"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, deals with a wife and husband and their new room
Michael Mayfield Ms. Amanda Blalock AP English IV 1/18/12 The Yellow Wall-paper The “Yellow Wallpaper”, a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, deals with a wife and husband and their new room that is covered in dingy yellow wall-paper. It becomes evident that when the yellow wall-paper finally meets its demise, the narrator’s sanity ends. At the beginning it can be quickly seen that the narrator is not “normal”: she is moved to a room where the “windows are barred” forced to sleep in a “great immovable bed [that] is nailed down” and is constantly called a “nervous patient” by her husband John. Which leads one to believe that she is a patient of Dr. John in what is possibly a mental institution. Inside of this room the wall-paper is described as “irritating” with a “provoking formless sort of figure”. This hints at the narrator and her “imaginative power” which should be categorized as the beginning stages of dementia. This undiagnosed case of potential dementia is only reinforced to be true by the narrator’s interaction with the “horrid wall-paper”. She is constantly observing a woman within the wall-paper that “shakes the pattern” in what seems like to be an attempt to escape much like how the narrator wants to escape her confinement in the nursery room. During her studies of the wall-paper
Symbolism in Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl
9/13/12 Symbolism in “The Shawl” In “The Shawl”, in order to catch the readers’ attention Cynthia Ozick uses descriptive details. Describing the horror of the Nazis. The story is set in a concentration camp. The three main characters are Rosa, Stella and Magda. The plot of the story surrounds a magical shawl. The only thing keeping these three starving women alive is the magical shawl and eventually leads to their demise. The way Ozick uses symbolism is very important to the story. The author uses symbolism to help the reader envision the setting. In the beginning of the story, Ozick refers to the Magda as, "someone who is already a floating angel" (223). Ozick refers to Magda as an angel throughout the story, "smooth feathers of hair nearly as yellow as the Star sewn into Rosa's coat" (223). Also, the talks of the shawl as the "milk of linen" (223). Outside of the steel fences of the concentration camp, "there were green meadows speckled with dandelions and deep-colored violets: beyond them even father, innocent tiger lilies, tall, lifting their orange bonnets" (225). Past the steel fence were beauty or maybe heaven, anything but the poor conditions of the death camp. Out of the three characters in “The Shawl”, Stella is a flat character. She is only part of the story to allow the author to reach the climax. Coming when Stella becomes cold, and takes the
norman maccaig starter for an essay
Hotel Room 12th Floor by Norman MacCaig. This poem is by a 20th century poet, Norman MacCaig. This piece of MacCaig's work is about a man who is watching the surrounding incidents happen around him as he looks down at the
