The color yellow is "repellent, almost revolting" a symbol of hatred to the narrator; rather too most people it symbolizes the sun, or happy thoughts (706). ... The narrator develops a sense that a woman lives in the yellow wallpaper. She explains that the woman creeps around in the day. ... 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. ...

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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...

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The narrator is a married woman who wants to do something important with her life. ... Another symbol in this story is the yellow wallpaper from which the title is taken. ... They stand for every woman who feels confined to the wants of a man; every woman who waits for her husband to leave for work so she can relax and enjoy her freedom. ... "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a primarily naturalistic story. ... Like the woman in the story, she was treated by a doctor who prescribed total bed rest, confinement, and seclusion to treat a woman's "illness." ...

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"The Yellow Wallpaper"" is about a woman that suffers from a mental illness and is kept in a room with only a bed and her own thoughts, which ultimately lead to her mental downfall. In this short story, the author uses the yellow wallpaper as a prominent symbol to represent the web of restraints that affected so many women in that time era. ... Gilman builds the majority of this story on the yellow wallpaper that stands as a symbol for the many struggles that a women in that day and age had to deal with. ... After further investigation of this yellow wallpaper, Jane claims to have seen a woma...

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In the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, symbolism plays a large factor. ... At first she hates it because it lacks definition and is, in her eyes, an horrid yellow color. ... The wallpaper symbolizes this woman's mind. ... This is the most powerful symbol in the story. By tearing down the paper, the woman has finally broken free of her confines. ...

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It is customary to find the symbol of the house as representing a secure place for a woman's transformation and her release of self expression. ... It does not take the form of the traditional symbol of security for the domestic activities of a woman, but it does allow for and contain her metamorphosis. ... As she says near the end of the story, "I think that woman gets out in the daytime! ... It is the same woman, I know, for she always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight... Gilman's complexity of symbols used in The Yellow Wall-Paper creates a portrayal of the oppr...

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The Yellow Wall-Paper In the nineteenth century, women were repressed and controlled by their husbands and male influences The narrator of the story is repressed and represents the oppression of women in society. A house is normally a symbol of a secure place for a woman, but this house is not her own and she does not want to be in it. The house does not represent the traditional symbol of security for the domestic activities of a woman. ... Strong dominate male and submissive female Pulling the wallpaper down was a symbol of feminism being released from bondage. Woman is suf...

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After she settles in the new house, the yellow wallpaper starts to bother her, which is a key turning point in this woman's life. ... The underlying symbol of the yellow wallpaper is the main character's sanity. ... At the end of the story, the main character rips down the yellow wallpaper to release the woman behind the paper. This was symbolic because even though she saw a woman, this woman was her. ... This woman is full on crazy now. ...

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The central symbol is the yellow wallpaper, I believe Gilman was trying to use the woman stuck in the wallpaper to symbolize the social position women played in society at the time. ... The character of Jennie, I believe is the typical perfect woman for the time this story takes place in. ... The narrator sees her as a perfect woman and wonders why she can't be like Jennie. ...

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The Yellow Wallpaper is of a woman, a new mother, who has been brought to a country house for a "rest-cure" (upon medical advice) by her husband; he selects for her the room with the yellow wallpaper, the nursery, in which the "windows are barred for little children" and the bed has been nailed to the floor. ... She obsesses about the yellow wallpaper, in which she sees frightful patterns and an imprisoned female figure trying to emerge. ... She comes to believe that the woman in the wallpaper is shaking the pattern, trying to escape, and then later becomes obsessed with rescuing the same w...

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This left the woman to become dependent and therefore inferior. In "The Yellow Wall-Paper" the author Charlotte Gilman vividly writes the effects of oppression on women. ... "The Yellow Wall-Paper" is about a woman's' perception of the control men have and the unwillingness for one woman to give into the male patriarchy. ... Later, she begins to see a womanly figure amidst the symbols and designs; soon the figure emerges to be a woman trapped behind bars. This imagery the wife sees can be applied to herself as a woman trapped behind the male superiority. ...

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Gatsby is obsessed with a woman who lives across the lake, in East Egg; the woman is an old love of Gatsby's and also Nick's cousin. The woman's name is Daisy Buchanan and has no idea that Gatsby lives across the lake. ... There are many symbols that F. ... Another important symbol that F. ... They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose" (27). ...

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Both are symbols showing the inner feeling of the women portrayed. In "The Yellow Wallpaper", Gilman writes about how the woman loathed the wallpaper. ... In "The Yellow Wallpaper", Gilman conveyed that love was enough for the woman to not fight back about the room she was in. ... The room which the woman stayed most of her days in "The Yellow Wallpaper" was her demise. ... In "The Yellow Wallpaper", the woman in the second layer of the wallpaper was herself. ...

