Kendrick Perkins

“The Yellow Wallpaper” “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (the story was taken from the book Literature Craft & Voice written by Delbanco and Cheseuse) and is about a woman suffering from postpartum depression. The story main focus is about the popular treatment for this illness in women back in those days called the ‘rest cure’ which almost ruin the authors mental health. She wanted to write this story to help other women prevent going through this situation.…

“The Yellow Wall-paper”, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is written in first person and consist of numerous journal entries. The narrator of the story is a woman who struggles with herself because she suffers from a nervous condition and faces depression. She is confined in an isolated house, on bed rest. She states that the house “is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village” (844). This house is separated from real life and society and her emotional…

Like an ocean tide slowly but steadily eroding a sand castle, hypocrisy almost always undermines societal values. In the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice, Austen uses Mrs. Bennett to vividly illustrate hypocrisy’s slow and frustrating impact on those around her. Austen creates a satirical tone using foil characters and Lizzie’s perspective to further characterize Mrs. Bennet. By combining these literary devices, Austen successfully evokes a mood of exasperation in the reader by portraying the…

Describe the course of Edna's awakening Women are seen as weak individuals who are told that this is a man’s world, that we can’t live without them and must willingly oblige to them. Society has drilled this into their heads which caused a lot of women to mindlessly live unfulfilling lives while others decide to wake up from this fake reality and confront the things that society has been holding back from them. In the book “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin, Edna a woman from 1890, decides to break…

Over the summer I read the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. This book is about a girl named Tally,she is an ugly. Tally has to go on a trip to a place called the smoke and betray one of her best friends to become pretty. On her trip Tally made new friends and also an emamy.In the end Tally learned to love the herself the way she was and no longer wanted to be pretty. Uglies are a group of people who society considers ugly. There are multiple different classes though. first there are littlies…

intellectual outlet. It was basically reducing the woman down to nothing if she was not willing to conform to the societal domestic standards of the time, and this being driven down into nothing is what inspired the work The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The work contains many symbols and themes, some of which exposed how the ‘rest cure’ was harmful to women which sparked a social movement to ban the ‘rest cure’. To be more specific, The Yellow Wallpaper is symbolic in that the…

Anne Fadiman’s book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, tells the story of the clashing of cultures between the Hmong culture and Western culture through the lens of medicine. Fadiman’s plot revolves around Lia, a Hmong girl born with severe epilepsy, and the tales of Hmong culture, allowing the reader to understand the actions of Lia and other Hmong, like her parents, as their culture heavily influences their beings. Thus I propose that this book remain a summer reading requirement as the…

The “Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a fictional autobiography that illustrates the isolation and oppression women faced during the late nineteenth century. The woman in the story who we later find out is named Jane, is portrayed as somebody who is approaching insanity while searching for some peace in her male dictated world. The author depicts the confinement and oppression of women by explaining the emotional imprisonment of Jane as well as her social and mental state as she…

Feminist struggles One heroine is fighting for her physical independence and another one is fighting for her mental independence. According to critics, women were considered to be “weak bodies and impressible minds” which make them “predisposed to any physical and/ or mental disease that could affect their fragile emotional state” (Treichler, 61). This is the same thing of which Jane became the victim when she tells “if a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and…

“A Rose for Emily” is a short story written by William Faulkner about a psychotic woman by the name of Emily Grierson. Emily appears to be greatly separated from the reality of life and proves to be depressed and lonely due to past life circumstances. After the death of her father and the series of unfortunate events she experiences throughout her life, Emily deals with her pain by residing in a world filled with sorrow and depression. Unfortunately, not being able to overcome her life…