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    Response Paper “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story about a woman that has no power over herself and is told how to think‚ act and live. By todays standers that’s something that is no longer tolerated. Today men and women are looked at equally‚ both with the same amount of power. Using feminist theory one can analyze and criticize the story through symbolism and character. At the start of the Story the narrator is stuck in a time that women are not equal to men

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    interest throughout much of history; this has had a profound impact on women’s ability to express themselves and the quality of their lives” (202). Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ a writer and social reformer‚ is best known for her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”. In it the main character‚ whose name is not given anywhere throughout the story‚ creates a journal to satisfy her needs of being able to express herself. However‚ back during the 19th century‚ it was considered to be unusual for women to write

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    by the wallpaper. This new world brings out various emotions and mental instability. Freud believes that the mind is divided into the parts. The id‚ the ego‚ and the superego. Each is responsible for a psychological function. Id  Part of the unconcious level. largest  The only component of personality that is present from birth  Instinctive and primitive behavior. It also creates images that it believes are real and start to break into the consciousness. Since the wallpaper is the

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    The Yellow Wall-Paper is a story about a woman that knows she is sick‚ mentally (Stetson‚ 647). Her husband‚ John is a physician and he believes she can get better over time but in order for her to get better they had to move to a house that was fairly secluded from the town (Stetson‚ 647). John ensured that she would only be able to stay in her room which he had picked for her at the top of the house where she would not be able to do anything other than sleep and look out her window (Stetson‚ 647)

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    of a young child hosting their first birthday party. I walk into the candle-lit hallway‚ strung with rusted picture frames surrounding faces worn dry through the years. Crystal chandeliers dangle from a leak-ridden ceiling‚ burgundy rose outlined wallpaper droops off the walls. So far‚ so good. “Charlie was-is his name‚ you know? A good man‚ a very good man . I miss him so far away as he is.” I start to ascend up the stairs heading towards the bedrooms‚ leaving the caretakers over pronounced words

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    values; commonly associated with behavior‚ and cognitive development. Gender roles are composed on societies concepts of what femininity and masculinity ought to be. Through history‚ women fought for equality‚ the women’s suffrage movement aimed towards having the right to vote‚ equal education and acceptance of masculine behavior in women. The Yellow Wallpaper‚ written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ is a short story narrated in first person. The narrator collects an assortment of journal entries while

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    At one point in the story I agreed with Tom’s choice of finally getting the yellow sheet of paper into his apartment and the yellow sheet flew out the window again and he burst into laughter instead of going out to get it because it was not worth risking his life. Another point when I agreed with him was when he hit the window with his hand to get back in his apartment. He risked his life and he was smart and optimistic to believe he had a chance of survival. B) One point in the story where I disagreed

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    Reaction Paper—The Yellow Wallpaper The Yellow wallpaper is written in the form of a first person narrative in which the narrator‚ a woman who is suffering from a “temporary nervous depression–a slight hysterical tendency”(Gilman‚ 1892/2014‚ p. 746)‚ is restricted to write and confined to a bedroom by her physician husband John‚ so she can recover from her illness. She however disagrees with her husband’s views and believes that writing would make her feel better. The story is presented as a collection

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    Trapped and Unreliable The two short stories “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe are stories that appear to be totally different from each other‚ but are actually very similar; one of those similarities is the theme of entrapment the stories show entrapment on both a physical and a mental level. We see in these two stories individuals that are not only trapped physically but trapped mentally within their own minds not able to free themselves

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    Composition 3rd Period September 7‚ 2015 “The Yellow Wallpaper” A.) “The Yellow Wall-Paper” is a short story about a woman who is living in a mansion with her husband and she is so obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in her room that it makes her become insane. B.) Level One: Both the husband and the brother of the narrator have the same job. What is their job? Level Two: Why does the author make the wallpaper in the story yellow? If the wallpaper were a different color‚ do you think the story would

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