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  • Comparing THe Yellow Wallpaper to Prozac Nation

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    The book Prozac Nation is the young writer Elizabeth Wurtzels journal of her depression In the book Wurtzel describes her experience in the depths of a depressive illness her own character failings and how she managed to live through particularly difficult periods while completing college and working as a writer The short story The Yellow Wallpaper by nineteenth century feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman was first published in New England Magazine Gilmans story based upon her own experience with

  • Trauma in In Our Time

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    Leslie Marmon Silkhos Ceremony and Ernest Hemingways In Our Time give us two male characters struggling to socially reintegrate after a comparable traumatic events Each of these characters had a hand in a World War and is now rediscovering the rules and constraints governing mainstream society These veterans have seen particularly disturbing scenes and are now coming back to a world that they no longer understand In understanding the differences in the methods that these two use to reintegrate

  • Literary Devices in To Kill a Mocking Bird

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    The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee like many others of its genre is strongly influenced by the ideas of its author With this book Lee has represented her commentaries with symbols or metaphors although these can sometimes be overlooked too easily in a lengthy novel The characters she has employed to convey or be subjected to these ideas are referred to as the mockingbirds of the book Her ideas of who they are and how they should be treated are manifested in this lesson to the childre

  • Literary Devices in To Kill a Mockingbird

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    The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee like many others of its genre is strongly influenced by the ideas of its author With this book Lee has represented her commentaries with symbols or metaphors although these can sometimes be overlooked too easily in a lengthy novel The characters she has employed to convey or be subjected to these ideas are referred to as the mockingbirds of the book Her ideas of who they are and how they should be treated are manifested in this lesson to the childre

  • Commentary on The Yellow Wallpaper

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    The Yellow Wallpaper The story The Yellow Wallpaper was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892 The narrator of the story suffers from depression or an over active imagination which leads itself to schizophrenia She is motivated to keep a secret journal of her encounters at a summer rental because her tyrannical husband disapproves of her of worrying or speaking about her condition because he has brought her here to rest and relax with the hopes that her condition will improve He means well

  • Commentary on The Yellow Wallpaper

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    The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper evolves a woman who id suffering from post partum depression The woman in the story is anxious and nervous Her anxiety and depression worsen as a result of the proposed treatment prescribed by her husband John She and John rent an old colonial mansion so she can rest at ease and become well Ironically the lack of socialization and involvement in her new born childs life causes her to become insane She becomes obsessed with the

  • Commentary on The Yellow Wallpaper

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    The Yellow Wallpaper In the beginning of the story the narrator seemed as a normal woman It seems she doesnt have much say in her marriage She believes she is sick yet no one believes she is as sick as she claims Once I continued reading I start picking up some abnormalities for example she said This paper looks to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had This isnt normal for a person to say What leads me to believe her problems or illness is much serious then diagnostic As I linger mor

  • Women's Freedom in The Story of an Hour

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    The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin illustrates womens struggle for freedom in the late 1800s This particular story highlights one fictional womans struggle for liberation despite the social expectations and limitations imposed on her and others of her gender while attempting to shed light on the social dilemmas of women during the male dominated 19th century The protagonist of the story is Louise Mallard a woman diagnosed with heart trouble who is unhappily married to Brently Mallard a man wit

  • Analysis of The Return Of The Native

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    A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL The Return of the Native looks at first like a typical nineteenth century novel long with several plots and set in a wide landscape But this tale is really very compact The major action takes place in a years time All of the characters live in the Egdon area and the outside world does not intrude we do not hear for example about the national problems of England All of the major characters are bound together in a dense knot of relationships The structure of this

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