...The story “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman tells the story about a woman named Jane, who writes in her journal about a summer home her and her husband will be staying at. Her husband John, who is a physician assures others that she only has temporary nervous depression. Because of her illness she is not supposed to do anything active, including writing. She feels that writing and having freedom can help her get better, so she begins to write in a secret journal. Particularly when she writes in her journal she describes a disgusting yellow wallpaper she sees in her room. She becomes fixated on the wallpaper and instead of hating it, grows fonder of it. She becomes more and more obsessed with it that she starts to see a woman trying to escape. As the summer goes on she continues to write about the yellow wallpaper, and the woman trying to escape from the paper. She has completely gone insane when her husband breaks down the door and faints at the site of her creeping around, and peeling off all the wallpaper. The theme behind this story is that lack freedom can lead to insanity. Throughout Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the elements of fiction conflicts, symbolism, and characters all represent the theme, that lack of freedom can lead one to insanity. The first element of fiction that connects with the theme that lack of freedom can lead to one’s insanity is the conflicts Jane faces throughout the story. The first main conflict...
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...There are many names to call her but I’ll start with Joan. Joan stands about five feet, three inches. She’s heavy set woman with blackish-red hair. Joan looks very young for her age of sixty-three. Joan dresses very professional most of the time. Her skin is fair like her mothers. Her nails and toes are always some variation of red, purple or pink. Joan is a technology fanatic. She has two phones, two laptops, three kindles, and other cool gargets. She has a huge collection of shoes and purses. Joan also loves to read. She has enough books to fill a small library. She’s a very emotionless person. She’s always strategic. No one will ever see her upset or frustrated or even angry. Living with her forces people to hide all their emotions. She’s used to being a boss and doesn’t deal well with confrontation. She’s constantly stressed and hides in her room so that the kids never bother her. She’s taught people how to behave around her without saying a word....
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...concentration camps, the Wiesel’s maid, Maria, offered the family to go hide in her village:”Maria, our former maid, came to see us. Sobbing, she begged us to come with her to her village where she had prepared a safe shelter”(20). THe maid’s act of risking her life trying to save the Wiesel family is an excellent example of not being...
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...Accidential de Massacre Greek Drama Scene 1: [Note: all rebels who are sitting down on this scene will stand up if they have a part which they will say something] Mohammed: If it wasn’t for the government stealing our precious oil, we would be rich! We should find a way to regain what is ours! Rebel1: I have heard that the daughter of the president will be traveling in Davao, I propose we should kidnapped her and make her ransom, so they couldn’t help themselves but to give our riches back Rebel2: I believe we have men in Davao; we could use them as our mobile in this plan Mohammed: Now that’s what I’m talking about, I’m impressed; we shall discuss then the plan of our abduction then… (Group laughing while discussing the plan [all rebels will stand up in this part]) Mohammed: (*making a call*) hello? I have something I want you to do Scene 2-4: President: Be careful of some people in Mindanao okay? Julia: Of course mom, I’ll try my best! President: Oh, come here before you go (*hug*) Julia: Come on Mom! Loosen up, I’ll be late in my flight…Bye I love you~ President: I love you too~ Remember call me once a day, you take care now --- (*daughter traveling with her two body guards*) Leader 2: (*hand signal*) Rebels: (*running behind a wall, trying to prepare for kidnapped*) (*Keziah trying to stand up*) Leader 2: Don’t get too close yet, Men! Prepare for contact (*cue for Abihail to leave on the plane*) Leader 2: NOW! (*assassinated Richell, Renee badly...
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...The Yellow Wallpaper and the Wallpaper The short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is about a woman (the narrator) who becomes crazy. She loses touch with the outside world because she is isolated in one room in such a large house. In this short story there are two symbols, people and the bedroom who affect the women in many different ways. Some of these things may seem innocent to her but are a little bizarre to us. The theme of this short story is self-expression. This poor woman is dealing with depression and is being forced to hide her fears and anxiety from everyone so it looks like she is winning the battle. The setting of this short story is mostly takes place in her bedroom. Her husband John is a physician and he said she is sick and needs to stay in her room and rest. So she can’t go outside or interactive with anyone or even her newborn baby. In the beginning of the short story she says “[The house] is quite alone standing well back from the road, quite three miles from the village. It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate little houses for the gardeners and people." Meaning that the house looks like a quiet place surrounded by no other houses just like her, she was stuck in a quiet room with just herself. Also she said “A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity- but that would...
