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    “Entrapment of women is both physical and metaphorical where characters are imprisoned within their emotions.” Compare and contrast how the authors of The Yellow Wallpaper and Wide Sargasso Sea explore a loss of identity. Physical (and therefore metaphorical) entrapment leads to a loss of identity in both female protagonists presented in The Yellow Wallpaper and Wide Sargasso Sea; it is this loss of identity that arguably causes their descent into madness. Despite being written over half a century

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    Plantar Nerve Entrapment With Rehab Lateral plantar nerve entrapment is a condition that happens when the nerve that passes from the inside of your ankle to your foot (lateral plantar nerve nerve) gets squeezed or compressed (entrapment). The nerve can get compressed between the muscles, bones, and connective tissue near the bottom of your heel. The nerve supplies many of your toe muscles and gives feeling to the outer toes on the bottom of your foot. Lateral plantar nerve entrapment causes heel

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    The sociological imagination is the “quality of mind” (Mills, 1959: 4) that enables individuals to look outside their private sphere of consciousness and identify the structures and institutions in society that influence or cause their personal experiences. In this way, by looking at the bigger picture, they can understand their place in society and explain their circumstance in terms of societal influence. It was developed by Mills in a time of great social upheaval – industrialisation, globalisation

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    In “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin, the author uses the setting to create a feeling of entrapment and suffering by limited possibilities. The setting of this story sets the scene for what the characters have to endure on a day to day basis. The suffering of the people from poverty, prostitution, drugs, crime, and lack of opportunities is something the characters must face daily. Harlem is described in the story like one of the main characters. There is always darkness and inherent danger lurking

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    John, he disregards her. As the story unfolds, the woman faces a growing obsession with the yellow, textured wallpaper in her room. Throughout “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses wallpaper to symbolize the narrator’s feeling of entrapment with her husband through the representation of his control, manipulative gaslighting, and the conflicting feelings of her growing sense of freedom.

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    mother. She or her family will find a suitable mate and they will settle down and start their own lives. There are unfortunate cases when families segregate their daughter(s) from the outside world all for the sake of their own selfish purposes. The entrapment and isolation will cause anyone to feel withdrawn, desperate, and can lead them to insanity. In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” Emily Grierson is an aristocratic southern bell that tries to live her life after her father’s death during the

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    whatever village or neighbours may be nearby is the first hint of physical arrest the narrator describes. One could argue that the thought of jumping out of a window, even if "the bars are too strong to try" is both mental and physical proof of entrapment (Gilman ). The fact that there are bars on the window at all excites a depressive mood . the thought that the narrator would jump out the window if there were not is a display of harmful mental processes.

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    similar elements across different stories to convey similar emotional responses. While Poe uses elements of high emotion and entrapment to create an atmosphere of suspense and despair in both "The Raven" and “The Fall of the House of Usher”, the way he uses entrapment in “The Raven” highlights psychological entrapment while “Fall of the House of Usher” uses physical entrapment. In “The Raven”, the main character is tormented by a Raven who mocks him, reminding him of his deceased wife. The Raven only

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    short stories are “The Black Cat” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”. “The Black Cat” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” both use revenge and entrapment to induce terror; however, “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a better example of entrapment because of Madeline being buried alive. “The Black Cat” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” both use entrapment to induce terror into the reader. “The Black Cat” regards a narrator, often seen as an intoxicated man, neglecting and eventually murdering his

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    and Washington Irving all take advantage of the metaphoric and literal meanings of entrapment and violence in each piece of their gothic literature. In “Prey”, “Black Cat”, and “The Devil and Tom Walker” the authors use entrapment to show how evil finds and can hold us one way or another. Similarly violence is incorporated to portray the dangers of what horror can inflict on one and those associated. Entrapment metaphorically and literally refers to being trapped by some confining spirit or by

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