Kendrick Perkins

Around 58,022 people died in the Vietnam War in 1975, yet many people are still affected by seeing the Vietnam Memorial. In the poem, “Facing It,” by Yusef Komunakaa, the mood of the poem is melancholy because the imagery from the stone man, the woman’s blouse, and the lady combing hair establishes the mood. In example, the author described himself as a “black face, hiding inside the black granite.” This was showing that he was a black man who was also in the war. During that time, he wanted to…

of they look or what mental disorders they might have. Their surroundings attract how they are driven into madness. In the short stories “ A Madman's Diary” by Lu Xun, “Memoirs of a Madman” by Nikolai Gogol and “ The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman all the protagonists are driven into madness becauses of their treatments they have received and the things they have…

The author uses the natural world to describe situations, feelings and emotions. The short story of “The Fly Paper” by Elizabeth Taylor is a literary fiction. The story concerns an eleven years old, Sylvia, who is on her way to a music lesson when she gets disturbed by a creepy guy. The Author includes a fly paper in the story to show how Sylvia is feeling. “She stared up at a fly-paper hanging in the windows. The only disconcerting thing in the room”. We are meant to understand that Sylvia is…

Carol Ann Duffy’s enraged Medusa and Sylvia Plath’s abusive The Jailer involve women in damaged relationships both physically and emotionally. Duffy’s persona is an unhappy wife who is jealous of her husband’s mistress and this jealousy transforms her metaphorically and physically into the mythical creature, Medusa. This persona is used to victimise this women, Duffy uses this persona to evoke empathy for the character to show she is clearly distressed and suffering. Compared to Plath’s persona…

The main issue described in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is portrayed on her awareness of how a woman is supervised and dominated by a man. Nevertheless, the social complexity of a woman’s substance should not solemnly rely on the dependent of a man. Perkins describes how particular John, the husband, was about how his wife, Jane, should follow each of her daily responsibilities very carefully, doing so every hour of every day. The underlying issue is how John’s…

Fahrenheit 451 Montag lives in a society where books aren’t allowed, but when he starts realizing things his feelings change about books and love. Clarisse a girl comes into Montag’s life and shows him a different view in love. Also, an old man, Fabor, Montag met at the park shows Montag a different view in books. Montag believed that reading books were useless and that he’s in love with mildred, but towards the end Montag learns from Clarisse and Fabor that books are more than words on paper…

The emergence of biomedicine and the development of medical technologies created a new form of medical practice, clinical gaze. In Foucault’s concept of clinical gaze, medical practice and the power relationship between doctors and their patients have been transformed (1973). Foucault says “‘facilitated by the medical technologies that frame and focus the physicians’ optical grasp of the patient, the medical gaze abstracts the suffering person from her sociological context and reframes her as a…

When Gilman finished writing her masterpiece “The Yellow Wallpaper”, she sent the short story out to multiple publishers hoping for it to be printed. One of her major issues with trying to get her story reproduced was that critics simply did not want to publish such an appalling story. Every publisher she sent it too declined. Horace Scudder, the editor at the time for the Atlantic Monthly, wrote to her in a note saying that he would never forgive himself if he subjected others to the misery…

In his story, “Let Me Sleep”—English translation by Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher— Chekhov recounts the tale of a nursemaid, Varka, who is never allowed to sleep. She is either up all night with the child or working for the family during the day. This leads to delusions and a tragic end. Ironically, for such a dark story, it is punctuated with references to light throughout. These references to light and a green lamp in particular, signal not only tonal shifts within the story, but also the…

The Yellow Wall-paper was written by, Charlotte Perkins Gilman first published in the Forerunner of October 1913. This story is about a woman who is diagnosed with “nervous depression” by her physician. The physician is a high standing doctor, John who is also her husband. Her brother is a well-known physician also of high standing and he too gives her the same diagnosis “nervous depression”. With this diagnosis she is prohibited from any work and never to touch pen and pencil again as long as…