This mental illness would be diagnosed based upon her hostility, her criticism, her self-important image and her lack of empathy towards Jane. In fact, Aunt Reed was a candidate for mental insanity just by being herself. Studies by the American Psychological Association show that internal mindsets of an individual, such as hereditary disposition, has an influence on the development of insanity. Aunt Reed was born into a high class family, and when her brother married ‘beneath himself’, it disabled her to love Jane. Even in today’s society, children are judged based on the amount of money and the social status of their parents.
Cloudstreet a unfading literature piece that spans from 1943 - 1963. Australia during that time was Male dominated, women were undervalued and inferior because of their sexuality, they were constricted to the walls of their homes. Tim Winton how ever presents the women of the novel the ‘backbone’ in the hectic and shapeless lives of the two families, the Lambs and the Pickles. The women are responsible for the families function, and they cannot escape how they must take lead from the Men in the novel “ “there [is] something wrong with men. They lacked some basic thing.” Rose Pickles is a proud young woman, she is smart and witty but was forced to grow up too fast.
Cash had violated her aloneness, while Darl was deprived of the love that Addie poured so strongly into the void that was her third son. With Jewel’s introduction, the “wild blood” between the mother and her first- and second-born “boiled away” (AILD 176). Lastly, by Addie’s logic, Dewey Dell was only meant to “negative” the illegitimate son, and Vardaman only to “replace the child [she] had robbed him of” (AILD 176). Ultimately, three of the children were not hers, one was not his, and one was only good for filling the void left by Jewel. These devastating divides
In the times John Steinbeck lived in women were not held in high regard but they were just present to serve men. However, they still tried to yearn for a better future by exploiting men. The character Curley's wife in the novel is a victim of society and her dream. She is married to Curley who neglects her and so because of her loneliness she is always seeking attention. She wears too much makeup and dresses like a "whore"
O’Conner creates a crazy grandmother who unfortunately causes the bad situation. O’Conner creates a sick and dark character in “The Misfit”. “The Misfit” seems to be mentally ill seeing as everything he say contradicts his self. He is respectful however O’Conner’s readers never know if it is sarcastic or not. The grandmother tries to bring out the good in “The Misfit” to save her own life but it never comes.
I believe that what Milgrim did in his experiments were unethical to his naive subjects because he lied to them to get what he wanted, it caused them to have mental break downs when they left the test room, and because he abused the trust people have with scientists. What Milgrim did in his experiments was he would take random people from the town of New Haven and basically say to them that he
In desperate need to feel loved Crane sets out on a mission to be married. She later marries a man that she’s not really interested in only marrying him to gain popularity. While reading the story I could feel the pain and imagine how hard she struggled to feel accepted. As being the only darkest in my family I often struggle to be notice and accepted too. This novel to me is altogether depressing and very hard to read without crying.
Day after day she was forced to burden the cruel thoughts of others opinions of being inferior because she was a women and a women with her own thoughts at that. Taking place in 1630, societies thought upon women as the subsidiary sex and not respected in the way modern day women is. The job of a puritan women was limited, care for your house, your husband, and your children. If a women stepped out of those bounds her life became hard and wicked. The only women who were relieved of these bonds were widows who had the privilege of being able to sue or be sued, owning their own home or land and disciplining children and servants.
It represents imprisonment and this is made clear when the she says, “The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out”. (245) The imprisonment is created from the yellow wallpaper because the Jane repeatedly asks to remove it but isn’t allowed and she is confined to the room she despises due to the stubbornness seen from her husband. You can see Jane slowly descend into her madness with her hallucinations- “The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell." (248) “At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars!
Different from other women, who obey men and follow orders, Shelley represents Safie as a rebellious female figure in an attempt to convey her hostility toward sexism. Safie’s strength is shown when she disregards her father and escape to join Felix instead. Because of Safie’s mutinous characteristic, Safie is able to criticize a male dominant society where women’s rights are often neglected. Furthermore, Shelley argues that confinement is nauseating because it is a form of oppression toward women. Victor’s two years of alienation between himself and society during his process of creating the monster parallel the period of a woman’s confinement before labor.