She believes she is trapped in the wallpaper and must escape its holds. No one could see that the narrator is completely unstable because she is withdrawn from everyone as an effect of her depression. By the time the husband notices her state of mind, it is too late. The narrator is mentally gone and stuns the husband. As the husband faints, Jane is too withdrawn to respond; therefore, she continues her routine although her husband’s body is lying in the way.
On the contrary, in “A Sorrowful Woman”, the main character is a mother who has come to despise her family and her duties. Over time she progressively worsens until she can no longer bear to see her husband and child, and in the end she kills herself. Just from that short summary of the two, it is clear to see that one is more sophisticated and complicated than the other. One author creates a solution that comes quickly with few obstacles and ends in a rather fairy-tale like, unrealistic way while another introduces a rarely spoken about problem that consistently
The Puritans’ disgusting looks and hurtful words continually remind Hester of her sinful actions. Hester is originally tortured by the constant mental burden that the townspeople, her own daughter, and the scarlet letter enforce. The weight of her sin affects her physically and mentally. After seven years of punishment, her beauty and warmth have disappeared. Hawthorne writes, “her beauty, the warmth and richness of her womanhood, departed, like fading sunshine; and a gray shadow seemed to fall across her” (478).
The couple leave bitterly, creating an awkward vibe in the environment which greatly disturbs Marion. The audience can see this when the story describes how she “...cant stand shocks. That kind of people make her really physically sick” (214). The rest of the scene, Charlie tries to comfort her about everything, but the incident disturbed her so much that she changes her mind about letting Honoria go back with
Grace has painfully explains how she has to go through the ordeals of constantly changing the house which also affects her study; all these due to the sickness of her mother. She narrates, “Some of our neighbors often tell me to keep my mother controlled. Some other people supported me; what mistake did I do in order to get abused by other people. The neighbors belong to a different caste and creed. They find it difficult to accept the wrong-doings of my mother”.
But now, Siew Ling was not only affected by mentally. She was verbally, physically and sexually abuse by her husband. To overcome this Siew Ling tries to leave her husband but that time she was fully dependent on her husband. This happened because, she does not have any paper qualification as known as certificate to find a proper job to protect her financially. This situation made Siew Ling to learned helplessness even though she has solution to move on.
The Tudors is a historical fiction show about the rule of Henry the 8th and his six wives. Whenever Henry decided that he did not love his current wife and no longer wanted to be married to her, he would blame others for their failing marriage and unhappiness. For instance, Henry was madly in love with his second wife, Anne Boleyn. However, when she miscarried their son and the child turned out to be deformed, he decided to blame her for their deteriorating marriage, and their malformed, miscarried son. He even put some of the blame on God by claiming God was punishing him for getting a divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.
The Oppression of Women Rosa Parks once said, “There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.” Literature often reflects such oppression and how it can lead to despair in the characters’ lives. For example, the lives of Jane in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Mrs. Mallard in “The Story of an Hour,” and Miss Emily in “A Rose for Emily,” prove that an overwhelming amount of oppression can affect a person’s mental state. A woman in each of these stories struggles due to the oppression from which she suffers at the hands of either her husband or her father. Jane, in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” falls under the oppression of her husband.
The story "The yellow wall-paper" briefly described the theme of gender inequality by telling us how did a normal female patient become crazy.In this story, the narrator has to follow the decisions which are all made by his husband, this makes her felt confusing and upset.Her husband has never listened to her ideas because he thinks that she has already had some kind of mental disease.The gender inequality problem and the conflicts come with it directly caused the madness of the narrator. Meanwhile, the conflicts between the narrator and herself, like she always tells herself that “John is professional in curing patients, he must be right”, and also the conflict between her husband and herself, like John often ignores her feelings, both perfectly illustrate the idea of “gender inequality”.Three of the main ideas will
Her husband does not understand her feelings and grows her sense of alienation and isolation and consequently, she kills him in a fit of insane fury. In the novel the protagonist Maya receives hostility and indifferences rather than delicacy and affection. In this novel Desai presents the silence, solitude, melancholy and dark world