The narrator seeks out escape through the yellow wallpaper on the walls of the room. ... Quawas states that this woman who is trapped within the wallpaper is not only a symbol of the narrator's entrapment due to her husband's overbearing, patriarchal superiority granted to him by his societal role, it is also a symbol of all Victorian women who were "bound and inhibited by a society that insisted that women were childlike and incapable of self-actualization"(Quawas). ... Beside exposing the oppression and entrapment caused by the inflexibility of Victorian gender roles, the...

• Word Count: 1068
• Approx Pages: 4
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In addition, setting is a strategy for the author to introduce symbols in the text, symbols that are not obvious to decipher at the first read. ... These symbols represent Gilman's view on the status of women in the patriarchal society of the nineteenth century. ... The text is very descriptive and loaded with symbols. The author takes the opportunity to relate elements of setting with symbols and meanings beyond the first reading's impressions. ... The unclean yellow of the wallpaper is "strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight" (154); it is a "repellent, almost revolting" yello...

• Word Count: 2394
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Madness: The True Sanity in ˜The Yellow Wallpaper' " Ellie McGuire 4/11/14 "The Yellow Wallpaper " by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story depicting a woman's dissent into madness. Gilman recounts the experiences of a woman who is suffering from postpartum depression while being treated with the same methods prescribed by famous 19th century physician, S. ... Within "The Yellow Wallpaper, " the narrator's descent into madness is a higher form of sanity as she rejects and escapes the insane society that imprisons her. ... The first journal entries made by th...

• Word Count: 1676
• Approx Pages: 7
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• 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: 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 flattening of the plane conceals the true identity of the yellow square section to the right of the main figure. Dali's painting also has a small yellow and blue section, but it is quite clear that the area is a ribbon of sky above the horizon. ... One man, who speculatively can be middle-aged Dali, is holding a lion - symbol of desire - and putting his right hand in the lion's mouth as if to say he is happily feeding his desires. ... This angle is supported by the presence of the woman-jug image in the far left corner of Dali's painting. ... This jug-woman must represent se...

• Word Count: 2118
• Approx Pages: 8
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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
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• 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

Life-in-Death is a woman that's described as having skin "as white as leprosyWho thicks man's blood with cold" (3.45). ... In "Slavery and the Romantic Imagination," author Debbie Lee states: "In The Ancient Mariner's diseased climate, then, it is not just the albatross murder that prompts the crew to hang the bird around the mariner's neck as a symbol of guilt and death. ... Indeed, the way the crewmen die is described with symptoms of severe dehydration commonly seen in that of someone suffering from yellow fever, which is yet another feature that...

• Word Count: 1986
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When Hawthorne was four years old, his father, who was a sea captain (also named Nathaniel), died of yellow fever. ... In 1838, Hawthorne met Sophia Peabody, a young woman who shared his shy and quiet nature. ... His deep infatuation with these themes is strongly evident in his most famous novel; The Scarlet Letter, which tells the tale of a young woman who commits adultery and is persecuted by her Puritan community for committing such an immoral sin. Additionally, as punishment for her adulterous crime she is forced to don a Scarlett "A" on her clothing as a constant reminder and sy...

• Word Count: 1129
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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

Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor ...

• Word Count: 9463
• Approx Pages: 38
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate