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The Yellow Wallpaper can be said as a short story included in feminist literary works. At first, when I read this story I felt the narrator would tell one of the horror stories like in a horror film with haunted houses and the horrific things that happened around the house made the people in that house live miserably. But actually, the story goes far from what I imagined. This story is told from the first-person perspective. One thing to know is that the narrator doesn't have a name. I think the writer did this on purpose so that the narrator in the story could be anyone. She can be any woman in this world who faces the same condition. Because the author wrote this novel in a strong feminist tone, the narrator took the role of all women who suffered from unfair gender laws in that time period. I think this story is more seen as a story dealing with the psychological disorders of the narrator. The author wrote this story to stage back most women in general. The narrator of this ...

Like all great stories for children, The Secret Garden contains powerful truths just beneath the surface. There is always a level at which the story is telling children about more than just events; it is telling them about the nature of life.  It is a work of beauty, poetry, and deep mystery, and watching it is like entering for a time into a closed world where one's destiny may be discovered.   In this film, Holland has again made a film about a missing child, but this time her theme and her telling of it are in complete harmony. It is a beautiful, intelligent film; a fable, a lesson, and entrancing entertainment. From the character of Mary Lenox, we can see  the moral of this story is that anyone can change.  Mary Lennox is a young girl who was raised in India, becomes an orphan. She is initially an ill-tempered, self-absorbed child. Through fresh air, exercise, self-help, and the magic of the secret garden, she transforms into a healthy, robust, and caring child...

A Haunted House Virginia Woolf A.      Point Of View Based on my analysis of this story, the author uses many points of view. Because in the first paragraph, the pronoun of  ‘you’   can be defined by the second-person point of view. The use of the second-person pronoun  ‘you’  attempts to involve us in the narrator’s experiences, as if to suggest that we have all felt something similar to this, things on the margins of our conscious experience. But in a few paragraphs, there is also the use of the pronoun  ‘my’  and  ‘I’  which can be categorized as a first-person point of view, the use of the pronoun  ‘I’  is identified as a description of the character in the story, namely one of the couples who live in a haunted house, who often hears invisible whispers in the house that can be called a ghost couple.  Overall, in my opinion, the point of view used in this short story is Omniscient Limite...

In a creation, especially a story, whether a novel or a drama certainly has intrinsic elements, some of the important advantages in the story are the character and the theme of the story. Where the character has characterization characteristics. Williams's plays,  A Streetcar Named Desire , also has several characters that can be classified into their role in the story and the theme shows in the plays. This article focuses on character characterization and the theme appears in the story. Playwright Biography Tennessee Williams, original name Thomas Lanier Williams, (born March 26, 1911, Columbus, Miss., U.S.—died Feb. 25, 1983, New York City), was an American dramatist whose plays reveal a world of human frustration in which sex and violence underlie an atmosphere of romantic gentility. Williams became interested in playwriting while at the University of Missouri (Columbia) and Washington University (St. Louis) and worked at it even during the Depression while employed in a St...

Patriarchy A patriarchy, from the ancient Greek  patriarches , was a society where power was held by and passed down through the elder males. When modern historians and sociologists describe a "patriarchal society," they mean that men hold the positions of power and have more privilege: head of the family unit, leaders of social groups, a boss in the workplace, and heads of government. Feminist theorists have expanded the definition of patriarchal society to describe a systemic bias against women. As second-wave feminists examined society during the 1960s, they did observe households headed by women and female leaders. They were, of course, concerned with whether this was uncommon. More significant, however, was the way society  perceived  women in power as an exception to a collectively held view of women's "role" in society. Rather than saying that individual men oppressed women, most feminists saw that oppression of women came from the underlying bias o...

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is one of the feminist literary studies that was first published in 1892. The story is written like a kind of secret journal by the narrator. This story illustrates the development of the narrator's mental illness from the perspective of the first person in her journal. The narrator's identity is not revealed in the story, but she can be identified as a woman who is described as having a mental illness. John, the narrator's husband, described her mental illness as temporary nervous depression but she felt her illness was more serious. Despite the narrator's request, that she has a more serious illness, John refuses to change his treatment. The story begins with a mystery: the house seems to have  "something queer about it" . If we read further, it can be seen that the house is not the only strange thing in this story. John’s diagnosis and the women’s treatment It can be seen in the story, that th...