Being the central image of the whole story, the yellow wallpaper plays a very important role towards the understanding the narrator's conflict. The patterns on the yellow wallpaper are a visual representation of the narrator's mental state --- bizarre and confused. ... Firstly, the wallpaper is an interface between the narrator's world and the world of the creeping woman. ... The wallpaper might also be a symbol of the interface within Jane's mind. ... The overlapping interfaces in The Yellow Wallpaper add to the confusion and the complications in the book which are again a...

• Word Count: 1540
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The character of Joe Dagget has many characteristics that a typical woman would desire in a man. ... She is advocating for women's freedom through the death of her family, when Louisa comes to recognize the great path of independence, and becomes a strong symbol of the strength of a woman as she is able to thrive on her own. ... Both ideas would refute the stereotype that a woman was dependent on a man. ... When Joe walks into Louisa's house, "a little yellow canary that had been asleep in his green cage at the south window woke up and fluttered wildly, beating his little yellow...

• Word Count: 2223
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Being the central image of the whole story, the yellow wallpaper plays a very important role towards the understanding the narrator's conflict. The patterns on the yellow wallpaper are a visual representation of the narrator's mental state --- bizarre and confused. ... Firstly, the wallpaper is an interface between the narrator's world and the world of the creeping woman. ... The wallpaper might also be a symbol of the interface within Jane's mind. ... The overlapping interfaces in The Yellow Wallpaper add to the confusion and the complications in the book which are again a...

• Word Count: 1476
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During her childhood on the plantation, there was a black woman named Florence [who] was a mulatto, high yellow[and] she was the envy of all the women on the plantation (Moody 7-8). ... The status symbols, like clothes, watches and jewelry, all represent the desire that the black community has to be considered equal or similar to the white community. The more of these symbols acquired by black individuals, the more white they were considered so their status within the black community would raise. ... As she matures into a young woman in the late 1950s, the Civil Rights Movement was gaining mom...

• Word Count: 1441
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The first obvious and prominent symbol of the book is the "caged parrot" that seems to possess talent just like Mrs. ... Secondly, learning to swim is also used as a symbol of sanction and freedom. ... Edna is a married woman and a mother of two kids so the society expects her to act like a promising wife as well as a strong mother. ... Art becomes a symbol of freedom and expressiveness. ... Many animals have also been used as symbols. ...

• Word Count: 2043
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hedda Gabler being a play these objects are visible to the audience and the symbols give power to the delivery of the themes. ... Pistols are representative of masculine power, a phallic symbol which serves to link Hedda to her father and thus her past. ... (Act I, p295) Here the pistols are a symbol of Hedda's attempt to delay the inevitability of her middle class life. ... Hedda's concern for the passing of time and the inevitability of her situation is made visible from the outset of the play when she makes reference to the autumn leaves "The leaves, they"re so yellow and wi...

• Word Count: 2017
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mermaid-like and fantastical, Allende describes that "At birth Rosa was white and smooth, without a wrinkle, like a porcelain doll, with green hair and yellow eyes-- the most beautiful creature to be born on earth since the days of original sin . . . ... Rosa's unusual beauty is an element of the magical, and she is a direct symbol of the feminine "Green world,"" for even the color of her hair, green, suggests nature and fertility. ... Despite his strange enormous power (he has the power to even change the time of day), he covets and tries to woo a young exotically beautiful woman, wh...

• Word Count: 1940
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The colour used is warm and almost monochromatic (with warm browns, ochres and blacks being the main colours), with soft light falling on the faces of the mother and the old woman. ... It is not a portrait of particular people, but they are symbols of mankind. ... The figures are mostly painted in black (a symbol of mourning) and seem to merge together as one. ... The landscape is painted dull browns and yellows, whereas the clothing of the peasant women is painted using warm reds and blue-greens. ...

• Word Count: 1655
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate