to the palm, thumb, index finger, and middle finger. (JH and Zhao M) Maria is undergoing numbness, and tingling in her thumb, index, and middle fingers, with an aching pain in the palmar sides of her wrists. Maria’s most likely diagnosis is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, or CTS. While there is no direct correlation between typing on a computer for an…

Throughout “The Consolation of Philosophy” by Boethius, he brings up the idea of being able to distinguish one’s true possessions from the gifts of fortune. He presents Lady Philosophy, a woman that looks after Boethius in prison, in Book I. Lady Fortune is also presented and she essentially helps Boethius keep in mind the good and evil due to him losing faith for being imprisoned. Boethius wants to prove that there’s a different outlook in jail using fortune and philosophy along the way. He…

Replacing Depression with an Inanimate Object In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” which takes place in the Victorian era. Charlotte and her husband move into a rental home temporarily. In the home there is a particular room that is decorated in a yellowish wall paper. Initially, Charlotte hates the wallpaper and asks her husband to change it, he refuses and stated that they will not be in the home long enough to change the wall paper. Over time Charlotte becomes enthralled with the wall paper…

In Kate Chopin’s novel, The Awakening, Edna Pontellier experiences a revelation about the lack of freedom she experiences as a woman in the 1890’s. The book covers her progression of thought and her transformation from repressed but yearning for freedom to her attempts at full freedom from society’s dictations, building up to her suicide. Chopin fills the book with underlying motifs that symbolize Edna’s gradual change, one of these being clothing. Edna’s awakening mirrors an alteration in…