Suu Kyi, in her feministic speech, Keynote emphasizes of the uneven distribution of power between the genders through a personal anecdote, “Last Month, I was released from almost six years of house arrest”. She positions herself in a dire situation as her experiences with sexual discrimination within Burma have awakened herself in representing the women community. The responders will become sympathetic towards Suu Kyi, hence, being emotionally attached and intrigued. Margaret Atwood utillises pathos in regards to humour unlike the compassion generated in Keynote in order to reinforce the fact that the portrayal on women in literature is mistreated. She mocks the nonsense remarks towards her literature through the biblical allusion, “this is a matter which should more properly be taken up with god”, emphasizing how it is a matter outside the range of power.
The Yellow Wallpaper: An Argumentative Essay on Why the Narrator Would Have Gone Insane Eventually Without Treatment In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator speaks in first person. She is also the protagonist of the story and is diagnosed with temporary nervous depression, which is actually postpartum depression. The setting is in the country around the early 1900's. The house they are renting is a colonial mansion that has not all been kept up. She is a very repressed woman by very domineering her husband.
No one could refuse the one in life. The one helps the women get out of the routine life, remind her of how gorgeous and wise she is, how much essential she is to one’s life. Her forgone vibrant days come back. Women who have affair are suffering from being talked and despised, and the women in a family which her husband has betrayed her, they may suffer more. One morning in 1998 in White House，Hillary Clinton woke up and told
Merely Teasing Charlotte Gilman’s story “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” both demonstrate how society, at the turn of the century, seemed to make women feel enclosed or trapped. The narrator in “Yellow Wallpaper” and the main character in Chopin’s story, Louise Mallard share many of the same desires and characteristics. Their desire to get out and be independent eventually gets them punished. In both stories, it is clear that the narrator or character is a female. From the way the narrator talks in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” describing her husband and house and the decorations, it is obvious she is a female.
The husband tries to reach his wife but the door has been locked. After many moments of panic, John gets the door open and sees this constant action his wife keeps doing. Shocked, John faints and his wife comments about having to step over his body. One can argue that being confined for so long and limited to her usual rituals, the narrator has come across schizophrenia. After John is questioning her action the narrator states, “I’ve got out at last, said I, in spite of you and Jane.
Women of the time were forced into settings they loathed, which is where the narrator finds herself day after day. Gilman uses the old room and its surroundings as a symbol for her helplessness and sorrow; the suffer feels run down, much life the old mansion. Ironically, all those around the narrator keep throwing her into the room and it only makes her worse; eventually making her want to jump out the barred windows. Much has changed in the treatment of depressed women, “Yellow Wall paper” serve as good documentation of past
The only way that he would write stories is if his experiences in life left behind an emotional scar. Maryann Burk Carver, wife of Raymond Carver was his supporter and mother of his two children at a young age. In “Raymond Carver Life and Stories” written by Stephen King, Carvers life becomes open and evaluated within the public eye. Maryann had a “tipsy flirtation” at a party in 1975 where Carver’s alcoholism had taken full effect. Carver’s aggression grew wild in those years almost killing her when he hit her with a wine bottle across her head (King 2009).Carver’s alcoholism years only became worse after this incident with his wife.
His mother, who was caring mother who had protected the young Hitler from brutal father, influenced Hitler’s views about women. Because of his mother, Hitler thought that the only role for woman was domestic; these views were expressed in “Mein Kampf”. Women in Nazi Germany after marriage were expected to leave their job, however in 1937 as Germany prepared for war, women were needed to supplement the male workforce. Hitler believes that women were kinder, gentler than men. Slogan for woman in Nazi was: Kinder, Kirche, Kuche (children, church and cooking) .
Analytical paper # 2 Due: October 24, 2012 “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the story of a young woman whose creative appeal and self-expression are suppressed by her society and her marriage. The short story is told by the narrator through her diary, which she describes as an exemption of her thoughts. The narrator is apparently artistic and creative as can be seen through her animated descriptions of the house her husband John has rented. The narrator includes representations of the yellow wallpaper in the upstairs nursery where she and her husband sleep at night. The wallpaper is used characterically to reflect the marriage the narrator finds herself ambushed inside.
Although many women of this era quietly took their place in society as expected it is very likely that they too went through an internal struggle with this shift in their role from innocent child to a subservient housewife. The symbol of the husband’s hand in this story represents this nameless woman as well as countless other women of her time and their struggle with male dominance as they transition into society’s version of a good wife. The wife first notices the hand as her new husband is sleeping on her shoulder and it seems to symbolize a trophy as she recounts all the things she admires about him in a child like manor, “To meet a handsome, blonde young man, recently widowed, good at tennis and rowing”. To her this hand represents the fairy tale of marriage dreamed of by many young girls. This phase is what most people refer to as the honeymoon phase.