Herland and Looking Backward are both utopian novels that attempt to portray a perfect society. Herland‚ written by feminist Charlotte Gilman‚ describes a peaceful‚ organized‚ highly efficient society called Herland‚ where competition‚ crime‚ and war are non-existent. Herland is an isolated society composed entirely of women discovered by three men from the real world. In Looking Backward‚ written by Edward Bellamy‚ the main character wakes up in the 21st century to a publicly owned capital where
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become very rich indeed! If you ever need money you only need ask as I’ll send you pounds of gold! New traders have come and they bring delightful Jewelry I found a shiny necklace made of fancy jewels the trader called them “Sapphires” and they are as blue as the faraway ocean. I shall enclose the jewels with this letter‚ tell me how does your brother fare? I still remember when Alois traded me some delicious pickled vegetables that I liked very much… I must go soon traders will come and I have some
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the ability of an author to develop an important internal theme in order to portray a specific message to the audience about the nature of reality. In the short stories‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “An Act of Vengeance” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Isabel Allende respectively‚ there exists a common internal theme of female powerlessness. While both “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “An Act of Vengeance” employ a common theme of female oppression‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper” uses it to analyze a protagonist
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Gilman uses metaphor in The Yellow Wallpaper to comment on the destructive and oppressive social constructions of True Womanhood‚ an ideology present at the time Gilman wrote The Yellow Wallpaper. The eponymous wallpaper is metaphor for not only the narrator’s state of mental deterioration‚ but of the “pattern of social and economic dependence”1 of women‚ reducing them to household servants. The metaphors created in The Yellow Wallpaper lead to a feminist interpretation as each can be argued to comment
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“Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Yellow Wallpaper.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 24.1 (2007): 72. Academic OneFile (InfoTrac). Web. 11 Nov 2011. Faulkner‚ William. “A Rose for Emily.” Making Literature Matter: An Anthology for Readers and Writers. Ed. John Schilb and John Clifford. 4th Ed. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s‚ 2009. 667-674. Print. Getty‚ Laura J. “Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily.” The Explicator. 63.4 (2005): 230. Academic OneFile (InfoTrac). Web. 12 Nov 2011. Gilman‚ Charlotte Perkins
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thirteen. Now at the minor age of 18‚ are feelings have grown vastly for one another. We spend only an hour each day‚ before sun down‚ Together. We always settle to meet at the same place. It beholds no name‚ yet we meet there as its scenery is of a rare encounter. its golden brown trees‚ and luxurious pure green grass can only be described as bespoke beauty. Various couples spend time there to be romantic with their partner‚ and this is the place me and Anna can consume each other with our passion
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Southwest of China‚ and famous for its beautiful sceneries，jewels and precious stones. The local tour guide took us to visit one old mine in morning‚ and in afternoon lead us to go shopping in near shops.In one shop‚ the salesgirl introduced a very pretty diamond to mom at low price. She told mum many beautiful words‚ which attracted mom very much. Finally mom bought it. As my papa is a geologist‚ I remembered he told that diamonds were rare and costly. I was worried mom would be cheated by the salesgirl
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She lives in a misleading/unreal world where her actual life does not match the ideal life she has in her head. She dreams of an elaborate food-based celebration served on fancy china and eaten in the company of rich friends. She possesses no fancy jewels or clothing‚ yet these are the only things she lives for. Without them‚ she feels she is not desirable. “ She had no dowry‚ no expectations‚ no way of being
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thinking to show the signs of a madness that is just beginning. The first begins to think eccentrically when she says “I had no intention of telling him it was because of the wall-paper--he would make fun of me. He might even want to take me away.” (Gilman 7). In Treichler’s criticism‚ it talks about how the shift in language is “Masquarading as a symptom of ‘madness‚’ language animates what had been merely an irritating and distinct pattern” (Treichler 72). The narrator takes on a progressively more
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by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The narrator has a vast imagination but struggles with depression. Her husband John’s solution as her doctor is to forbid her from expressing her-self‚ leading her to insanity. A mind that is kept in a state of forced inactivity is doomed to self-destruction. Everyone needs a way to vent what is heavy in their thoughts. The narrator is so confined from using her mind‚ “But I must say what I feel and think in some way…it’s such a relief!”(Gilman 8). When she gets the
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