Yellow jacket

• In Charlotte Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Gilman challenges the unjust patriarchal social system that enforces biased gender roles during the 19th century: when wives are forced into oppression by the idea that their husband knows best in all aspects of life and marriage. She utilizes the narrator’s feelings towards her own domestic role as a prison instead of a normal social structure. Confined to a single room due to a misdiagnoses of post-partum depression, the narrator…

tragic to the people surrounded by it. In both the short story “Yellow Wallpaper,” and the poem “Home Burial,” the characters were struck by a simple death, but the effects on them were tragic. In the time “Yellow Wallpaper,” was written, women were sometimes classified as hysterical. In the short story, the main character a woman is married to a doctor named John, and he believes she…

wrote. Andrea Dworkin, a radical feminist, meant that women were taught to keep to themselves with no dreams or aspirations to follow. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, she highlights the struggles of a sick woman in a patriarchal society. During the late seventeenth century when The Yellow Wallpaper was written, hit the first wave of feminism. Women were expected to take care of the house and watch the babies without any say. First wave feminism highlights…

In the classic novel, Jane Eyre, the attitudes and beliefs of the author, Charlotte Brontë, are reflected, especially those over superstition and spirits. Brontë is appears to be a large believer in good and bad omens, shown when a tree is struck by lightning and through Jane’s dreams leading up to the wedding. The night of Mr. Rochester’s proposal there is a great storm, and the next morning young Adele tells Jane that “the great horse-chestnut at the bottom of the orchard had been struck by…

Sylvia Plath’s writing is a haunting memory of her ineluctably tormented and thoughtful mind. The Bell Jar is a perniciously brutal story of a young woman struggling to handle the pressures of academia, sexism, career uncertainty, insomnia, depression. These factors had a synergetic effect on her ability to get through life. Essentially, the events in the book are autobiographical. Truly, one would be incapable of creating such a gruesomely emotional novel without experiencing the same internal…

Burnt-out theatre - The burnt out theatre repented the environment of the mentally ill patients and the lifestyle they are subjected to. As they are socially outcasted by the community in Melbourne, the patients are living beyond the same four walls, in which bores them where as entering a new routine excites the patients and enthuses them to get involved with the production. Arabian Phoenix -The women in the original version of Così Fan Tutte and the spin off version Cosi incorporate the…

The White Album The White Album by Joan Didion is a scrapbook of well-written and vividly detailed personal memories of Didion in the 60s. “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Using this sentence as the opening to her essay establishes interest within the reader. Didion uses amazing imagery to describe her first hand experiences. The book is a collection of thoughts and themes that Didion explores throughout her life, by recording all her opinions and ideas. This book is an exploration…

In Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Williams focuses on the hardships in the daily life of a wealthy Southern family. Like realism, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof does not depict the perfect lifestyles of American Citizens rather the harsh reality that ordinary people face everyday. Up, alone in their room Brick lies on the bed resting his broken ankle while Margaret paces around the room. After listening to the screams of the no neck monsters and their mom, Mae, Margaret is on edge. Worried…

Modern art was revolutionary, in all senses of the word. It birthed artists such as Matisse, Picasso and Moore. Matisse, Picasso’s rival, made Fauvism popular and was inspired to do things differently to others. Picasso in turn, brought Cubism into the art industry, and became arguably one of the most famous and well known artists in the world. Moore was not as famous as the other two artists, but he also was unique, in the way that he used sculpture as his main medium. These three revolutionary…

Lezley Saar was born in 1953 in Los Angeles California. Saar became known for transforming old books into assemblages. She attended the L'Institut Francais de Photographie in Paris, she also attended the San Francisco State University and received her B.A at the California State University at Northridge. In 2000, she won an award at the California State Senate Contemporary Art Collection. Saar’s artwork has been exhibited at many places such as the MOCA Museum, the Ackland Art Museum and the…