Silas Marner

Everyone makes poor decisions in their life that later has an effect on them. In three short stories by Kate Chopin, she explains how many people often make irresponsible decisions which eventually leads to dissatisfaction. With this in mind, the story Regret discusses how a woman rejected a proposal to live a life she later regretted. Including, Desiree’s Baby, which depicts how a young man decided to send his wife and child elsewhere because of their race. In addition to, The Story of An Hour…

Flannery O'Connor often used common stereotypes in her short stories, only to subvert them later in order to change, or at least make her audience aware of their perception or judgments of people. Flannery O'Connor’s writing style and critique of culture can be a slap in the face to many of her readers. Upsetting her audiences’ expectations and judgments of people seems to be her specialty, and is something that she continuously does throughout her writing. A couple of her characters that…

In Cree, one does not say, “I am sick.” Instead, one says, “The sickness has come to me.” I love that and want to honor it (Citeswt). Johanna Hedva is a Korean American contemporary artist whose most famous work is the Sick Women Theory. She got the idea of sick women theory from Audrey Wollen’s “Sad Girl Theory” and Kate Zambreno’s “Heroines.” She tries and gives the sick women the qualities opposite to a heroin because sick women are not considered as heroines. Her idea of sick women theory…

Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context. After the war, Kathleen Drover returns to her home in London to collect her families items that they left behind. As she is in her old, broken down home, she notices a letter on the table but convinces herself that her soldier lover has come back for her because he told her to wait for his return from the war. “On the supernatural side of the letter’s entrance she was…

Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel “The Bell Jar”, briefs the story of an amazing, gifted poet, Esther Greenwood, whose falling apart piece by piece due to the pressure of society. Throughout the novel Esther gave many signs on how she's slowly falling apart. When working for the Ladies’ Day magazine in New York, Esther develops a mental illness. An illness that makes her unable to sleep then leads to her not being able to read and write. She then tries to commit suicide multiple times due to the lack of…

Marriage in the Romantic era has been interpreted in the works of many female writers, who struggles with constricted gender stereotypes, for its true meaning for both men and women. Jane Austen, the writer of “Pride and Prejudice”, never got married; she remained an independent woman and never gave in or believed in the marriage stereotypes of her time. She pursued her career as a writer and made it her lifestyle. Jane is definitely using her writing skills to make a social criticism that…

Strong Born in San Francisco, Jana Harris is the author of “Don’t Cheapen Yourself” a poem empowering woman. This poem was created at a time when women were fighting for equal rights. In the poem, the subject who appears to be a young woman is confronted by her mother who calls her “sleazy” (line1). This would suggest her mother does not agree with the selections of clothing, since she is accustomed to more conservative ways for a woman to dress and percent herself in public; to her mother’s…

Many authors utilize books to convey problems with society. More talented authors such as Gustave Flaubert and Kate Chopin address their perspectives creatively through the life of a character, Emma and Edna. These authors both impart their perspective on the topic of women’s rights in the books Madame Bovary and The Awakening. Although it is their diverse tone in which both argue their positive or negative ideas for letting women have the ability to choose. Gustave uses his tone to show how…

The Awakening by Kate Chopin takes place in the late nineteenth century and revolves around a woman named Edna Pontellier who cannot conform to the society in which she lives in. Throughout the novel, Edna slowly breaks free of the reigns in which society holds her to by rebelling against the ideas and morals of motherhood and femininity and chooses love and solitude instead. Early on in the novel, however, Chopin alludes to the existence of Edna's dual life through the following quote, "At a…

The main characters in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson and “The Story of an hour” by Kate Chopin are both 19th century women that are unhappy with their husbands and lives. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” a woman is trapped in her bedroom by her cruel husband, and eventually goes crazy due to this and begins to see a woman in the wallpaper. The woman in “Story of an hour” felt trapped by the mundanity of life, and felt free when she discovered her husband had died, but when he…