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    Oscar Wilde was born in the Victorian age and lived in a high-class family. Basically his purpose for writing this play was to mock the ignorance and arrogance of upper-class Victorian society‚ especially the values of marriage at the time. In Victorian times‚ the parents decided their child’s marriage. Lady Bracknell mostly valued Jack’s age‚ income and bloodline. “You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter ---a girl brought up with the utmost care---to

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    “Califonia Consort: Piano Quintet” The consert was my first time and delightful that I had a opportunity to listen to classical music through the first concert‚ two Piano Quintets performed by Karen Follingstad‚ Alyze Dreiling‚ Susan Ung‚ Lorie Kirkell‚ Bert Turetzky at the Incarnation Lutheran Church on February‚ 19‚ 2012. The performance consisted of two pieces and the first piece performed was Piano quintet‚ Op 87 written by J.N. Hummel in the end of classic era and the second piece was Piano

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    The Yellow Wallpaper How can a simple old yellow wallpaper drive someone insane? “The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ a short story by Charlotte Gilman‚ is about a married couple whose wife is a little sick‚ and John (her husband) forbidden her leave a room that has old yellow wallpaper where she’s left alone constantly and the lack of something to occupy her time causes the her to become delusional. John’s assumption of his own superior wisdom leads him to dominate his wife‚ all in the name of “helping” her

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    The Yellow Wallpaper The Yellow Wallpaper uses symbols to show the hardship that women had to endure to fight oppression. By showing these hardships‚ we gain the knowledge that we don’t always make the right decisions. We believe that we are giving people freedom when in turn we are oppressing them even more. Gilman uses symbols throughout her story in a variety of ways. In The Yellow Wallpaper Gillman uses the house to symbolize a body. The speaker describes the outside as “beautiful and delicious

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    Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest While some critics contend that The Importance of Being Earnest is completely fanciful and has no relation to the real world‚ others maintain that Oscar Wilde’s "trivial comedy for serious people" does make significant comments about social class and the institution of marriage. These observations include the prevalent utilization of deceit in everyday affairs. Indeed the characters and plot of the play appear to be entirely irreverent‚ thus

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    Truth Charlotte Perkin Gilman is internationally known for her short story‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Gilman was born on July 3‚ 1860. After marriage‚ she endured depressions several times shortly after her first daughter was born. Gilman suffered from mental breakdowns which soon lead to melancholia. Her personal experiences‚ dealing with post-partum depression‚ are what inspired Gilman to write the story‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper”. This story revolves around the main character‚ Jane‚ and how she copes

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    Assignment: „The Yellow Wallpaper“: Autobiography or fiction? Regarding the first supporting evidence where this short story is regarded as an important work of feminist literature that illustrates the attitudes of the 19th century towards women‚ more specifically their mental and physical health which the author tried to show according to her personal experience. The short story is actually a first personal journal entry that was written by a woman whose husband was a physician that had confined

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    Chelsey French Stacy Phillips ENGL 1010 November 28‚ 2012 The Yellow Wallpaper Approximately 10 to 15% of women suffer from postpartum mood disorders‚ including postpartum depression‚ postpartum anxiety‚ and postpartum psychosis ("How Many Women Get Postpartum Depression? The Statistics on PPD"). “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a story about a woman‚ whose husband takes her away to a home out in the country. She is to believe that she has a temporary nervous condition‚ by which her husband‚ a doctor

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    freedom and independence women have in today’s society did not come casually. It is the result of many feminist intellectuals that advocated reforms in the definition of women’s role in the deformed social structure of nineteenth century America. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman presents to readers the domesticated female oppression in the late nineteenth century that haunted many women. Written in 1892‚ a cultural context where society dictates that women listen to their husband‚ Gilman

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    I am currently reading Symphony for the City of the Dead by M.T. Anderson. As of last night‚ I am in the second part of three total parts. In the section I read for this week‚ the book continues with the struggles of Dmitri Shostakovich’s musical partnerships. To summarize this week’s reading‚ Dmitri had to work with the minds of Vsevolod Meyerhold‚ a Russian and Soviet theatre director and Vladimir Mayakovsky‚ a Russian Soviet poet and playwright. The Bedbug‚ a comedic play by the trio would be

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