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    1. Interpretative lens: Feminist 2. Question: does the Narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper have any independence? 3. Thesis: The Narrator, who consistently seeks freedom of speech and expression, does not possess the ability to become independent due to the underlying bias of a patriarchal society in which she is entrapped by her significant other. 4. Arguments A. Argument #1 Introduction: John’s domination over the Narrator is evident from the beginning of the short story. The Narrator remains

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    In the “Cask of Amontillado” and “The Yellow Wallpaper,” both main characters suffer from severe psychological disorders or diseases of the mind. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor’s characteristics and actions all indicate psychopathy. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” The narrator’s delusions, hallucinations, and obsessive behaviors all demonstrate schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder. I. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor suffers from an anti-social personality disorder (psychopathy)

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    How does society’s values and beliefs shape individuals? In society men are considered to be more dominant over women, which restricts the rights of women to have the equal freedom that men have. Because of this, it really stops womens to have thoughts on how their life runs. In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, it is shown in a first person view of a woman who is caged in a room by her physician husband, who believes she is suffering from a temporary nervous depression

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    significant role as she fought against the common, marginalized label that had been put on women during the time period. In her short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", Perkins utilizes recurring, vivid imagery to highlight the theme of the unjust isolation of women. With the use of a distant house, a secluded garden, a shut window, and a useless wallpaper, Perkins conveys the message that the 20th century was plagued with the oppression of men by the social segregation of women in the United States

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    expectations that John has told her of. This causes her to believe what he claims to be true, rather than having her own opinions and statements. The mental issue soon causes the narrator to destroy everything that she’s surrounded by, especially the wallpaper, in hopes that this could help her cope with her feelings. Gilman’s overall message to the audience is how women are forced to believe in sexist expectations. In Claire Miller’s, “Sexes Differ on Persistence of Sexism,” she is explaining how being

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    In Gilman’s story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, she points out the societal norms for women and the injustice they faced when it came to the societal expectations of women and the treatment from their husbands. Gilman’s main character progresses from being mentally ill to mentally insane, all because of The story begins with the main character, who is sick, yet we’re not given an explanation to what her illness is. Her husband and her brother, who are both doctors, give a diagnosis of “slight hysterical

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    Perkins Gilman’s story, “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” which is set in the 19th century, the narrator suffers from what is now identified as Postpartum depression, after the birth of her child. The narrator’s husband, John, who is a doctor, suggest that she gets some rest, and places her in a nursery with walls that contain yellow wallpaper. Over the course of the story, the narrator’s

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    strong feminist and it can be seen throughout her writing, reason for this is her personal experiences, causing it to change the way she refers when writing about the opposite sex. Our last author would be Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author of “The Yellow Wallpaper” showing how personal experiences can be a great influence when it comes to writing down their feelings in a piece of paper. Stating the difficulty she had for various years: For many years I suffered from a severe and continuous nervous

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    The Awakening and The Yellow Wallpaper

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    Kate Chopin's story The Awakening and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story The Yellow Wallpaper draw their power from two truths: First, each work stands as a political cry against injustice and at the socio/political genesis of the modern feminist movement. Second, each text is a gatekeeper of a new literary history. Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman seem to initiate a new phase in textual history where literary conventions are revised to serve an ideology representative of the "new" feminine

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    The “Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Gilman, consists of diary entries written by the narrator, a middle aged mother who has been kept in a room by her doctor and husband due to her health condition. Her husband believes she is suffering from a temporary nervous depression and refuses to even consider that it could be anything otherwise. The narrator suffers from an illness more severe, than what her husband thinks, which leads to her abnormal actions. In the story, the author emphasises on the themes

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