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The colors are used very frequently as symbols, and the different shades create atmosphere in different scenes of the book. ... Yellow illustrates the downfall of moral standards of the people of West Egg. ... But no one knows the woman's name, and no one cares." Yellow stands out as a symbol of corruption and decay. ... The most important symbol, however, is Gatsby's car. ...

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This signifies a symbol of the life and freedom she once had... " The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is about a woman who is suffering from temporary nervous depression. ... She says the figure is " like a woman stooping down and creeping about." ... One of the strongest images in the "The Yellow Wallpaper", is the paper's pattern, which seems to change with different lightning. ... Another symbol is the paper's odor. ...

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"And from the red, blue or yellow gloom of the throat emerged a straight bar, rough with gold dust and slightly clubbed at the end." - it is rather a description not an exact symbol, but nevertheless phallic, it has even oral connotations. ... "Or falling into a raindrop, it expanded with such an intensity of red, blue and yellow the thin walls of water that one expected them to burst and disappear." ... In all the cases the snail symbolizes the woman and bears the pronouns, it and its. ... The woman does everything, but useless, the leaf remains dead. ... In the last paragraph the two level...

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Formalistic Criticism for "Revelation" Formalistic critics often analyze stories by showing the relationship between various elements" meanings such as: plot, characters, point of view, setting tone, diction, images, and symbols. ... Turpin sees "a woman with a yellow sweatshirt and wine-colored slacks, both gritty-looking, and the rims of her lips were stained with snuff. Her dirty yellow hair was tied behind with a little piece of red paper ribbon. ... Formalistic critics could also talk about O" Connor's use of vivid details, diction, the plot, images, and symbols. ...

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In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses many clear symbols to help portray the corruption of the American dream. ... It is a cream color but it evolves into a yellow instrument of death and destruction used to try to fix their vain attempts at love The Symbol I). ... White represents purity and innocence, like an egg she is white on the outside and yellow(representing sins)on the inside. Daisy is pure her actions confirm otherwise, she is a big fazade (The Symbol I). ... (Donaldson 9) Myrtle Wilson is a woman from the middle class; she is Tom's mistress. ...

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The most important two colors in the novel are green and yellow or gold. ... If we read the novel we notice that a lot of the things Gatsby owns is yellow or gold on the outside, like his car or his golden toilet set etc. but we now that it is all fake because it is only the things he owns that look yellow or gold. ... An other color that has the same meaning as gold or yellow in this book is silver. ... The green light is a symbol for a reunion with Daisy for Gatsby. ... It shows that Daisy is a very innocent woman that does not have any mean intentions and does never mean to cause harm as lo...

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However, these symbols are not as good as the real thing. ... In Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator's only triumph from an oppressive society is to become insane. ... A decision made by a woman, how scandalous! ... If a woman starts to write or read, it is considered that the woman is straying away from God. ... The only place she finds amusement is the hideous yellow wallpaper. ...

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"A Worn Path" is referring to the long and hard path taken by the African-American woman during the entirety of the story. ... Phoenix then proceeds to talk to a particular woman who is there and receives some more medication for her grandson, ""All right." ... Phoenix may be a symbol herself. ... Welty uses a worn path for the symbol of her story for two reasons. ... The symbols reinforce an everyday life theme that many of need to be reminded of. ...

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I view that oval as a symbol of salvation and safeness. ... There is an iconic background behind the woman. Yellow rays are drawn on a grayish-blue surface of the "icon" which represents the light that she has discovered in her life by being free and independent. ... That icon is a symbol of collective cultural unity, ancient wisdom and loving motherhood. The image of that woman brings their people together. ...

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This painting in its simplest form is one which is focused on a veiled woman in white being elevated towards the sky. Below the woman are twelve men, seven of which are looking up to her and the other five men have their glance directed downwards. Surrounding the woman on either side are a series of angels with their hand clasped and their heads bowed towards the woman. ... One of many symbols that were used was the painting of Jesus" crucifixion with Mary and John beneath Him. ... Gold or yellow is colour that is seen continually throughout this painting and ties all the elements together...

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The painting includes many symbols: the circle of pi which symbolizes the universe, the butterfly representing change and joy, the red square with the Chinese symbol for female, and the main focal point being the Goddess of creation, Nu-Wa. ... The overall tone of colors in the painting seem to be of dark and dull shades of blue, but there are clear and bold colors of red and yellow. ... This painting depicts a woman and a symbol planted in the middle of her chest. The overall tone of the painting is black and white but the symbol is clear in a bold red square. The symbol shows a vase, and on ...

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In his story "The Chrysanthemums", written in 1938, Steinbeck introduces us with a woman, named Elisa, who is trying to gain power in a man's world. Elisa Allen tries to define her role as a woman in a very close society. ... The symbols in setting and characters show us the scope and nature of this empty society, and the chrysanthemums portray Elisa's existence and emptiness of her life. ... The Japanese still hold the chrysanthemum as a symbol of the sun, and they consider the orderly unfolding of the mum's petals to be a symbol of perfection. ... Color Messages While chr...

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