Peggy Mitchell

Charlotte Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” is centered on the deteriorating psychological condition of the female narrator. As a woman in a male dominating society in the 19th century, the narrator has no control over her life. This persistence eventually evolves into her madness. The insanity is triggered by her change in attitude towards her husband, the emergent obsession with the wallpaper and the projection of herself as the women behind the wallpaper. The “rest cure” which was prescribed

Lifting the Bell Jar Representation is power. For instance, United States in 1950 underrepresented women, most notably those with mental illnesses. Most of their stories are irretrievable, but Sylvia Plath’s is not. Plath was a writer with depression and suicidal tendencies, and her novel, The Bell Jar, helped to break the stigma of women with mental illnesses in society. Plath’s personal experience with her illness and how she showed it in this semi-autobiography helped to bring the issue of women

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, published in January of 1892.  The short story is focused on the issue of women's health and mental disorder. It is often referred to as a feminist or psychological short story. The setting in time is based in the late nineteenth century,  in an America. The narrator has a struggle between her husband and her mental health illness, the conflict relates to how the doctor or her husband in other words wants to cure

As soon as everyone had entered the house, they noticed the first off putting clue; the kitchen was a disaster. Inspecting the kitchen, the County Attorney quickly states, “Here’s a nice mess” and goes about inspecting everything (Glaspell 1082). The relationship between the two didn’t seem to be the best and he may have been controlling, but she had no care after he was gone. With the murder of her husband, Mrs. Wright didn’t seem to mind the dirty room, but it might have been because now that he

The story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman illustrates how a girl becomes insane over other the color of a wall. She becomes so intrigued with the color, which was yellow, that she would constantly observe it every moment she could. There seemed to be a picture of a girl hiding behind the wallpaper, so the narrator would try to help her out behind the cage bars that she was in. Her husband would try to help her as much as possible by telling her not think about certain things and

(Title) The poem (title of poem) depicts a moment of a woman's stay at the hospital, where she experiences pain and depression. The author of the poem engages with and addresses major themes such as detachment in biomedicine, experience of being in the hospital from the patient’s perspective, the meaning of illness, and the experience of illness for the patient. The narrative can be compared to Arthur Kleinman’s the Illness Narratives, Meri Nana-Ama Danquah’s Willow Weep for Me, Autobiography of

Christina Rossetti’s narrative poem, “The Goblin Market,” displays some allusions and themes in this poem. Mostly, Rossetti tells a story of sisterhood, overcoming temptation and experiencing restoration. Laura and Lizzie both endured the temptation of fruit; Laura suffered the worst as her health declined and aging away to death. Lizzie’s determination to help her sister shows love and sacrifice for Laura’s well-being, similar to how Christians described Jesus Christ’s love for them by dying on

The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In order to rest, a woman is taken by her husband to a country house. Her husband forbid her to write in order to avoid getting tired. She neglect the advices of her husband and keep writing secretly, but the wallpaper of the room where she resides puts her in deep discomfort. Since she can not write as she pleases, she projects her imagination and pain on the yellow wallpaper of her room, and begins to see monstrous human forms constantly in motion

The book Franny and Zooey is about a girl named Franny going through a mental breakdown and her older brother Zooey helping her through it. Franny and Zooey have two older brothers named Buddy and Seymour, who is deceased, that influenced their lives greatly. Seymour and Buddy’s teachings of religion, education and society lead up to Franny’s dissatisfaction, crisis, and the resolution to her breakdown. Franny is at home on her parents couch crying, not eating and sleeping. Franny is having a mental

Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and the Consideration of Psychological Traumas Women Face in the Lack of Control Over Their Reproductive Organs I. Objective The objective of this study is to examine Mary Shelly's work 'Frankenstein' and to consider the psychological traumas women face in the lack of control over their reproductive organs. II. Introduction Women throughout the world have experienced psychological trauma over the lack of control over their reproductive organs and whether this trauma