Ronnie Mitchell

A book like an abstract painting, Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” can be perceived in many ways. These perceptions can vary in its use of symbolism and what everything could mean. One of these is the idea that the women/narrator is either trapped in her own home or she is a patient in an asylum. There are facts from the story that help argue both sides, but there is more in favor of the woman being trapped in her own home. The evidence that supports the woman being trapped in her…

This essay attempts to compare the paralysis and repression of two women with different social statuses in male-domineered societies. The first of which is Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”, a short story which takes place in the late 19th century America and follows a repressed Mrs. Mallard who, upon being falsely informed of her husband’s death, sets out to gain a sense of self-assertion. Her short period of rejoice – and her life – are, however, put to an end when her husband returns. The…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ and Sylvia Plath’s novel, ‘The Bell Jar’, scrutinises how both women, the unnamed narrator and Esther, become mentally unstable. Both protagonists exploit their real life situations in their story and novel to emphasise how being a woman living in a patriarchal society has caused mental breakdowns. Moreover, they make attempts to explore and understand their suffering of depression and the possible ways to overcome it. The short…

A Rose For Emily is a short story written by William Faulkner. It revolves around a woman who lived her entire life in solitude in a small town. The yellow wallpaper on the other hand, by Charlotte Perkins, depicts the struggle of a woman with psychosis who is deprived treatment due to ignorance of her doctor husband which leads to deterioration of her health drastically. These two stories are interrelated in that both represent plies of women in a sexist society where men impose decisions on…

1 ) In the article called “The Last Meow” Author Bilger make this statement about Lady “she’s blind ,she’s toothless ,she has renal disease, and she’s is really sweet” .Bilger use the facts to support his argument,but he uses the surgeon Lillian Aronson to support his counter argument .This makes reader to support Bilger because facts are more logical and they revealed the truth .On the other hand , Bilger uses opinion which is judgment from Aronson (surgeon of Lady) .Thats makes his side of…

The short stories “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter and “The Storm” by Kate Chopin both contain similar themes such as the wisdom gained throughout life, but they are overall much more different than they are alike. The different ways the authors use their narrators dictates how we learn about the characters and what we do and do not learn about them. The main character and protagonist in the story by Porter, Granny Weatherall, goes through a ‘weathering’ process in her…

This assignment focuses on the lives of dalit women in patriarchal society with reference to Baburao Bagul’s short story “Mother”. The story projects the life of a dalit woman who was oppressed by both caste and gender. Through the life of the mother in the story the author shows the universality of her experience among all the dalit women. Dalit women were marginalised among an already marginalized class. The dual oppression of caste and gender creates an intensity of oppression which becomes…

In Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, she attempts to throw the reader into an alien environment by using various literary devices throughout her writing. She wants the reader to not only imagine the life of being a slave but instead she wants the reader to feel that they are living within the character’s shoes living the experience for themselves. Some of the literary devices Morrison uses in her writing is point of view, symbolism, and diction to portray the environment in Beloved to seem unknown…

The nineteenth century was a large feminist movement as women pushed against their “roles in society.” Women were beginning to act contrary to “expected” beliefs and actions. To expose and respond to this social inequality, many women took to writing- novels, letters, pamphlets, and speeches. Overall, literature during this time often focused on the conflict between women and society. Henry James was an American author often regarded as an important figure in the literary culture of the…

A Wicked Woman is a short story written by the famous author Jack London. It is a story about an unconfident young lady named Loretta and how her life is mostly decided by the men around her; in fact the whole story reflects a strong male dominance. The whole story and especially the language in the dialogues follow the gender stereotypes of men and women. Loretta is depicted with the characteristics of a “typical” woman: delicate, sensitive, cute and not that intelligent as Alice…