Yellow Peril

the whole theme of isolation and it reinforces how the human body cannot go very long without communicating with someone else because after all if you take communication out of our DNA we become nothing more than animals. In the chronicles about “A Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, compare the lives of two women being constantly oppressed by males, the traditions of their society, and their inner thoughts. Both stories are set in a patriarchal…

United States women have been marginalized, whether as patients or as practitioners of medicine themselves. Journalist Nellie Bly and writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman are no strangers to this alienation as their works “Ten Days in a Madhouse” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” critique the treatment of women and female mental health patients in the male dominated medical establishment. These works expose how doctors, specifically male as during this time there were little to no female doctors, used…

Mrs. Mallard, a wife in “The story of an hour” by Kate Chopin, who is expected to fit the role of a housewife, leaves her feeling suppressed, devalued and discredited. There has been social inequality within society dating back to 1472 when the Portuguese negotiated the first slave trade agreement and continuous social inequality within society in the present day. Different laws have been passed throughout history, diminishing the rights of individuals in society, this is exemplified throughout…

In literature and film, the taboo topic of mental illness is often utilised as a mechanism to either initiate the plot or convey certain themes within the piece. In Paul Coehlo's 1998 novel, "Veronika Decides to Die", the seemingly successful protagonist, Veronika, chooses to commit suicide as she believes that life is meaningless and empty. On the other hand, "Girl, Interrupted" is a film directed by James Mangold and is based on the memoir written by Susanna Kaysen's, depicting her time in a…

Independent Reading 1: Flannery O'Connor In the short stories Revelation and A Good Man is Hard To Find by Flannery O’Connor both themes for the stories illustrate the there are people who can demonstrate a false aspect of who they really are and once something abruptly triggers them they suddenly show their true selves. For example, in the Revelation Ruby Turpin, a very religious, calm and caring woman and one of the main characters of the short story, The woman has sat in a waiting room…

Julian Maso Mrs. Hubbard English IV 25 November 2015 Images of Women In the literary works, “Spinster,” “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” and “A Jury of Her Peers,” the authors exemplify the theme of negativity through the reoccurring negative connotations, dialects and dialogue presented. Throughout the works, the authors subtly point out the dilemmas between men and women in a relationship over a given amount of time. Though relationships may seem wonderful and heartwarming, in these particular works…

Part One: Losses Case Study: “The Disembodied Lady” Summary: Christina is a mother and programmer who has suddenly lost her proprioception, which refers to her sense of “self”, meaning that she does not feel “aware” of her body. More specifically, she feels paralyzed and disembodied because of her condition, even though she has slowly regained the ability to move again by using her mind. Initially this sensation appeared to her prior to a gallbladder surgery in a frightening dream, in which she…

The Truth Behind Briar Rose Briar Rose by Jane Yolen was written in 1992, is a mystery and a romance novel. Jane Yolen around half of Briar Rose on Judaism. Briar Rose starts as a grandmother called Gemma she is reading to her grandchildren Sylvia, Shana, and Becca. The book flashes forward and Gemma is in a hospital dying, Becca is truly the only one who cares for her. Before Gemma dies she whispers to “Becca I am Briar Rose, I am Briar Rose” (Yolen 17). The family gets her belongings and now…

In the short story "the landlady" by Roald Dahl he explains a interesting story about a sinister elderly lady who teaches Mr. Weaver that things usually are way to good to be true. Dahl builds a sense of foreboding by developing hints that things are usually way to good to be true. Mr. Weaver and the landlady were sitting on the couch drinking tea and talking about the past residence that had stayed there and then she said that one of the past people's "skin was just like a baby's." Why would…

In the beginning of the poem, Bradstreet is sleeping during a calm and quiet night, and then suddenly, she wakes up by “thund’ring noise / And piteous shrieks of dreadful voice” (lines 3-4). She then sees that her house is burning in fire. Terrified, she cries out to God and prays so that God would help her. Her house eventually got entirely burned up, and Bradstreet ended up homeless, but she did not lose hope. She began to pull herself together and realized that God took away something that…