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...“Marisol” is about a young, naïve woman who relatively has her life figured out. She goes to work, keeps her head down, and goes home. Her current reality is a place where apples and coffee are extinct while cows produce salty milk. She tries to hide her religion and culture from the people in her life so that she can fit in. Then suddenly, she was attacked by some supposedly crazy man with a golf club on a subway train who is going on and on about angels and the end of the world. She manages to escape but not without being infected with the mass hysteria. I believe this is when Marisol begins to slip through a different reality. There is a theory of alternate realities which indicates that there is a thin fabric of reality similar to our own but each reality branches off and continues on another path based on decisions made in our life. Since there is a war between God and the angels then it is possible with the death of the angels that other realities can tear and bleed into each other. I believe this is what happened to Marisol on the subway. I believe she slipped into her own alternate reality where she actually died on the subway. Therefore, as more and more angels perish, the more alternate and surreal her reality becomes. The confusion that she experiences further indicates that this isn’t her world anymore. When she is confronted with the reality that God is old and doesn’t care about Earth as well as an angel uprising, she refuses to believe that she can take care of...
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...Trust is an issue that is often problemcatic. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the character Hamlet trusts only a small number of people. He hides his real personality and opinions from his friends and family. Hamlet, to fool others, often changes his character. He questions the loyalty of his friends and family. In the play, friends and family cannot be trusted. Hamlet does not trust those who are close to him because of the numerous betrayals from his family and friends. Hamlet is unable to trust others due to the fact that his family and friends are willing to betray him. When Hamlet’s mother remarries, he speaks of how he feels he has been betrayed by his mother: “‘By what it fed on, and yet within a month – Let me not think on’t; frailty, thy name is woman! … Would have mourn’d longer, - married with my uncle, My father’s brother, but no more like my father … With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to good; But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue!’” (Act I scene II, 145 – 159.) Hamlet feels betrayed by his mom because of her marriage to his uncle, but he cannot voice his opinion to her. Along with his feelings of betrayal, he feels angry about her quick decision to marry again. He links her quick remarriage with her inability to control her sexual desires. He is furious at the fact that his mother prefers instant pleasure over love, and feels that his...
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...Reaction paper to The Wife of Bath Prologue I love The Wife of Bath. The tale features a character that seems to resemble a feminist. But in Chaucer’s time, feminism was something completely crazy and the pilgrims reacted negatively to it. Even though the pilgrims thought she was bonkers, The Wife of Bath had no fear about displaying herself as she really was. She wasn't ashamed of the fact she had been married five times, and was about to marry again. She hid nothing. She was fierce. In the prologue that I read, the pilgrim did not see the Wife of Bath as an upstanding woman, but she didn't desire to be seen as what one would call an “upstanding woman.” Almost as soon as she began speaking in the prologue, she explained that she had gone through five husbands, and she was on the look out for a sixth. The Wife says that she married for money: "...I’ll tell the truth. Those husbands I had, three of them were good and two of them bad. The three I call “good” were rich and old.” The Wife even goes on saying that she didn’t value her husbands’ love. Then again, why should she have to? She received everything her female heart desired: money, control, and power. She swears if all women were be the controlling factors in marriage, they too would gain their husbands’ money. The The Wife for Bath's character reminds me of many women I know, but one really sticks out at the moment, and that's Blanche Deboroe from the 80s sitcom “The Golden Girls.” The Wife of Bath claims that if women...
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...and how male doctors looked at woman with the postpartum depression as if it was no worse than the simple cold. Gilman uses Jane, a young woman, in her story to help express her own views of the feminist world. Along with these views Gilman uses her own journey and experiences through life to depict how painful and unproductive the rest cure actually was for women that male doctors diagnosed them with. As Jane is locked away in this room she begins to discover the woman inside the wallpaper and as she begins to peel away the paper it’s a way she becomes...
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...by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is trapped living in the past and is disillusioned by modernization. Additionally, in the story A Rose for Emily, Emily is also afraid of modernization because she is trying to escape death by holding onto her father’s dead body. She is afraid to move on in her life and decides to hide in her past. Lastly, in one of Langston Hughes poems called Mother to Son, he writes about how in the early 20th century African Americans were not equal to white people and then society began to modernize blacks to become equal. This led to segregation because the white people wanted to isolate themselves from African Americans. Because their dream of what society should be was disillusioned, just like in all three of these literatures. Therefore the results of modernization, isolation and disillusionment was that many people didn’t except a change their life. Gatsby wanted to feel like he was living in the past with Daisy but he was isolated and disillusioned because he was living in a modern society. Additionally, he was isolated because he could not have a social status or Daisy. In the book, Gatsby was a fantastic character because he wanted to hide in the past with Daisy when everything was perfect. While the other characters in this book went with the change of society. Also in the book, Gatsby’s yellow car symbolizes the modernization. Gatsby’s car accidently kills Myrtle, which eventually leads to his death. Gatsby cannot escape modernization or his own...
