The Awakening

A Rose for Emily and The Yellow Wallpaper are two short stories about two women during the late 1800s through the early 1900s. This is during an era when women are viewed as less important than men. Both Emily and the narrator are trapped in a world of delusions, control, and mental illness. Scorned by the men in their lives and society, both women experience feelings of control by others, loneliness, and a loss of sanity. Although both women share similar experiences, they came from different…

Deep below the surface of the Pacific ocean, there was city hidden. Where nobody would or could see, where magical creatures that no one could ever know. when they're once live the guardian mermaids of Shallow waves. Lunabelle Lunabelle where are you?! My mother yelled. I Stop Make little water bubbles, With my hand. I always wonder why, why do I have this power and how?.I had just gotten This power on my 14th birthday and I felt I was different but so different that I’ll have something so…

The poem Woman Before an Aquarium written by Patricia Hampl’s in 1978 the writer initially seems to argue for the necessity of escaping her current life. The poem is more complex , however, because it also implies the fact of overcoming fear of man and discovering who she is. Yet Patricia seems paradoxically, gaze into a fishbowl she does so in order to imagine her life as one of the fish. Patricia initially seems to argue for the necessity to overcome her fear and live a normal life. She…

Prakash Aryal Dr. Suzette Bishop English 1302-201 February 17, 2018 Literary Analysis on “The Storm” “The Storm” is a short story written by Kate Chopin in 1898. The story did not publish until 1969. The Author did not make any attempt of publishing the story as it contains some adulterous scenes at the main part of climactic tale which would not be acceptable to her readers at her time. The story is about the reignition of passion between two…

Long ago, there was no light. Only darkness and cold tempatures filled the empty void. Then, a drop of water appeared. Over time, many droplets stuck together to form a large water sphere, the Great Water Drop. In this sphere, there bubbles formed and stuck together to form the first God, Islara.Islara ruled the great waters as a great sea creature with a sleek streamlined lower body with silver scales, and no legs, only green fins. Her upper body on the other hand was formed in the shape of a…

Swimming is something that almost everyone loves to do. Whether it is in a pool or the ocean, there is a sense of freedom and weightlessness that we can't get anywhere else. As long as you can float in water you shouldn’t really have any fear or worry. If that water is thirty-two degrees on the other hand, then you might start to worry and panic. In the case of Lynne Cox, after the first page it kept me in suspense wondering, was she just going to die of hypothermia? I assumed the swim was going…

At the start of the poem it seems as if the author describes the lake in the quarry to be quiet and lifeless yet inviting. Then suddenly the author introduces the woman with metaphors to water like creatures. This makes the reader keep guessing what the author is talking about, but after they realise that the woman is being described like an animal, because she’s eager to dive into the water. This leads to one of the themes of life and a new adventure. As the author describes the woman's descent…

“Searching for Identity: The Religious Experiences of Norwich, Kempe, and Truth” Women have struggled, much like the fishermen sailing with a stormy sea, to relinquish their identity from the hands of man and regain control of it again. In waves, they have enjoyed brief moments of freedom and respect yet deep ruts of oppression and scorn. Even after years of efforts and progression, the storm, the struggle, is ongoing still. However, without the contribution of past women, there would be no…

“Turn left at the overlook and swim until you encounter a narrow opening in the cliffside. Inside is the legendary Shell of Shifting!” “What does it do?” Blake asked. She was fascinated by the story that her best friend’s grandmother was telling, although Elina herself didn’t look too interested. “It is said to be able to change the color of anything you want!” she replied. “Now, stop listening to my old tales and go play out in the reef!” Elina and Blake hadn’t been swimming for too long before…

Before taking this course, I never truly understood how many ways coming out of the closet and living your life as a lesbian can impact a woman’s life. From our readings of Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves, “‘No Kisses Like Youres’: An Erotic Friendship between Two African-American Women during the Mid-Nineteenth Century” by Karen V. Hansen, and Odd Girl Out by Ann Bannon, I learned that having a relationship with another women can cost a woman her…