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A 4 page paper which examines the influence or pressure that society and family can make on an individual’s identity as it relates to several literary works. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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to the human condition. The human condition is something that is incredibly complex and as such comprised of many different possibilities and perspectives. The following paper examines how the pressures
that come from society or family are often very influential on a persons individuality. The works examined are Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper, Langston Hughes poem A Dream Deferred,
Shakespeares Hamlet, Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, and The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. The Pressures of Society/Family on Individualism Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper is
clearly a story about a woman who is suppressed and controlled by her family as well as society. In this story the main character is forced to go to the
country to rest because her husband, a physician, believes that she needs rest while she knows that she is sick but it is not a normal male sickness, bur rather
a sickness that affects women who are ultimately suppressed and oppressed by society. In her story her husband is clearly representative of society, a society that insists women not strain
themselves because they are supposedly rather simple. The narrator informs the reader that her husband believes she should sit and literally do nothing, not strain her intellect, and just rest.
She states, "Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good" (Gilman). By the end of her story she has gone insane, because her
identity was thwarted and suppressed by society and her husband. She was made to sit and be still and this led to her losing her mind. One could well argue
that this is not dissimilar to the story of The Fight Club and the narrator within that particular story. While his pressure did not come from family, it came from
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