Yellow Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper was published in 1892. The story introduces a candid female protagonist who’s isolation from society, and from her writing, drives her insane. Written from a first person perspective, the story allows the reader to become personally involved with the narrator. Gilman uses symbolism throughout the story, two examples of which are the wallpaper and the wallpaper pattern. The story reveals interesting clues about how mental illness was treated at the time, and how women in particular were repressed by society. Through the use of a first person narrator and symbolism, Gilman ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper places a woman into an insane Victorian environment for the purpose of demonstrating the insanity of the insanity of the Victorian Woman. It is an ingenious plan to “show” rather than “tell” the repercussions of a social construct that respected and repressed women at the same time.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman is one of the most intelligent of the early feminist writers. Having published over 200 writings, she blatantly blows the collar of Victorian imagery off the necks of women everywhere. When Gilman started writing, the role of women was to act “as ...

The short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was first published in 1892. The story shows a woman brought to an “ancestral house” by her husband who is a physician, due to her nervous condition. She is convinced she is sick, but her husband doesn’t believe it is anything significant, instead explaining it as all in her head. Her husband insists she does nothing but rest, leaving her alone in a large upstairs room, which was once a nursery, while he is gone often overnight. She becomes seemingly obsessed with the wallpaper, and while at the beginning simply complains ...

In “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses diverse literary applications to develop her message to the readership. Her narration becomes memorable because of the level of involvement she makes with her readers. For example, she uses such literary elements as character, plot and style to deliver her message.
Gillman’s story is extremely insightful in its narration of patriarchal societies. The story tells about a woman who suffers from depression after the birth of her child. Her husband then secludes her in a summerhouse. The house is rented but has pathetic conditions that further worsen the treatment of the ...

Culture and identity has been enormously portrayed by authors in a number of literary works. This paper intends to discuss the culture and identity in three different literatures, The Raisin in the Sun, The Yellow Wallpaper, and I'm nobody! Who are you along with further discussion about several other related aspects of the subject matter.
The Raisin in the Sun is a brilliant piece of literary work by Lorraine Hansberry. The author is well known for his portrayal of cultural and identical issues. In the play, raisin in the sun, the author widely discusses the African American culture. The story ...

“The yellow Wallpaper” is a cut throat short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and it tries to reconstruct the nature of American women lives and their roles in the nineteenth century society .During the era, women were treated as mere objects and men tried as much as possible to use their skills, power and ability to dominate and limit women.

The protagonist of the story Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the narrator and she describes her life as a woman, mother, and wife. Immediately after the birth of her son, she is presented to suffer from a mental disorder described as 'post-partum depression, ...

Compare and Contrast Robert Frost’s

Robert Frost and Eudora Welty both writers, lived thirty years apart; whereas Frost writes poetry and Welty writes novel and short story, a comparison and contrast of these two works will show that the setting of their writings is nature.

The two works, “The Road not Taken”, and “A Worn Path,“ begin with a description of nature, and they are set apart by one season. Frost’s poem begins: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” suggesting that it is fall. There are several yellow flowers that bloom in spring, however, it could not have been spring, since the poet distinctly says “ ...

The cold and uncaring blue gets a reddish tinge to express inbuilt emotion and slowly moves toward the bright and ferocious red mixed with bright yellow to create the orange symbolizing energy but confusion. There are lots of emotions embedded in the picture but are not vivid and the coldness is spread everywhere which has created distance between people. The image colourpsychology-red moves on to depict hidden blue and yellow together to make it green and display that section which is still calm and composed however there are other sections that have the darker side and are powerful demonstrations of ...

Introduction

Zika virus also termed as ZIKV is a known to have gained worldwide attention, especially in the USA, South East Asia, and Australia. The Zika belongs to the Flaviviridae family which comes under the genus Flavivirus (Wikan & Smith. 2016). The Zika virus is spread though day time mosquitoes belonging to the Aedes family. Some of the most common mosquitoes to contain and spread Zika include A. aegypti and A. albopictus. The name of Zika originated in 1947 where it was first isolated from the Zika forest in Uganda. Based on evidence, the Zika virus was associated with varying viral ...

The novel The Great Gatsby was written by F. S. Fitzgerald in 1925. It continued the Dreiser’s theme of the American tragedy. The events took place in the Jazz age. Imagine a country at the height of its economic growth. The world is ruled by money, luxury, prosperity, and well-being. The twenties were the happiest time in the United States. Nobody could even imagine the Great Depression. At the street musicians started to play improvised jazz, which displaced the old classical styles in music. It was the golden age in the American literature that gave us the works of ...

During the 19th Century, the society confined women in homes as housewives and mothers. Men were allowed to venture outside the home to fend for the family. Men were considered authoritative; they made decisions on behalf of their families. Charlotte Gilman explores the mind of a woman who struggles to tear the layers of wallpaper placed by the society. She struggles after giving birth to her child to liberate the opinionated and intellectual woman within her from the societal myth of male superiority.

Contrary to the belief of her counterparts, she believes “that congenial work, with excitement and change, would ...

