“the Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window”

For example, in paragraph 4, Anthony states “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens...”. She is using logos here to prove that if women are people, they have all rights that other citizens do. By quoting the Constitution she puts the audience in an odd position since they cannot deny the supreme law of the land.

In the first three lines of the poem, Harjo talks about opening oneself up to nature where you feel yourself. She does this by connecting the human body to the sky, earth, sun, and moon.

Women should never be held back by their husbands because they are women. Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an author from Connecticut who wrote the story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” She was a utopian feminist during a time period when her accomplishments were exceptional for women. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator (identified as Jane) suffers from depression following the birth of her baby. Her husband diagnoses her with hysteria and prescribes “the rest cure.” Trapped at home, Jane grows bored. She’s set away from everyone but her husband and nurse, and she’s not allowed to write, though this makes her feel better. Her condition quickly worsens. She starts to

Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses her short story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” to show how women undergo oppression by gender roles. Gilman does so by taking the reader through the terrors of one woman’s changes in mental state. The narrator in this story becomes so oppressed by her husband that she actually goes insane. The act of oppression is very obvious within the story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and shows how it changes one’s life forever.

Gilman's use of narrative structure is important in depicting the fragmentation of the woman's mind. Through the course of the story sentences become increasingly choppy and paragraphs decrease in length. This concrete element of fiction illustrates the deterioration of that narrator's psychological well-being and mental surmise to the yellow wallpaper.

Days turn into weeks, and after still being exposed to this particular yellow wallpaper, she stars having more severe hallucinations. Every time she looks at the wallpaper, she sees a woman inside it, shaking and moving the walls as if she is trying to escape away from it. Gilman uses the image of this trapped woman inside the wallpaper as a way to express the incarceration of women at her time. By looking at the story from this point of view and analyzing the woman trying to leave the wallpaper, Gilman expresses the revolutionary movement that was going on at the time, using the narrator as a symbol of the whole female society. One critic describes “And in identifying with and freeing both the woman and that part of herself trapped by her patriarchal world, the narrator finds a measure of freedom” (Golden 53). This passage represents Gilman’s society and the struggle that women had go through in order to escape a world dominated by a male society.

In fact, most of them are unidentified and the reader may not identify a specific person that speaks in the different chapters. Thus, the audience may understand it is an embodiment of females focusing on structuring the major theme of the book, which is gender inequality. Additionally, the description of the female characters is equivocal such that the reader has to picture the image of the women. Although the author provides various photos in the book, there is absence of an explanation. Before this, the writer only concentrates on telling the story (Kim,165). Additionally, the author uses poetic approach to explain the setting in the book, which gives the novel distinct styles of writing. In fact, the poems are only meant to provide the reader with a description of the mothers and daughters, and this creates a distinction in the narrative. Resultantly, the audience perceives that when a poem appears in the reading, the author is probably narrating the plight of women. Notwithstanding, the novel uses visual art technique to communicate to the audience. in many instances, the author does not provide a description of an individual such that the reader has to imagine the person. In doing so, the readers are in suspense but the author offers a drawing that may be used to demystify the situation. in support of this style, it is apparent that the visual art may have

these poems follow each other in society that exists even today. As a society, we select who we look up to and who we view as everything. It is from these celebrities that society learns what is beautiful and girls like in Barbie Doll don’t fit in. Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs, In the end, neither of these characters win. They both have their own pressures, brought on by the society they live in. These problems still pervade in our society today. These two poems show that across the board, anyone can feel pressured into committing suicide. It doesn’t matter of the age, gender, or how much money we have everyone can be screwed up. This often is the pressures and expectations of society to be perfect like in Barbie Doll, or the man who everyone wants to be. The American dream is to be rich and famous, to have everyone want to be you. The nightmare of the situation is that you still won’t be happy once you reach this goal. In the same way trying to change something about yourself like the way you look it will lead you to never be happy as you are. There will always be something to change. These poems express that the higher you are placed on a scale

