In the early 1800s women were given a subservient role in society. In marriage, the husband could be viewed as the warden and the wife as the inmate. This left the woman to become dependent and therefore inferior. In \"The Yellow Wall-Paper\" the author Charlotte Gilman vividly writes the effects...

Free At Last When a reader first reads The Yellow Wallpaper it appears to be a story of a young woman suffering from post pardum depression that slowly ends in the total loss of reality. However, understanding that Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an early feminist, and her writings share a common th...

The Morphing Metaphysical Man Every literary work has an idea or reason for its existence. Authors try to incorporate what is going on in their life or the world when they write. One particular author from the sixteenth century is a superb example of this method. A man named John Donne passed t...

Critic Michelle Kinsey-Clinton makes claims and offers opinion that Sylvia Plath was not, in fact, a feminist as many heralded her, but that instead she was content with her domestic role as mother and wife as long as she was able to continue her writing and her companion was no less than equal to h...

Elizabeth WhittemoreTommy B. McDonellAdrienne Rich Final There are many cultural phantoms that we must face as we write and read in today's society. Adrienne Rich, author of an article titled "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision", tells us of a gender phantom who prevented the development ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," explores the restricted societal roles of both Jane and John. Gilman, a strong supporter of women's rights, focuses on her account with depression through this story (Hill 150). Traditionally, the man must take care of the...

Comparison and Contrast "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "A Rose for Emily" In "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the relationship between an oppressive husband and his submissive wife pushes the protagonist from depression into insanity. "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner is the...

Poetry, like any other form of creative work, is there to express the author\'s thoughts, opinions, and feelings. There are vast strategies that can be applied to help readers make sense of it. Which method you use relies heavily on the poem you are reading. Different poems call on different aspects...

Free At LastWhen a reader first reads The Yellow Wallpaper it appears to be a story of a young woman suffering from post pardum depression that slowly ends in the total loss of reality. However, understanding that Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an early feminist, and her writings share a common theme...

Rudyard Kipling and Virginia Woolf, although both English writers, write from completely different perspectives and with completely different intentions. Kipling's book Kim does not tackle any specific social issues, but instead uses fiction to promote general themes of tolerance and the importance...

What will live be?In the essay "Professions for Women," Virginia Woolf writes that gender profiling can destroy a woman's success in their career. In the essay, she discusses the role of discrimination that was played in her role. She discusses how things are so men oriented. She has a sense of conf...

Caged In: Breaking Through the Walls of OppressionHeld back, caged, strangled, deprived, and hurt. These words begin to describe the feelings that are stressed in Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper". Women have made incredible progress since 1892 when Gilman's short story was written. Charlotte Perki...

Virginia Woolf, in her novels, set out to portray the self and the limits associated with it. She wanted the reader to understand time and how the characters could be caught within it. She felt that time could be transcended, even if it was momentarily, by one becoming involved with their work, art...

Jacobs introduces many different people that touch her life throughout the story. Three of the women characters are Linda Brent, Aunt Martha (her Grandmother), and Mrs. Bruce (the first one). These women are all important characters in the book because they all portray strong women. Jacobs uses thes...

Matthew Eizenga349-72-5161Human Sexuality9:35 T-TH"Win over any woman" is a rulebook for scoring with woman. And it was definitely written from a male perspective. It teaches men to always work a room in tandems; that is when you and your friend(s) are inseparable or put on a show that you are. Als...

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, there are many unmistakable forms of imprisonment against which the unnamed narrator must struggle. Some of these forms are intangible, such as the patriarchal society of the time that restricts women's freedom of movement and their c...