Compare And Contrast The Yellow Wallpaper And The Saboteur

“Saboteur”, written by Ha Jin exposes a difficult period in post-revolutionary China and the negative consequences on people’s lives. Mr. Chiu, a scholar who does not view himself as a common citizen, was wrongfully arrested while on honeymoon with his bride. As an egotistical man who thinks he is above everyone else, Mr. Chiu is arrogant and never takes ownership for his actions. This machoism subjects Mr. Chui to maltreatment from the police that ironically transforms the once seemingly innocent Mr. Chiu to a man consumed by vengeance. Ha Jin’s proficient use of ironic tone and conflict told through the omniscient view of his main character reinforces the story’s main theme: life experiences shape our character and have the power to transform us into a person we despise.

“Mr. Chiu got to his feet and said out loud, Comrade policeman why did you do this” (Jin 469)? He is extremely angry and upset. The stout policeman acts as if he has no idea of what he did to Mr. and Mrs. Chiu. Mr. Chiu explains to the officer that he threw hot tea on his feet and on his wife. The officer tells Mr. Chiu he is lying and says “You wet your shoes yourself” (Jin 469).

Before Mr Chiu is arrested by police from Muji city, he displays a distinctly right minded characteristic. When the police officers throws tea cup to them, even though it is understandable to be mad considering the circumstance, demands an apology in a polite manner: “Comrade Policemen, your duty is to keep order … Why violate the law you are suppose to enforce?”(HaJin 185). However, Mr Chiu gets arrested in front of his wife in his last day of his honeymoon trip as a result. Not only he acts in a righteous way, he is very considerate to his wife: “Don’t wait for me here … to get me

The three stories to be discussed in this essay are “The Bouquet” by Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and “Gimpel the Fool” by Isaac Bashevis Singer. It’s interesting to dissect these pieces of literature to see how they reflect the time period they were written in, by whom they were written, and if the stories they read have any abnormalities outside what is expected. So first up is “The Bouquet”; I sympathized mainly for the young girl named Sophie. Society’s faults stunted her growth as an individual, and kept her from bonding with those she desired relations.

The success of “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Jekyll and Hyde is due to its psychological effects brought upon their main characters, due to their doppelganger. The Yellow Wallpaper and Jekyll and Hyde are two different short stories that were both written during the 19th century, which both have a similar style in which they convey a message relating to the norms during that era. The comparison between the main characters and their doppelgangers are raised by creating conflict between the two characters. The woman in the wallpaper from The Yellow Wallpaper and Hyde from Jekyll and Hyde have a psychological effect on the main characters particularly by creating havoc and aid, but affecting them in a different way. Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Louise Stevenson use the doppelgangers of the main character in order to create havoc

"The Story of an Hour ' ' by Kate Chopin and "The Yellow Wallpaper ' ' by Charlottle Perkins Gilman are short stories about women in the late 1800 's. In "The Story of an Hour" the woman is living in the city, her husband has gone off to work, she has a heart condition, and she has believed he was dead. The husband appears and she dies because her chance at freedom is lost. While "The Yellow Wallpaper" is in a country house on vacation. She is forced to play sick and is told she must rest by her husband and doctor. As a result she moves into madness believing the wallpaper has come alive.

In Jin Ha’s short story “Saboteur”, a man named Mr. Chiu is wrongfully accused of a crime he did not commit and is unreasonably punished. He is imprisoned unjustly and is forced to admit his wrongdoing, but he maintains his innocence and refuses to take part in the police department’s deceit. Eventually the police department’s lies and cruelty drives Mr. Chiu to seek revenge. Ha develops characterization through the use of methods of characterization, character traits, and the significance of the character 's traits to illustrate how the abuse of political power ultimately leads to the deterioration of humanity in a person. Ha utilizes the method of characterization to demonstrate how the abuse of political power leads to insurgence.

Although each story takes place in different settings, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Trifles by Susan Glaspell, both illustrate the traditional role of women during that era. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator introduces us to a wife, a submissive patient of her husband the doctor, who is being treated for a nervous disorder. Because of this she must follow a very strict seclusion treatment, severely limiting her ability to do anything but stay isolated in a room. This new environment becomes her obsession; her focus turns to freeing a woman she feels is trapped in the wallpaper, which I feel is symbolism for the way she feels trapped in her own mental and physical world. In the story Trifles, the women are brought to a crime scene for what the men feel is an insignificant purpose of gathering some belongs to bring to Minnie Foster.

In The Yellow Wallpaper, the woman trapped in the wallpaper often reflects the narrator’s thoughts and actions. Both the narrator and the woman are trapped in their surroundings. The only person in The Yellow Wallpaper that sees the woman is the narrator herself. John, the narrator’s husband, wishes that she becomes better and does not want to change the room she is staying in. Finally, the narrator wishes to be free.

The story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” is Charlotte Gilman’s interpretation of how women were treated and were thought that they were only useful in the home. The story follows the first person point of view of a woman who is struggling to break free from the irrational labels of being a woman that her husband is attempting to force upon her. The narrator dreams of being able to write freely and leave her home to be in the world she sees outside her window. However, John, the husband, convinces her that she has nervous depression, and that she is unable to leave the house until she is better. John, being a physician, believes that he knows exactly how her nervousness affects her and convinces himself and his wife that it is better for her to stay in the home until she is not “sick” any longer.

You can compare and contrast items you come across in life. Movies, stories, and even people can be compared. The story "The Most Dangerous Game", which is written by Richard Connell, and the movie High Noon, which is written by Carl Foreman, can be compared and contrasted in multiple ways. High Noon is a movie about a sheriff being hunted down by a murderer that he sent to jail. He was released and plans to hold up his promise of coming back to kill the sheriff.

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator is suffering from postpartum depression. The narrator 's husband John, who also happens to be her physician, prescribes the rest cure to help lift his wife of her depressive state and ultimately heal her depression. However, the rest cure does not allow the narrator to experience any mental stimulation. Therefore, to manage her boredom the narrator begins obsessing over the pattern of the yellow wallpaper. After analyzing the pattern for awhile, the narrator witnesses a woman trapped behind bars.

Charlotte Gilman’s short story, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, (1899) is a text that describes how suppression of women and their confinement in domestic sphere leads to descend into insanity for escape. The story is written as diary entries of the protagonist, who is living with her husband in an old mansion for the summer. The protagonist, who remains unnamed, is suffering from post-partum depression after the birth of her child and is on ‘rest’ cure by her physician husband. In this paper, I will try to prove that ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ acts as a subversive text by portraying the protagonist’s “descent into madness” as a result of the suppression that women faced in Victorian period.

The short stories “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Five-Twenty” by Patrick White address the importance of escaping unhealthy relationships in order to be recognized as self-sufficient and (…). The plot lines of both follow a common theme (of what), in which the characters must escape oppressive relationships with their husbands. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman the female protagonist begins to lose her mind because John traps her in a secluded mansion in the countryside to help her, using the old-fashioned method called the “rest cure” (from a mental disorder that he has diagnosed himself). Not only is she living far from any city life but, she is also isolated from her own friends and family; John her husband, never lets her see

In the late 19th century, women were not treated equally by men and they played a different role in society than what they do today. There are many stories that can help us depict somewhat of what life was like in that time period using a literary device known as realism. Realism is correctly portrayed in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, written by Charlotte Perkins, and “The Story of an Hour”, written by Kate Chopin, which depict real life situations and reality. In both of these short stories, the women are both tied down by their husbands, and their thoughts and ideas are considered to be absurd by men. Also, the authors use these stories to describe scenarios that they once found themselves in.