Yellow jacket

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator tells her story in a series of journal entries which portrays her descent into madness. We as the reader follow her transformation as we are led into the deepest corners of the narrator’s mind and hear her inner most thoughts, yet she remains anonymous as we never even learn her name. Because of this shift in sanity, the narrator’s credibility is constantly in question. Although, the cause of this shift transpires…

In Kate Ellison’s novel,” Notes from Ghost Town”, the main character goes through a period of her life in a state of confusion. Her Mother is in jail for murdering her best friend, she goes temporarily color blind, she then starts to see Stern, and she doesn’t understand why. To begin with, she starts to get confused is in the beginning of the book her and her best friend, Stern, are packing up her car so she can return to art school, the next day they find his body next to the ocean outside of…

I found The Evolution Of Mara Dyer to have some similarities to Made You Up by Francesca Zappia. In Mara Dyer, Mara suffers from PTSD. After she has a mental breakdown about supposedly seeing her dead ex boyfriend, her family thinks she might also be schizophrenic. Throughout the book, weird things keep happening to her. Her house keys go missing, she finds a dead cat on her doorstep, her mirrors are written on in blood, she finds pictures on her camera that were taken at the foot of her bed…

In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, symbolism plays an important part in portraying the theme of the story, which is how women are always the oppressed one in a relationship. “The Yellow Wallpaper” opens with the narrator stating how she is being kept in a summer house where she is not allowed to do anything except rest because of her condition. While in the house, her husband, John, dominates her and controls every decision she makes. At the end of the story, the narrator…

After reading the short excerpt about Maria, I quickly realized that she is experiencing nerve issues. The median nerve supplies movement and feeling to the palm, thumb, index finger, and middle finger. (JH and Zhao M) Maria is undergoing numbness, and tingling in her thumb, index, and middle fingers, with an aching pain in the palmar sides of her wrists. Maria’s most likely diagnosis is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, or CTS. While there is no direct correlation between typing on a computer for an…

In Kate Chopin’s novel, The Awakening, Edna Pontellier experiences a revelation about the lack of freedom she experiences as a woman in the 1890’s. The book covers her progression of thought and her transformation from repressed but yearning for freedom to her attempts at full freedom from society’s dictations, building up to her suicide. Chopin fills the book with underlying motifs that symbolize Edna’s gradual change, one of these being clothing. Edna’s awakening mirrors an alteration in…

The Literary Devices in “The Yellow Wallpaper” Throughout life, there are many people who go through depression, which can change a person’s whole life. In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, focused on the main character Jane, also the narrator deals with depression. Due to her depression, she is isolated in a room with “yellow wallpaper” so she can recuperate. There are many literary devices used in the story to explain what the narrator is going through. The…

Example 1: The movie which I have found related to the subject of bullying is “Odd Girl Out”. This movie was directed by Tom McLoughlin in 2005. The story of the movie is based on the novel “Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls”. This movie covers the story of the victim of bullying of a girl named Vanessa Snyder by his female classmates, Stacey, Nikki and Tiffany. Nasty rumor, web of lies is spared by Nikki about Vanessa that causes a great psychological disturbance for…

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” was written in 1894 and explores the position of women within the 19th century society. An interesting aspect of this short story is that it is an early example of feminism in literature. Chopin is subtle, but very effective, in criticizing marriage and the role and position of women during the Victorian Era. The purpose of this essay is to make an approach into the mythic constructions of femininity in this Kate Chopin’s story but also to explore how the…

In the nineteenth century, European and American women lived in an era described by gender inequality. Women had few of the social, legal, or political rights: they had extremely restricted control over property after marriage, they didn't have the right to vote or even testify in court, and were barred to enrolled any higher education institutions. To add more, Women were expected to remain obedient to their husbands and fathers, their occupational choices were also extremely limited.(Olson,…