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    Trapped In the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ Charlotte describes a woman’s life under the control of her husband. The story takes place in the late 1800s in a small town in California. The woman is believed to be mentally ill; her husband does not let her go anywhere. The windows are barred‚ the door is locked‚ she is not even allowed to write in a journal. Charlotte grew up in Hartford‚ Connecticut with her mom and big brother. Charlotte’s father left and abandoned the family during

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    belittled and restricted of freedoms and decision making. Glaspell’s play‚ Trifles‚ and Gilman’s "The Yellow Wallpaper"‚ are two comparative examples. These works show how females are tolerated only for their gender stereotyped tasks‚ and how their identities are contingent on their relationships to men‚ despite the male character’s negligence. • Brief Summary of trifles • Brief summary of The Yellow Wallpaper The female characters in these two works were restricted of their rights for identity freedom

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    The Woman Behind the Wallpaper The short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” is written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Gilman had a painful childhood‚ her father left her and her family when she was very young. When she finally settled down‚ she married Charles Stetson. After finding out she suffered from depression‚ Stetson put her in the care of a doctor. After divorcing Stetson‚ she married a guy named George Houghton Gilman. In the book “The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ Gilman is believed to be expressing how she

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    Husband-Doctor: A Stifling Relationship In Gilman’s "the Yellow Wallpaper" At the beginning of "The Yellow Wallpaper"‚ the protagonist‚ Jane‚ has just given birth to a baby boy. Although for most mothers a newborn infant is a joyous time‚ for others‚ like Jane‚ it becomes a trying emotional period that is now popularly understood to be the common disorder‚ postpartum depression. For example‚ Jane describes herself as feeling a "lack of strength" (Colm‚ 3) and as becoming "dreadfully fretful and

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    Submission Smells of Sulfur: Gender and Illness in The Yellow Wallpaper During the 19th century‚ when Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper takes place‚ men reigned and women had little power over the definition of their roles‚ particularly middle and upper class women due to the lack of necessity for them to work outside the home. It was their only responsibilities to be modest‚ God-fearing‚ respectable women who took care of themselves and did not distract their bodies from the

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    The Yellow Wallpaper composed by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Editha written by William Dean Howell both delineate a representative message of what little flexibility ladies had of the nineteenth century. The Yellow Wallpaper demonstrates a very specific example of what role and label women had during the nineteenth century. Seeing and handing-off‚ ladies had been overlooked while the men; rather locate a basic method to manage them‚ tossed them off to the side. In this story‚ the audience view a

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    Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born right before the Civil War ended and was able to experience women’s struggle from inequality before women received equal rights from men. Gilman’s most influential work is a short story called “The Yellow Wallpaper”. This short story is about a woman who suffered from mental illness after giving birth. While the husband tries to help the wife with a treatment‚ the woman managed to become better after being isolated for a while. The main character of the story is

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    -Disease‚ mutation‚ disfunction‚ or virus?: virus and disease -Common name: yellow fever -Scientific name: flavivirus and topotypes -History of oResearched „XWhere: Philadelphia‚ Cuba‚ and South Africa „XWhen: 1800‚ 1881‚ 1901‚ and 1939 „XWhy: It was researched because so many people were infected who were coming to America‚ and so many people were getting infected by the virus who lived near the port. „XHow: It was researched with the Aedes Aegypti

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    Hawaii as an example. It used to be paradise but now it’s a fakery tourist destination. When you fly over the islands all of the other islands are nice and green‚ but when you go over O’ahu you visually perceive Waikiki and Honolulu buildings. "The Big Yellow Taxi" is one of Joni Mitchell’s best musical compositions‚ however it is different of her work in general‚ both in terms of music and subject matter. Mitchell distinguished in interviews that she was inspired to write the musical composition by a

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    The Yellow Wallpaper “The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ is a journal written from a very imaginary‚ inventive character. Jane‚ the narrator‚ is avoiding all her actual problems throughout this journal. Her inner thoughts and motives triumph her external illness. In this story‚ the narrator is the paradox. She has illusions that will not let her understand the extent of her illness. The early ages of the narrator show that she had nightmares and a very creative and artistic mind. The extent of which she pictured

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