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to show how the western media reported the Sino Japanese war and how China and Japan were portrayed. Several news reports portray the Chinese as being aggressive and violent individuals thus presenting the perception of the Chinese as being less victimized in the war. In contrast, the western media portrays the Japanese as being a rational and courteous group of people while their negative roles and atrocities in both world war II and Sino Japanese war have been overlooked. This paper will further identify the underlying reasons for ideological inclinations of wartime reporting. ...

The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, is a short story that was written in order to describe the total inefficiency of medical treatment for postpartum depression in its era, and to create a greater awareness of the lack of medical understanding of the condition. As such, the storm describes the primary character’s deteriorating mental health, as she descends into madness as a result of her depression. More specifically, her description of her environment, and the personification of the wallpaper directly represents her deteriorating mental condition. As the wallpaper’s descriptions become more vivid and charactuerized, the narrator’ ...

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Annotated Bibliography

Dalirian, Zohreh, Alienation in Edward Hopper's and Jackson Pollock's Paintings (Wichita, Kan.: Wichita State University, 2010.
In this published dissertation, Zohreh Dalirian compares Pollock’s alienation to that of Edward Hopper as expressed through their different artworks. He views Pollock’s art as a metaphor for his life. The alienation captured in his artwork can be used to explain his psychological characteristics. This work may be used to explore the link between artistic expression and psychology.
Fisher, K, "Expressing The Age: How The Painting Of Jackson Pollock Displayed The Political Culture Of Abstract Expressionism.", Philogia, Vol. 2, ...

Throughout Clarice Lispector’s novella, The Hour of the Star, colors and sounds are used to convey a feeling or message. The story is a very sad story about a young misfortunate girl from North-east Brazil who is suffering from tuberculosis. The story is told through the perspective of a male writer who is struggling with the young girl’s suffering. Lispector used an array of colors and sounds to entice emotion from the reader. This use of colors and sounds were both well-developed elements in the book, and these elements will be discussed throughout this essay.
The primary sound “bang” was ...

Violence of colors in “The Raven” and “Lenore”

In the poems “The Raven”, “Lenore” Poe inquires the loss of ideal beauty and the difficulty in getting it back. These two poems are narrated by a young man crying over the untimely death of his beloved.
In “The Raven,” Poe successfully unites his philosophical and aesthetic ideals. In this piece, a young scholar who is emotionally exhausted of the phrase “Nevermore” repeated by a raven in answer to his question about the probability of an afterlife with his deceased lover.
“Lenore” shows different ways in which the dead are best remembered, either by mourning or celebrating life beyond earthly ...

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (“Prufrock”) was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (“Poetry”). It was written by American-British poet T. S. Eliot (“Eliot”) (1888–1965). Eliot first started work on the poem in February, 1910. As the Overseas Editor of Poetry, Erza Pound (“Pound”) had instigated the whole business (n.a., n.d., “Bio,” 2014; and McCoy, 1992).
Prufrock has been studied by many, many talented scholars. In fact, what makes it such an outstanding piece of poetry is the fact that people can read so many meanings into it. ...

Sometimes people are searching long time for a place where they will feel comfortable. It depends on many factors. Memories are too important. In my opinion, if something bad happens in the house where you live it will be hard to stay there longer. The same thing happened with the author of the story. After her parents, divorced house where she lived with her parents became prison for a little girl. People can create a mood of places. No matter where you live. People who live around you are important. First piece"yellow house" is a good example of this. Every place has a ...

At the turn of the 20th century, the roles of women remained unchanged and their social obligations were limited within the domestic sphere. Gilman’s work is revelation of inner thoughts of a woman trapped within her domestic life. This situation is apparent in the American culture back in the early 1900s. It is the period wherein American culture sees woman as an unpaid emotional slave endowed with a particular task of tending to her family’s needs. In addition to the agitation that women feel due to the kind of imprisonment they perceived during marriage, they also feel the pressure ...

Classic English Literature

Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was first published in a poetry magazine in 1915. Later Eliot published other poems in the 20th century for which he was awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. This poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a contemporary poem because it was written when Britain was considered among the modern countries of the world. This was before the beginning of World War I. It is narrated in a dramatic monologue where we find the speaker very unhappy and in mental agony. The poem became a master piece because its ...

Discussion Board Answers

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When Jackson Jackson means that he has been “disappearing” slowly, “piece by piece,” (Alexie 401) he talks about his dissolving identity, on a number of fronts. First of all, his Native American culture has been trampled on by the brutal materialism of the American Dream, and his grandparents have passed away, taking with them his sense of personal history. As a result he has drifted from wife to wife and has now been homeless for six years. All it takes, though, is the return of his grandmother’s regalia for him to feel a sense of belonging: “I knew that ...

Classic English Literature

Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was first published in a poetry magazine in 1915. Later Eliot published other poems in the 20th century for which he was awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. This poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a contemporary poem because it was written when Britain was considered among the modern countries of the world. This was before the beginning of World War I. It is narrated in a dramatic monologue where we find the speaker very unhappy and in mental agony. The poem became a master piece because its ...