Literary Research Analysis Essay/ Feminist Critique- The Yellow Wallpaper

Posted: April 6th, 2022

Your next major assignment is a literary research analysis essay is a feminist critique ( a study of women) of the narrator in the short story, The Yellow Wallpaper. You can either analyze the narrator against a theory you have devised or conduct a character analysis on her. You will also have to conduct research for this assignment. For instance, if you compose a character analysis of the narrator and argue that one of her character traits is obsessive compulsive behavior, determined, and narcissistic , then you will find an articles that describe what experts say about these character traits.

For example, your topic sentence may read: The narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper experiences mental anguish because she shows signs of having obssessive compulsive bahavior disorder. According to Dr. Goodspeed who works for The National Institute of Mental Health and has done extensive research on OCD says, “Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a common, chronic, and long-lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts” (par. 8). Students, for this assignment, you are required to have both in-text citations and a Works Cited papge. The word count for this essay is 750-1000 words, and the similarity indext cannot exceed 25%. You are required to use quotes from the short story to support your claims.