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...Evelyn How Mr. Catrette Lit/Writ 1 15 May 2015 Defining a Mockingbird Life is like a pair of smudgy glasses. At first finding it difficult to see anything clearly, but once effort is rendered in, seeing everything clearly is a piece of cake. Looking into Maycomb, the glasses gives a virtuous understanding of prejudice. Knowing the neighbors do not exactly hold friendly relationships when there is a crazy man also known as Boo Radley living next door, those who care enough to clean their glasses, are not affected by prejudice, therefore do not believe the circulating rumors. “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee demonstrates the meaning of the mockingbird, innocence throughout the story, using Tom Robinson the black man, Boo...
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...television. In Abernethy’s article, he explains to his readers the problem with the portrayal of men on television and ads and gives examples towards his argument. As for Havrilesky’s article, she reveals to her readers the problem of women getting portrayed as “crazy” by television and also gives examples of different actors on different TV shows. In Abernethy’s and Havrilesky’s articles, they both argue about the media’s...
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...her feel crazy, an example could be in Alan's apartment, when Clare apparently forgot to shut off the oven: "This is so spooky. I swear I turned the oven off last night." And she therefore stated, that Amy has been inside the house, without them knowing it. Alan call her paranoid, because she continues to find reasons and posibilities, how Amy got into the house, example "Amy could have got in … She could have turned the oven on. I expect she still has a key." Again Alan must demystify the things that Clare torment herself with. The relation between Clare and Alan is split up, Alan is truly in love with Clare, but Clare is perhaps afraid of finding a man, because she never had a standing relationship. We see where this is mentioned in this quote "Clare had had lovers but never lived with a man before." That’s why she in the end decides to go away from Alan, who stands powerless back watching his love going away without a word. But the whole problematic starts, when Clare feels that people are strange at the new year's party with Alan's friends. The day after, Clare only focuses on the strange things that happens, and forgot to look at what really matters in her life right now; She was about to begin a long-term relationship with a man. Something she never had tried before, and of cause she was a little nervous, and feared that Amy would do things to hang her out, but the question is, hanging out for what? Clare was a, what I suppose, a normal thirty years old woman, average...
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...This is not my soul. People would think I was crazy if I told them about it… so it’s this white sheet of paper that I’ll bare myself onto. My soul is weak, it has been known to hide and sulk. My soul is wiry and ducks behind backyard fences to get away from bullies. My soul cries and understands the long-term benefits of self pity, and regret. My soul smiles and it nods agreeingly at injustices. My soul does not use my eyes to see, but rather to discern. My soul is logical, and employs reason and not passion. I do not know what a soul is, but this is not my soul. I know it with every fibre of who I am, because I felt it leave and I felt something new … and I felt full. I know because I’m not the same. It was at the third call back. I always get calls backs, but I never get the part. I’m one of those guys who look like they would fit into the costume, or whatever persona they happen to be casting for that day. I look like every guy because I am every guy, but something is missing inside of me. No one tells me what it is, because no one knows. No one knows what makes people who they are, and who theiy aren’t. No one sees inside you. No one looks, so I would imagine the very simple act of taking a soul would go unnoticed, for everyone but the object, and I’d be right. There were three people watching my every move this time; three desperate souls in which their gaze felt almost judgmental against the nervous emotion which was struck upon my face, two were resting on various parts...
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...loss of the family mansion Belle Reve contribute further to her mental instability. The struggle between Blanche and her brother in law Stanley Kowalski are a major focal point of A Streetcar Named Desire; almost immediately after meeting Blanche, Stanly has formed an opinion of her and doesn’t hold back from letting it be known how he feels about her. Stanley is a workingman, he is a brute and makes it very clear that it’s his house and things will be done his way. The problem for Stanley is Blanche is an uncomfortable threat to those things that are his, mainly his wife. Blanche becomes a threat to his way of life; she is a foreign element, who talks funny and puts on airs and prances around with a sense of entitlement. Blanche is a woman he can't...
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