In paragraph 4 Douglass comes to understand injustice after the murder of his wife’s cousin, and we come to know that with "Mr. Gore's defense was satisfactory... His horrid crime was not even submitted to judicial investigation.''. This quote is Logos because of the logistics of the situation, and that's that even though this person killed a human being, he will still not be tried for his actions while had I committed that crime I would have been tried. This quote even speaks towards american values and that value is family as a family member of Douglass has been striped away from his life. Logos can also be found in metaphors or in analogies, like in this quote “We were all ranked together at the valuation. Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine. There were horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the same rank in the scale of being”. What this quote is speaking about is how low these humans are value in their society, so low that their value is comparable with pigs and sheep. This quote shows how men aren't really equal to other men but instead are equal to other

The mood of the story shifted from nervous, anxious, hesitant even, to tense and secretive, and shifts again to paranoid and determination. Her anxiousness is evident whenever she talks to John. She always seems to think for lengthy time when attempting to express her concerns about her condition to him. The mood shift from anxious to secretive is clear when she writes “I had no intention of telling him it was BECAUSE of the wall-paper.” (9). She wants no one to figure out the affect the wallpaper has on her and she wants to be the only one to figure out its pattern. The final mood shift to determination is obvious when she writes “But I am here, and no person must touch this paper but me – not ALIVE!” (11). She is steadfast in attempting to free the woman from the wallpaper. She even goes as far as to lock herself in the room to make sure that she is not interrupted. The major conflicts of this story are the narrator versus John over the nature of her illness and its treatment and the narrator’s internal struggle to express herself and claim independence. During the entire story her and John’s views about her treatment conflict with each other, especially when it comes to her writing. He even makes her stay in the room upstairs instead of in a prettier room downstairs that she would prefer. She often keeps her views to herself or writes them down in

During this time, women were considered weak, ignorant, and fragile. They were expected to be home makers that could not do anything independently. Both authors used minor characters to support that belief. Gilman used Jennie who was the husband’s sister, and Faulkner used Tobe, Emily’s servant. At the end of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator was ripping the wallpaper off the walls trying to help “the woman” get out of the wall or “prison”. She said to her husband, “And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!” This shows that she is independent. She is proving to her husband that she can get out of this literary cage without anyone’s help. She might’ve lost her sanity, but she finally became

In “The Yellow wallpaper”, the wallpaper is a metaphor that expresses women’s protest against the repression of the society and their personal identity at the rise of feminism. During the Victorian era, women were kept down and kept in line by their married men and other men close to them. "The Yellow Wallpaper", written By Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a tale of a woman, her mental difficulties and her husband’s so called therapeutic treatment ‘rest cure’ of her misery during the late 1800s. The tale starts out in the summer with a young woman and her husband travelling for the healing powers of being out from writing, which only appears to aggravate her condition. His delusion gets Jane (protagonist), trapped in a room, shut up in a bed making her go psychotic. As the tale opens, she begins to imagine a woman inside ‘the yellow wallpaper’.

For centuries women in literature have been depicted as weak, subservient, and unthinking characters. Before the 19th century, they usually were not given interesting personalities and were always the proper, perfect and supportive character to the main manly characters. However, one person, in order to defy and mock the norm of woman characterization and the demeaning mindsets about women, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper." This story, through well crafted symbolisms, brought to surface the troubles that real women face. Her character deals with the feeling of being trapped by the expectations of her husband, with the need to do something creative or constructive, and to have a mind and will of her own. These feelings

It is known in psychology that your mental state plays a significant role in the way you view the environment around you. In The Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman emphasizes this relationship between consciousness and the outside world through the eyes of an upper middle class woman suffering from post partum depression. This woman, the narrator, escapes the oppression she feels from the outside world and her internal conflict, by creating this fantasy world where the wallpaper is the focus of her frustrations. In the beginning, the narrator is a highly imaginable and creative woman who delights in her summerhouse as a “haunted house…

The intersection of confinement and gender is shown in the passage where the narrator says “and she is all the time trying to crawl through. But nobody could climb through that pattern – it strangles so; I think that is why it has so many heads.”, the narrator sometimes sees many, many women imprisoned by the pattern. The pattern she sees on the wallpaper is a microcosm of society in which she, along with all women, is supressed of any desires other than those seen as etiquette.