Oz Perkins

The prominent theme in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte P. Stetson, illustrates that women’s voices are not heard in society. The protagonist, Jane, begins by describing herself as a person with depression. She attempts to explain to her husband about her mental illness and is told she does not have anything wrong with her. John’s plan was to “cure” her depression by locking her in a room with barred windows, but it only made her illness worse as time went by. “You see he does not believe I…

‘The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist’ One contemporary artwork that is on display at the Tate Gallery that uses the postmodern frame to comment on the inequality between men and women is a poster created by the Guerrilla Girls titled, ‘The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist’. Their piece uses styles of comedy including ironic and sarcastic humour by outlining the “benefits” of being a female artist. This chosen artwork is one of thirty pieces created by the group in a portfolio entitled…

Summary: The narrator and her husband go to a nice house for a summer vacation. Jennie is the housekeeper and John’s sister. The narrator suffers from nervous depression and her husband is her doctor. She keeps a secret journal even though part of her treatment is not to write. The narrator starts to go insane and starts to imagine things in the wallpaper. She then starts to start tearing down the wall paper and the husband realizes that she has gone mad and faints. Character Analysis: The…

Paige Elder Prof. Goyette ENG 102 03C 11/2/2017 “The Yellow Wall-Paper:” Peeling Away Human Nature “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was written with a great amount of psychological knowledge and, quite obviously, is so realistic that it is questionable if Gilman herself had gone through this turmoil that is described within the fiction. After she birthed her first daughter, she immediately dove into a depression (Berman). The main character in this story that is being taken…

“Shoot the Damn Dog” is written by Sally Brampton, a successful magazine editor and prize-winning journalist; who would have thought that behind a very successful and glamorous career, as the editor of Elle and then of Red, was a story that many (of her friends and colleagues) knew nothing about “Depression”. She struggled with ongoing, severe depression and alcoholism. It was the hardest thing for her as she described the struggle in her book “I found that a steady stream of alcohol together…

The societal conventions that have enslaved individuals in regards to race, sexuality, gender roles, among other social constructs, have been used to debilitate women in particular. Most people often feel they are imprisoned in a box, suffocating from the pressure to conform to societal norms. This idea is explored in the short story written by Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour.” Chopin elucidates the social conventions that have plagued women along with the impact they cause through Mrs.…

This is an extract from Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. We see how Offred describes her breakfast with great detail due to her boredom in her bedroom followed by the birth ceremony of Ofwarren’s child. This occurs after she recounts her memory of being pregnant and being with her husband before the Regime. Atwood manages to make two specific themes prominent in this extract of women's bodies being used as political instruments and religion showing effect of oppression. She makes these…

How does the writer make the ending so dramatically effective? - The plight of Madame Loisel  (How does she perceive her life to be? Draw upon examples here!)  (What does her life become? Why is this ironic?) - The relationship between Madame + Monsieur  (Why does he seem so pleased with himself for the Party invitation?)  (He uses all his money not just to help buy her an outfit but also to buy a real diamond necklace)  (Why is he so content in life?) - Symbolism of the necklace  (How…

The fate of most Indian women in a male dominating society is that they have no liberty to express their feelings. The dramatist establishes the concept that the plight of the Indian women is such that they are doomed to be always at the mercy of the men folk. Right from the ancient days, till the present, with certain exceptions, the situation has remained the same. Even Chitralekha, in spite of her being the daughter-in-law of the Bharatha family, is not an exception. Like most women in India,…

Both The Awakening and The Poisonwood Bible hold many themes that are similar and events that correlate to one another. In The Awakening, Edna is unhappy in her marriage, feeling like she is the only one who ever does anything around the house while her husband goes to work and does little around the house. In The Poisonwood Bible, Orleanna has the feelings of regret in even marrying Nathan as he becomes very hard headed after the war. Orleanna feels like her husband just does not care anymore…