Kendrick Perkins

In “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman utilizes characterization to demonstrate how men abuse their power to ensure women are perceived as incapable beings, and how this abuse becomes internalized within women, resulting in complicity of oppression and deteriorated mental states. John employs his patriarchal and doctoral standings to diagnosis his wife as mentally ill, thus restricting her in misogynistic gender roles. Through John’s actions, his sister Jennie becomes complicit in…

Alix Kates Shulman once said, “Sexism goes so deep that at first it’s hard to see; you think it’s just reality.” Sexism is something that, at one time, was taught, but now is an accepted part of society. The Great Depression brought out the worst aspects of sexism by complicating the roles of women and discrimination and hardships in the workplace and in society. These issues are all depicted through the character of Curley’s wife in the novel, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. Mother,…

Injustice in Women 's Mental Health Care Female inequality is a touchy subject but is very much real. Females have fought long and hard to get where they are today but still have a long way to go. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” that gives readers an idea of how mental health care was in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. Health care has improved drastically since this time period so 21st century readers can be shocked at how inhumane this story may seem. John…

Research Topic The Yellow wallpaper is a short story that was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The short story engages in stereotypes of women in society. The fact that Gilman introduces a woman in the story and how she goes crazy because the role she is able to play in the society is limited, and also the ability for her to express herself creatively is constricted, simply points out how Gillman is making a Feminist statement by critiquing society’s view of women in general and the…

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” the author tells the story of her isolation that her husband deemed to be necessary for her. She tells us about her husband that is a doctor who believes that she has temporary nervous depression and that he believed her isolation was key to helping her get better. In Jimmy Santiago Baca’ “So Mexicans are Taking Jobs From Americans” discusses the issues that Americans believe to be Mexicans taking jobs away from us. Baca’s poem is all about…

Unabashed and slightly eccentric, Charlotte Perkins Gilman delivers a story of the chaotic mess known as reality. Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper”, is a story that has been both criticized and debated about the true nature of the piece. With some readers claiming it to be a ghost story, and others believing the story as one of a controlling relationship between man and wife. While there appears to be an element that can only be described as eerie or ghostlike, this story is not one of ghosts.…

“The Yellow Wallpaper,” written by Charlotte Gilman, is a short story that shocked society when it was first published in 1892. This work was inspired by her own life struggles. Having suffering through postpartum depression, Gilman became an advocate of the pitfalls of rest cure. Yellow, a color commonly associated with the joy eliciting sunshine, is also known as an anxiety inducing color. The color yellow that stains the wallpaper of the room the main character is confined to sets the uneasy…

In particular, women were the group that led strict lives to follow the conducts set by society, their husbands, and even other women. Although some women were educated, they were not allowed to write or openly express their ideas. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, an unnamed narrator is one of those women who dared to write, although in secret. After giving birth to her son, she becomes emotionally unstable and discontented with her condition. So her husband decides to cure…

In George Orwell’s 1984, women do not have a prominent role and they are portrayed in a unfeminine manner. Orwell demonstrates women as a weaker and inferior sex through the actions of Julia, Mrs. Parsons, Winston’s mother, Katharine, and the singing Prole woman. Most of the novel, Orwell focuses on Winston and the other men in 1984. However, when we do read about the women they are usually doing domestic or household chores. The women in society are treated as though they are not human and do…

In the short story of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gillman writes an intriguing story that brings to light how women were identified through domestic roles in the Victorian era. She shows through a haunting experience and progression of the “resting-cure.” Through dark symbolism, descriptive and repetitive diction, and setting of events taken place, readers are able to understand how those roles denied women their freedom and independence. Throughout the story, Gillman shows…