John (the narrator's physician husband) has diagnosed her with a nervous depression. ... The narrator states, "The most beautiful place, the rooms are on different floors and have different setups in every room" (705). ... The narrator has a big airy room on the top floor, which contains the yellow wallpaper. 3 The Yellow paper is a symbol of the narrator's sickness. Writing is also a symbol of forget ness. ... Night is also a symbol of sleep; to her daytime is the best time to sleep. ...

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Traditionally this symbol could represent a view of possibilities, or an opening to another world', but in this instance it also becomes a view to what she does not want to see. Through this symbol, she sees all that she could be and everything that she could have. ... She will still be forced to creep about the room. More immediate to facilitating her metamorphosis than the house itself is the room she is in, specifically the characteristics of that room, the most important being the yellow wall-paper which also plays a double role; it has the ability to trap her in with its intrica...

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The mind and heart are fragile items to toy with. ... Both are symbols showing the inner feeling of the women portrayed. ... In the end she got what she wanted, but it came with a heavy price. ... The room became a symbol of her oppression, try as she may, she can not leave it. ... In "The Story of an Hour" the view from the window portrayed her release and freedom. ...

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In marriage the husband could be viewed as the warden and the wife as the inmate. ... The wife is a creative spirit with her own ideas and thoughts, which she tries on numerous occasions to express to the husband only for him to view the ideas as insignificant and reply "blessed little goose." ... "I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. ... Later, she begins to see a womanly figure amidst the symbols and designs; soon the figure emerges to be a woman trapped behind bars. ... "It is so pleasant to be out in this great room and creep around as I please." ...

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While the sheriff and other men are looking in the room upstairs for some evidence of a crime, Mrs. ... This is suggested by what happened with the canary. ... Peters is viewed only as a sheriff's wife; Mr. ... Another symbol in this short story is the quilt, a symbol of creating a home and of feeling warm. ... These two women also were treated as property, which men own along with the house and land. ...

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Though the play is set in the 19th century, when Ruhl wrote the play, she came in with the mindset of a "contemporary woman writing with subsequent knowledge that informed her view of the periodIn some ways, people then were innocent of sexuality compared to the biological knowledge we've acquired about the subject since.... In the absence of this connection with the doctor, she runs to Leo Irving and decides she is in love with him. ... Rather, she escapes to the garden, which is a symbol of eroticism and sexual awakening throughout the play. ... By contrast, after walking with Anni...

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It is nailed to the floor, with no way to get around it. ... Another symbol in this story is the yellow wallpaper from which the title is taken. ... She becomes obsessed with the wallpaper, and then with the actions of the women she sees in the wallpaper. ... She has no freedom, and she certainly does not choose to be kept in one room, basically hospitalized. ... Life just happens to her the way it is "supposed to" and for that reason we can conclude that the story is based on naturalistic views. ...

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At the time of the play's debut, it was mainly viewed as an advocate to the Women's Rights Movement. ... Once Torvald leaves the room, Nora says, pale with terror, "Hurt my children-! ... At the time of its debut, Ibsen's play was widely viewed as a play dealing with the current issue of woman's rights. ... Nora's exit form her "Doll's House" became a symbol for women everywhere. ... How is that a symbol for women's rights? ...

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Morel, is his "soul" support and is the most important person in Paul's life, but appears to be viewed as her husband's property". ... Because according to the habits, woman must go out when man counted money in the room. ... She put her children at arms, projected her own ideal and life view on her children, and hoped so as to fill the feelings of vacuum. ... But in reality there was no such room for her to exist; what she had was just the freedom of imagine. ... Paul was a pure male chauvinism, so he never took the status of women into account, even if he thought about it, it was f...

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Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century perpetuated this view. ... They could only attend the master's schools for boys when there was room. ... The view of equality began taking hold of the public mind. ... She viewed her marriage to Leonce as an accident of fate. ... Though never voiced, she was viewed as a possession. ...

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This scene is visually impressive, with girls in glittery costumes shown as "props- in a circus, which is what the song is about. ... The way the narrative jumps from the normal court room to a court room full of dancers and show girls is effective because it shows to the audience the kind of man Billy Flynn is by viewing him clearly seeing everything as a show. ... Overall, the musical numbers such as Cell Block Tango' encourage the audience to view the women as being powerful because they are represented as unremorseful. ... In this scene of meeting Amos, he is positioned in a very ...

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She feels depressed with the society around her. ... When Clarissa returns home to the small attic room she is secluded and lonely. She thinks of her experiences with Sally with whom she had been intimately involved. ... She is viewed from many angles. ... He also refers to nature, a typically female symbol as filling the vacuum up with sex and "refined pleasures" (Shaw,2000 P. 8.) ...

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• Grade Level: High School